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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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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.
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!
Kick-off the annual Project Clean Stream weekend with the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay on Saturday, September 14 with a stream clean-up event at Crooked Branch Ravine Park in Richmond, VA. We’ll gather at the entrance to the park at the end of Northrop Street starting at 10 am, before splitting up to collect litter …
With its flat, coastal plains, Delmarva has a distinctive rural character with deep agricultural roots and strong ties to the water.
The Alliance is excited to partner with the Virginia Department of Forestry as they launch a flexible, no-cost riparian forest buffer installation program called Riparian Forests for Landowners Program. This unique program will also cover one year of maintenance for landowners.
A recent news story involved a homeowner along the Elizabeth River whose next door neighbor hadn’t cut or trimmed the vegetation in his yard in over four years. This colorful local dispute gets to the heart of a perception issue that is critical to the future of the Chesapeake Bay and its wildlife.
Thank you to everyone who joined us for the 2024 Wild & Scenic Film Festival! 598 of our friends and partners gathered to enjoy the festival this year.
What good is data if it never gets used? The Chesapeake Monitoring Cooperative (CMC) is here to make sure that doesn’t happen! Each group within the CMC network is monitoring to achieve their own unique and individual goals for education, advocacy, outreach, and communication and have made enormous impacts on their communities.
Kick-off the annual Project Clean Stream weekend with the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay on Friday, April 12 with a stream clean-up event at Crooked Branch Ravine Park in Richmond, VA. We’ll gather at the entrance to the park at the end of Northrop Street starting at 2 pm, before splitting up to collect litter …
