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Explore the Quiet Corners of the Chesapeake

When you picture the Chesapeake Bay, you of course imagine blue crabs, a vast estuary, and lively coastal cities like Baltimore and Annapolis. While those are all iconic, there are other, sometimes overlooked areas of the Bay’s expansive watershed, making quiet, but important impacts on the health of the region we call home.

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Tulip Tree Scale: A Messy Pest of Our Beloved Native Trees

What is Tulip Tree Scale? Explore this tiny insect that, while rarely fatal, weakens trees by feeding on sap and attracting sooty mold—highlighting the growing impact of pests in changing environmental conditions.

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What’s Poppin’? Phenological Fun: White Wood Aster

This low-growing hardy native is one of the select few plants that can still thrive in dry, shady spots that otherwise prove too challenging for many herbaceous perennials.

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Reduce Your Stormwater: Rain Gardens

Learn how to reduce your stormwater runoff with rain gardens!

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Lancaster, PA Farm Helps Clean Pequea Creek

For the past four years, the Alliance’s Agriculture team worked with an organic dairy farm in Lancaster County, PA, and last year, this nutrient reduction project was completed! Mr. Abner Stotlzfus, a Plain Sect farmer, operates a 40-cow organic dairy, supplying high-quality milk to Organic Valley.

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Susquehannock Stewardship of the Susquehanna River Valley

Indigenous people understood the importance of sustainability and stewardship, and occupied the Susquehanna River Valley as early as 16,000 years ago during the “Paleo-Indian” era.

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Revitalized Greenspace and public Art in Historic Richmond

Greening Greater Fulton is complete! The Alliance worked closely with partners to implement a green street on Richmond’s Government Road, bringing the Greater Fulton community’s vision of a vibrant, safer, green business district to life.

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Wandering Pennsylvania’s Waterways: Collaborating Across Communities

Protecting Pennsylvania’s natural resources requires more than good policy – it demands a web of partnerships, a blend of innovation and tradition, and a deep respect for both the land and the people who steward it.

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What’s Poppin’? Phenological Fun: Cecropia Moth

Have you heard of the largest moth native to North America: Hyalophora cecropia?

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Left photo: freshly foraged chanterelle mushrooms in a straw hat. Right photo: Roughly chopped chanterelles sauteeing in a cast iron skillet.

Chanterelle Soup on a Summers Evening

Forget cliché flowers and chocolates for date night, and curate this incredible chanterelle soup recipe, instead!

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