Tom Horton

What was Chesapeake Bay like when I was a kid more than six decades ago?

“America needs more people. Americans no longer make enough babies to maintain the country’s population.” This from a New York Times editorial published in January. This in a country where

How do we love thee, Chesapeake Bay blue crab, Callinectes sapidus, most savory beautiful swimmer? Let me count the ways.

In 1971, a young Pennsylvania legislator named Franklin Kury did something vitally important for his state and the Chesapeake Bay to which it drains. He would wait 42 years to

Saving the Bay. It’s a whopper of a job, what with the Chesapeake’s 64,000 square miles of water and watershed lands sprawling through six states and the District of Columbia.

“What’s going on now is a huge wealth transfer from consumers to some of the richest companies on earth …”

The October sunset was casting shadows, 70 years ago. Dad rose from his easy chair and stepped to the front door to hear the music overhead — wild geese migrating

Colonial Beach, VA: It was a glorious spring here on the lower Potomac River in 2023 for ospreys and for the townsfolk like Joanie and Barry Millward who applaud their