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Invasive plants have a lot in common with zombies. They’re dangerous, hard to dispatch, and have a tendency to surround and overwhelm even the most prudent landowner. Sometimes slowly, sometimes alarmingly fast, they will take over every inch of a property if left alone. Invasive plants are also specialists at “returning from the dead”. Simply …
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It’s alive! The forest floor, that is. When walking through the woods we mostly see leaves, sticks, and other dead plant material on the ground. That layer of “duff” is teeming with life though, and that’s a very good thing. The tiny organisms of our forest floor are members of the ecosystem that are just …
The North American native shrub witch hazel (Hamamelis virginiana) soon will seem an eerie sight in our Chesapeake woods. Witch hazel is fairly easy to identify during the growing season by the shallow, rounded teeth and lopsided base that characterize its leaves. It is nearly impossible to miss, however, following leaf fall, when its bright …
Bats are not something that you should be afraid of, but to nocturnal insects there is no greater danger. An individual bat will eat thousands of insects each night! This is good news for humans who want less insect pests, but means that bats need good foraging habitat to satisfy their voracious appetites. In Forests …
Bats of the eastern US are in trouble. Millions have succumbed to White-nose Syndrome in the past decade, which can kill 90-100 percent of bats that hibernate together in caves over winter. Our bats have been declining for decades before White-nose Syndrome began spreading throughout the northeast, however. Their reliance on forests, outlined in Forests …
Kate Fritz is no stranger to the issues that face the Chesapeake Bay watershed, having lived in five of the seven Chesapeake Bay jurisdictions. Fritz joins the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay as the new executive director, bringing more than 15 years of experience in scientific data collection, local land use planning, ecological restoration and nonprofit management. …
Bats are typically associated with caves, attics, and Halloween, not trees. However, all 15 of the bat species within the Chesapeake Bay Watershed use forest habitat for breeding, foraging, and/or shelter. They are a critical part of forest ecosystems, each daily consuming nearly their own body weight in insects and filling a similar ecological niche …
Press Release Media Contact: Marissa Spratley Email: mspratley@allianceforthebay.org Office: 443-949-0575 PRESS RELEASE: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE USDA NRCS Awarded Over $1.5 Million to Reduce Agricultural Runoff in Pennsylvania Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay awarded funds to partner with local dairy farms Annapolis, MD (October 2nd, 2017) The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) in Pennsylvania has announced more than $1.5 million for …
Media Contact: Marissa Spratley Email: mspratley@allianceforthebay.org Office: 443-949-0575 PRESS RELEASE: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE RiverWise Congregations Partnership Receives Funding to Restore a Historic Cemetery Asbury Broadneck UMC to receive much needed stormwater remediation Annapolis, MD (September 25, 2017) The Chesapeake and Coastal Bays Trust Fund of the Maryland Department of Natural Resources has awarded over …
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. Axioms aside, neither do acorns. How, then, do oak saplings grow anywhere but directly beneath or downhill of adult oaks? How can they possibly end up on ridges, where gravity couldn’t possibly take them? Acorns can be dispersed by gravity and flowing water, but for the most …
