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Chesapeake Bay Watershed Education and Training grants enable student experiences, teacher training. Students and teachers across the Chesapeake Bay watershed will benefit from meaningful educational experiences on and along the water, thanks to more than […]

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Keep cows out of streams

The Chesapeake Bay watershed includes 3.5 million livestock, among them beef and dairy cows, swine, horses, goats and sheep. More than half of those are cattle, which too often can be found standing in streams.

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Brook Trout-The Canary in the Mine

The brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) is a small, brilliantly colored freshwater fish native to clear, cold streams and rivers in the headwaters of the Chesapeake Bay watershed. The state fish of New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia […]

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Draft Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement

The Bay Program is seeking public comment through March 17 on the final draft of its Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement, which will guide restoration efforts in the nation’s largest estuary, and its 64,000-square-mile watershed, for […]