Location: Maryland

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Thank you for another great Wild & Scenic Film Fest!

Thank you to everyone who joined us from March 4-6 across the watershed for the Alliance’s 5th Annual Wild & Scenic Film Festival!

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Project Clean Stream Kick Off – Annapolis, Maryland

Join Anne Arundel County Watershed Stewards and the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay on April 4, 2025, from 2-4 PM at Quiet Waters park for the Project Clean Stream Kick-Off! We will meet at the Holly Pavilion and pull invasive species from the surrounding area. What is provided: Gloves, trash bags, and snacks will be provided. What to bring: Your favorite garden …

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Become a Chesapeake Conservation and Climate Corps Member with the Alliance

The Alliance strives to create opportunities for our Corps Members, and since 2018, has hosted four, all of whom have moved onto being full-time or part-time members of our team!

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Pass the Golden Shovel for this Year’s Tree Planting Relay

Join the Alliance as we host back-to-back tree plantings in a relay-style event to get thousands of trees in the ground in just one day!

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Branching out with a Campus Tree Canopy Assessment

Environmental Projects Intern, Alex DuBuclet, from Bowie State University, has concluded another semester with the Alliance! Join us, as Alex tells us about their Capstone Project from this semester.

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Improving the Coastal Resiliency of a Maryland Farm

In 2024, the Alliance was awarded $3.9 million by the Maryland Department of Natural Resources to construct a nearly three-quarter-mile-long living shoreline on a family-run heritage farm. The project will help reduce wave energy arriving from the 33-mile fetch that’s causing the farm to lose roughly 10 feet of shoreline per year.

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Wild & Scenic Film Festival – MD

Save the date for the 2025 Wild & Scenic Film Festival in MD!

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Thank you for another successful Taste!

The 2024 Taste was another great success! Many thanks to our sponsors and friends for raising $116k for our mission to restore the lands and waters of the Chesapeake Bay watershed.

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Local Feedback, Collective Impact: How Community Leaders are Guiding the Chesapeake Bay’s Future

When it comes to clean water, diverse communities require diverse solutions. Spanning more than 64,000 square miles across six states and the District of Columbia, the Chesapeake Bay watershed is home to roughly 1,800 local governments. At this vast scale, there is no one-size-fits-all approach to achieving clean water.

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A group of volunteers pose in front of the Crooked Branch Ravine Park sign with their trash bags.

Project Clean Stream Kicks-off the Fall Season Collecting 2,850 Pounds of Trash!

In recognition of the National Day of Service on Wednesday, September 11, The Alliance kicked off the fall 2024 Project Clean Stream season in Pennsylvania, Annapolis, Washington, DC, and Virginia!

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