Chesapeake Bay Journal

With errant states falling in line with new striped bass catch curbs, East Coast fishery managers agreed last week to consider imposing still more limits on recreational fishing later this year to help the struggling fish recover.

In 2009, an insidious fungus that causes white-nose syndrome spread through Pennsylvania’s bat colonies like a plague.

A kayaker pulls his boat toward a marsh gut in lower Dorchester County, MD.

It’s clear that 2025 is not the finish line for Chesapeake Bay cleanup efforts.

Officials from the Virginia Marine Resources Commission, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and other organizations planted oysters in the Lower York River oyster reef on April 22, 2024. (John Wallace/Virginia Institute of Marine Science)

The Chesapeake Bay watershed’s checkerboard approach to “forever chemicals” is finally beginning to end. The cost to water utility customers — and the timeline for real action — remains to

As a famous poet once said, spring is when one’s fancy turns to thoughts of love. It’s also a time to get young new trees in the ground.

Geologist Steven Kite (left) and Ken Caldwell, a volunteer with the Nature Conservancy, soak in the view from Raven Rocks on West Virginia’s Ice Mountain.

The spaces surrounding military bases in the Mid-Atlantic were largely rural and wild when their locations were chosen decades ago. In the years since, though, population growth has pushed development

Stephen Shivery, an office manager at Poop Happens, scoops up dog waste at a client's home on Maryland's Kent Island.