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Beneath a creek’s waters lives an entirely different ecosystem of critters that would not look out of place from the movie franchise, Alien, clinging to rocks and crawling on the submerged substrate. Despite their less than loveable features, a stream’s aquatic benthic macroinvertebrates are great indicators of stream health.
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This season there were plenty of warm sunny days to be spent on the Bay. In fact, one weekend in particular was more seasonable than most when I attended a retreat along the shores of the Bay herself.
Thank you to everyone who attended the Alliance’s 18th Annual Chesapeake Watershed Forum, both in person and virtually!
To reach more restoration and protection practitioners with this watershed-wide event, the Alliance provides virtual Watershed Forum sessions to inspire and empower local action towards clean water, regardless of where you’re tuning in!
The Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay is seeking landscape designers/architects or trail builder groups to respond to this Request for Proposals (RFP). We are excited to announce that we have partnered with Amelia Street School in Richmond, the National Park Service, and Virginia Commonwealth University to create a concept plan for an outdoor trail on the Amelia Street campus.
Clean water and resilient landscapes, cared for by all the people who live, work, and play in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. That’s the Alliance’s vision, and we are working on another piece of the puzzle that makes that vision clearer: community-based stream monitoring.
The Alliance has had another growth spurt! Please join us in welcoming nine new team members across the watershed.
Last September, I completed the fourth and final leg of my 444-mile kayaking journey, from North Branch of the Susquehanna from Cooperstown, New York, to Havre de Grace, Maryland with my dad.
There are a lot of reasons you may want to install a rain garden. No matter what your reason, the design and installation of a rain garden should never prevent you from moving forward with one!
We’re knee deep in colorful fall foliage at this point, and I hope you enjoy it as much as I do. Autumn is my favorite season, but it’s also associated with the next species in our invasive species series; autumn olive.
