Showing posts with label Chesapeake Bay. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chesapeake Bay. Show all posts

Friday, January 6, 2012

Save Farm Families Fundraiser planned for the Hudson Family on February 18, 2012


Save Farm Families Fundraiser planned for the Hudson Family on February 18, 2012

When: Saturday, February 18, 2012
Time: 3:00pm until 8:00pm

At Queen Anne's County 4-H Park; Centreville, MD

The Hudson Family of Berlin, Maryland is being sued by the New York based Waterkeeper Alliance. They operate a poultry and beef farm in Worcester County, Maryland. 100% of the funds raised will go to help the Hudson family pay their legal bills. This event is sponsored by the Caroline, Cecil, Kent, Queen Anne's and Talbot County Farm Bureaus.


Our goal is simple: Stand up and protect struggling farm families from bankruptcy triggered by extremist groups and their lawsuits.

For more than two centuries, family farms have been critical to the Maryland economy and the state’s way of life. Many of us are the sons and daughters of men and women who farmed, fished and raised their families in every corner of the Free State.

The Maryland Family Farmers Legal Defense Fund, Inc. was created to help Alan and Kristin Hudson, who run a family farm located near Maryland’s Eastern Shore, pay their mounting legal bills and to call attention to the threat that radical groups like the Waterkeeper Alliance pose to every family farm in America. Unless we stop them in the courtroom, Maryland’s largest industry, responsible for 14 percent of the state’s workforce, could disappear forever.


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Monday, October 31, 2011

Chesapeake Bay Program News for Monday, October 31, 2011

Chesapeake Bay Program News for Monday, October 31, 2011

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Bay News for Monday, October 31, 2011

NEW from Chesapeake Bay Program Blog: BOO!s of the Bay: Nine scary Chesapeake stories for Halloween

headlines

In Maryland, a renewed effort to eradicate swamp rats from the Delmarva Peninsula
Washington Post

Virginia buys land on Eastern Shore for preservation
Hampton Roads Virginian-Pilot

State says computer model for bay cleanup has problems
Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch

County's Bay clean-up cost may be near $600 million
Cecil (Md.) Whig

Heard around the trail
Standard Speaker (Pa.)
Chesapeake Bay allies talk clean water
Lebanon (Pa.) Daily News


opinion

Opinion: Halt the overfishing of Chesapeake Bay menhaden
Baltimore (Md.) Sun

Opinion: Maryland tax increases: What's in it for you?
Baltimore (Md.) Sun

Opinion: Federal funding for farm conservation must be preserved
Harrisburg (Pa.) Patriot News

Opinion: 'Pollution diet' is tough, but we all need a cleaner bay
Salisbury (Md.) Daily Times

Opinion: Photo of the Week: The Most Important Fish in the Sea
Chesapeake Bay Foundation

Opinion: For Love of Land and Water: Essex County Farmers Practice Effective Conservation, Part Four
Chesapeake Bay Foundation

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ERIC JAFFE - The Atlantic Cities: Maryland's Governor Explains his War on Sprawl


Maryland's Governor Explains his War on Sprawl

Maryland's Governor Explains his War on Sprawl
Flickr/Governor Martin O'Malley
Maryland is running out of space. For decades now, a trend toward low-density development - in a word, sprawl - has created a lifestyle threatens the state's farmland, cities, and the Chesapeake Bay. An antidote has arrived in the form of PlanMaryland, a statewide smart growth plan that encourages the development of high-density residential pockets along established lines of infrastructure. The hope is that this effort will produce a  stronger Baltimore-Washington mega-region, and a more sustainable quality of life.
Over the past three years the state's Department of Planning has collected comments from thousands of residents and produced two drafts of the plan. The public feedback period will endin early November, at which point the department will prepare a final version for submission to Gov. Martin O'Malley. On the eve of this long-awaited step forward, O'Malley spoke to Atlantic Cities about the perils of sprawl, the promise of density, and the state's city-centric future.
"This is kind of wonky stuff," he says. All the more reason to get to it...
Eric Jaffe is a contributing writer to The Atlantic Cities and the author of The King's Best Highway: The Lost History of the Boston Post Road, the Route That Made America. He lives in New York. All posts »

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Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Chesapeake Bay Program News for Wednesday, March 9 2011

Bay News for Wednesday, March 9 2011

Bay News for Wednesday, March 9 2011


Senate passes bill to reduce phosphorus in commercial dishwashing detergent
The Associated Press

EPA asks Pa. to boost monitoring of gas well waste
The Associated Press

Maryland lawmakers eye lawn fertilizer limits
The Baltimore Sun

Capito gathers with students, local leaders
The Hagerstown (Md.) Herald-Mail

O'Malley offers septic compromise
The Delmarva Daily Times

Plant More Plants
Examiner.com

VA's Family Farms Left Holding the...Manure?
Public News Service

Soft red winter wheat growing in popularity
Southeast Farm Press


Opinion: Not quite in the bag
The Gazette (Md.)




Blog: Septic stunt - O'Malley to wade in polluted Shore lake
The Baltimore Sun

Blog: Gibby's nightmare
The Baltimore Sun

Blog: VA, MD working to reduce hurdles to oyster aquaculture
The Bay Journal

Blog: Website lets Bay residents calculate their nitrogen footprint
The Bay Journal

Blog: Streamside forests critical to wildlife, water quality
The Bay Journal

Blog: Matt Ehrhart, CBF, Appointed To Marcellus Shale Commission
NorthcentralPA.com

Blog: ChesapeakeView: Everything you need to know about the bay
Science Blog


Chesapeake Bay Program News for Wednesday, March 9 2011
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Thursday, August 26, 2010

Scientists Warn of Smith Island's Demise, Residents Are Skeptical

Chesapeake Bay

Scientists Warn of Smith Island's Demise, Residents Are Skeptical

The town of Ewell, on Smith Island
Waterways thread through the land near Ewell, one of the three towns on Smith Island. Water has crept closer to the town as it erodes the island's shores. (Photo by Ben Giles)

By Ben Giles
Maryland Newsline
SMITH ISLAND, Md. - Capt. Larry Laird ferries passengers and cargo to and from Smith Island twice a day, each time navigating the narrow channel that grants passage to his boat through the shallow Chesapeake Bay waters.
 A wrong turn to the left or right, and he’ll run his vessel aground.
Shallow waters are part of daily life on Smith Island, the last inhabited island on Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay that has no roads connecting it to the mainland. For generations, the water has been the source of the island residents’ livelihood, providing crab in one season and oyster in another.
But now, erosion and rising sea levels in the Chesapeake threaten the island’s existence.
“In the worst-case scenarios, Smith Island could be gone in, let’s say by 2025, 2030 or so,” said Raghu Murtugudde, professor at the University of Maryland’s Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center...

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Tuesday, November 10, 1998

November 7th, 1998 Chesapeake Bay Partner Community - Gold Partner Community Award presented to Carroll County


The Chesapeake Bay Local Advisory Committee presented the 1998 Chesapeake Bay Partner Community - Gold Partner Community Award to Carroll County on Saturday, November 7th, 1998

**November 7th, 1998 trip to St. Michaels, Maryland’s Eastern Shore where the Chesapeake Bay Local Advisory Committee presented the 1998 Chesapeake Bay Partner Community - Gold Partner Community Award to Carroll County.

*Taking the trip were: Commissioner Donald Dell and his wife Leona Dell, Commissioner Richard Yates, Carroll County Environmental Affairs Advisory Board Member Sandy Watkins and her husband, Wayne Watkins, and Carroll County Environmental Affairs Advisory Board Chair Kevin Dayhoff and his wife Caroline Babylon. At St. Michaels we were joined by Environmental Services Bureau Chief Jim Slater and his wife Peggy Slater.

*We left for St. Michaels from the Carroll County Office Building at 7 a.m. After we found our way to the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Sandy, Wayne, Commissioner and Mrs. Dell, Commissioner Yates, and Caroline and Kevin had breakfast at Carpenter Street Restaurant on Carpenter Street in St. Michaels.

*After breakfast, we toured the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum. For lunch, we ate several different preparations of Oysters. The Chesapeake Bay Partner Community Awards were given out at 1 p.m. at the 11th Annual Oysterfest ’98 Celebration at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels. We arrived back at the Carroll County Office Building by 5 p.m. Kevin E. Dayhoff

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