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Touring the Green Infrastructure of St. Catherine Labouré

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.

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Teaming up with Hershey to Clean a Pennsylvania Park

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.

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Agriculture Uncovered: Explore Maryland Ag

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.

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Creating a Haven for Ruby-throated Hummingbirds

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!

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Agriculture Uncovered: Explore Pennsylvania Ag

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.

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Return to Uhler: Reflections & Takeaways

Dive into the Forests Team’s reflections and takeaways as they revisit Uhler Tract.

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What’s Poppin’? Phenological Fun: Pitcher Plant

The purple pitcher plant is a carnivorous forb native to bogs, fens, marshes, wetlands and some pineland forests of the Chesapeake Bay watershed.

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New Stakeholders’ Advisory Committee Chair shares why people are the most important part of environmental restoration

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.

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Bittersweet Spring: Native Vines and Vibrant Birds of the Chesapeake Bay

American bittersweet is a resilient, climbing native vine that’s more than just a pretty face in the spring woods.

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Setophaga pensylvanica: The ‘Pennsylvania Moth Eater’

The chestnut-sided warbler is a diminutive but beautiful neotropical migrant songbird that breeds throughout the forests of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed.

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