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Arbutus and Catonsville middle schools mingle during trip to NorthBay
Catonsville Middle School principal Michael Thorne didn't need a reminder of why he sends his sixth-grade class to NorthBay, a week-long environmental camp in North East, Md., but got one anyway. "I saw a group of kids who (on April 18) were having...
Tags: Rentals, Middle Schools, Science, Catonsville, Students
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Garden Q&A: Some invasive species can be controlled
My mother's landscape is full of pachysandra and periwinkle ground cover, both of which are on invasive species lists. Do I need to pull all of it out this spring?
These two are different from most non-native invasive plants. Yes, these popular...Tags: NASA, Space Programs, Port of Baltimore
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UM barge to help fight invasive species
The first step in stopping invasive species from hitching a ride into the Chesapeake Bay aboard cargo ships is determining how to make massive ballast tanks an inhospitable environment. Maryland scientists hope they will find the answer aboard a new $2.7...Tags: Inner Harbor, Water Supply, Elijah E. Cummings, Water, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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Celebrity Snakehead Dinner to benefit Oyster Recovery Partnership
The Baltimore SunAuthor, chef and National Geographic Fellow Barton Seaver joins eight chefs from Maryland and D.C. for this invasive species dinner benefiting the Oyster Recovery Partnership. Chefs include Baltimore's Spike Gjerde (Woodberry Kitchen) and Chad Wells...Tags: Wolfgang Puck, Washington, DC, Dining and Drinking, Annapolis, Entertainment Events
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Maryland has become ground zero for a new invasive species threat, wavyleaf basketgrass
After a recent hike through Patapsco Valley State Park, Baltimore teacher Greg Schnitzlein's jaw dropped as he watched his two dogs emerge from the woods looking, as he says, like Chia Pets, every inch of their fur slathered in sproutlike seeds....Tags: Gardens and Parks, Regional Authority, Executive Branch, Agriculture, Carroll County (Maryland)
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Acre by acre, scientists work to rid Md. of nutria
— Judas 760 knew just where to swim last fall after federal trappers set him free: back to his home in the marshes of Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, where other nutria lived.
But true to his name, Judas betrayed members of his colony by...Tags: Conservation, Wildlife, Wetlands, Chesapeake Bay, Hunting
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Colorful invasive vine is 'Bittersweet'
I saw this vine growing in my trees when its leaves turned bright yellow. Now it has pretty orange berries but it's strangling my trees! I'm afraid its weight will pull them down in a blizzard. It's the very devil to remove — I hacked away with a...Tags: File Sharing
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Maryland chefs want to put snakeheads on the menu
Chef Chad Wells of Alewife restaurant tossed chunks of raw snakehead fish with cilantro and citrus to make something more ambitious than an $8 ceviche appetizer. It was an invasive-species eradication plan in a martini glass.
Wells wants the Asian...Tags: Bodies of Water, Wildlife, Seafood, Tacos, Appetizers
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Bird mites can bite people
Baltimore Sun reporterQuestion: Are bedbugs biting me? These tiny black bugs have 8 legs. I see them in my bedroom but also other rooms, mainly upstairs - and not just at night. Answer: Those aren't bedbugs. Bedbugs hide during the day, and they are insects so they have six...Tags: Nature
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Potomac snakeheads not related to others
Associated PressCOLLEGE PARK -- Genetic tests show northern snakehead fish found last year in the Potomac River are not related to those found in other waters in the region, suggesting that the alien fish that can move short distances across land has not spread on its...Tags: Bodies of Water, China, Crofton, Rivers, Transportation
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DNA test set for fish caught in Potomac
Sun StaffResearchers at the Smithsonian Institution plan to test the DNA of five snakeheads found in the Potomac River to see if they were spawned by the same fish as the Crofton snakeheads discovered two years ago. The results could help state and federal...Tags: Bodies of Water, Wildlife, Fairfax County, Rivers, Endangered Species
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