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The Watershed Champion and Fran Flanigan Awards are special recognition awards for leadership and dedication to cleaner rivers and streams of the Chesapeake Bay. The following awardees have thoughtfully considered how to push the boundaries between science, the environment, and art, and are leaders to be recognized for their exemplary stewardship and profound impacts on the Bay.
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Our ongoing efforts to install and maintain a reforestation project at Lois Harrison-Jones Elementary School in Richmond, VA has been recognized (thanks to everyone who voted) as the top urban BMP in the Bay this year!
As the Alliance continues to grow within the agricultural conservation space across the Chesapeake Bay watershed, one thing is constant – our “brand” of conservation is driven by partnerships. The partnerships we create not only include the typical players such as; environmental nonprofits, state and local agencies, and universities, but also corporations.
It’s not a giant mosquito! In fact, there aren’t giant mosquitoes! In North America, mosquitoes max out at less than a dime in size, legs included. Keep the change! This is a crane fly!
Ask the Alliance is a signature live talk webinar series hosted during the summer, and this year’s series kicks off Thursday, July 6th! Alliance Staff experts share what you can do at home to both enjoy and improve the health of the Chesapeake Bay watershed.
Join us in celebrating two farms that hosted over 70 volunteers this spring to install a total of approximately four acres of riparian buffer along local streams on their land and are implementing further on-farm conservation practices.
The Alliance’s Washington, DC team had a very busy Earth Day this year! Instead of hosting our own event, we wanted to show support for local environmental community partners and chose to attend different events across the DC Metro Area to do so.
Wood ducks are one of those animals that just seems odd and out of place in our watersheds. But, wood ducks are native to the Bay, and call the Chesapeake home year-round.
The Citizens Advisory Committee (CAC) is a group of volunteers representing communities and stakeholders from across the Chesapeake Bay watershed, and is divided into three subcommittees. We interviewed the chair of each subcommittee to learn more about the expertise they bring to the CAC and how their unique panel is helping to restore the Bay!
We recently revamped our website navigation, and we are excited to share it with you.
