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As record producer Owl City once sang, “You would not believe your eyes if 10 million fireflies lit up the world as I fell asleep.” I would certainly not believe my eyes, but I sure would be mesmerized! There are around 270 firefly species found in North America and around 2,400 species worldwide. Many of …
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Smooth Sumac: The Fiery Native That’s Turning Heads
This year, during the Alliance’s Annual Volunteer Tree Planting Relay (Treelay) Alliance team members, volunteers, and parishioners gathered at St. Catherine to plant trees and tour the campus.
The Alliance and The Hershey Company (Hershey) recently cleaned up the banks of Swatara Creek at Swatara Creek Park in Hershey, PA! The park is a great resource for recreation, featuring multiple fields for sports, access for shoreline fishing, and a small boat launch.
Today, Marylanders can count on our farmers to produce a wide array of signature crops, from poultry and produce on the Eastern Shore to apple butter and ice cream in Frederick and Washington Counties.
Summer is here, and that means the peak of hummingbird season in the Chesapeake Bay region. Explore the steps we can take in our own spaces and communities to help these flying jewels thrive!
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.
Dive into the Forests Team’s reflections and takeaways as they revisit Uhler Tract.
The purple pitcher plant is a carnivorous forb native to bogs, fens, marshes, wetlands and some pineland forests of the Chesapeake Bay watershed.
Executive director of Defensores de la Cuenca, Abel Olivo, is the new chair of the Chesapeake Bay Program’s Stakeholders’ Advisory Committee, and dedicated to engaging Spanish-speaking communities with the environment.
