Category: Environment

Who knew that deer salivate about 2 gallons a day or that a fawn has 272–342 spots on its coat? Or that a doe may choose to give birth to fawns near a road so that fewer bears, coyotes and bobcats are around? Or that a deer may consume more than 100 different plant species a year?

The Chesapeake Bay’s watermen are getting green lights to catch a few more blue crabs, a year after dismal population numbers led to steep cutbacks in their allowance.

The Chesapeake Bay’s annual “dead zone” is expected to be the smallest ever recorded this summer, providing an unexpected boon to the estuary’s vulnerable ecosystem.

From the Bay Journal The Chesapeake Bay’s once-moribund oyster industry has been on a roll...

By Timothy B. Wheeler Bay Journal The Chesapeake Bay’s oyster population is still a long way from...

By Timothy B. Wheeler and Jeremy Cox The Chesapeake Bay’s blue crab population has recovered...

By Karl Blankenship Bay Journal Editor-at-large For decades, efforts to restore a healthy...

As Maryland seeks federal aid, questions remain about ability to stem invasion of the blue catfish.

By Jeremy Cox and Timothy Wheeler Chesapeake Bay crabbers will have reduced harvest allowances for...

With many solar arrays ending up on farmland, a movement is fast taking hold to make sure that they will benefit the environment, agriculture and wildlife, and not just create a sea of silicon. Allowing sheep to graze among solar panels has become one attractive antidote.

By Ad Crable and Timothy B. Wheeler Bay Journal News Service The rollout of solar and other...