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It’s officially spooky season, which makes it the best time to talk about my favorite misunderstood creature, bats. Although not aquatic wildlife, bats play an important ecological role in the Chesapeake Bay.
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Last month, the Alliance hosted students and faculty members from universities across MD and DC at the 3rd Annual HBCU/MSI Chesapeake Bay Summit. Students and faculty members brought expertise and passion for an array of academic backgrounds, including biology, environmental science, business, and creative studies.
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.
Learn how to reduce your stormwater runoff with rain gardens!
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.
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.
The Alliance has had another growth spurt! Please join us in welcoming new team members across the watershed.
Despite its famed cherry blossoms, the District of Columbia does not typically come to mind when envisioning outdoor greenspace. However, with its plentiful parks, generous waterfront access, and extensive urban tree canopy, Washington, DC has more to offer in the way of greenspace than one might expect.
Pennsylvania offers abundant opportunities for agriculture conservation; it’s home to over 49,000 farms, covering 7 million acres. Running through these acres is an abundant network of waterways that ultimately feed into the Chesapeake Bay. PA has about 85,500 miles of rivers and streams which supply over 2,000,000 acres of lakes, bays, and wetlands.
The Alliance is leading a project in Lancaster County, PA to address important obstacles to agricultural soil health practice adoption.
