The MD Bay-Wise Program focuses on the quality of the Chesapeake Bay’s water. Most residents live within a half-mile of a storm drain, stream or river, and most of those waterways drain into the bay.

How we maintain our landscapes can affect the health of local waterways (drainage ditches, streams, and rivers), the bay and our environment. By changing a few landscape practices, we can often make or keep Maryland communities healthier. Continue reading Love the Bay? Be Bay-Wise →

 Sara Fitzsimmons, Director of Restoration and Regional Science Coordinator Supervisor, is planning a large progeny test planting at Red Clay Reservation (northern Delaware)  Thursday, April 13 – Saturday, April 15. 

They are planting close to 1000 trees, so need your help! Continue reading Save The American Chestnut – Planting 1000 Trees →

A half-day workshop will be held Saturday, April 8, by Maryland’s Carroll County Forestry Board. The event will focus on the importance of reforesting land adjacent to bodies of water.

After the workshop, free seedlings will be handed out. Subsidized tree shelters and stakes will be sold. If you would you like to attend, print out the attached application and mail it to the address on the brochure. If you are purchasing tree shelters and stakes, make your check payable to CCFB and include it with your application.

There is a $5 registration fee. Details and registration are available  at this link. Please disregard the application due date.