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Have you heard of the largest moth native to North America: Hyalophora cecropia?
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Forget cliché flowers and chocolates for date night, and curate this incredible chanterelle soup recipe, instead!
Found along many streets and landscaped settings across the Chesapeake Bay watershed, crepe myrtle, is a non-native plant species. Here are some relatives to the crepe myrtle that have been here all along and could fill the itch of our local tree planters.
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 …
Smooth Sumac: The Fiery Native That’s Turning Heads
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.
American bittersweet is a resilient, climbing native vine that’s more than just a pretty face in the spring woods.
The chestnut-sided warbler is a diminutive but beautiful neotropical migrant songbird that breeds throughout the forests of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed.
Thank you to everyone who made the 2025 Volunteer Tree Planting Relay possible! Over the course of the day on April 5, 2025, the Alliance team, partners, and 186 dedicated volunteers planted 1,200 trees across the watershed.
