endangered species

• News

Maryland leading challenge to Trump administration's decision allowing seismic testing off Atlantic coast

Maryland is leading a group of Atlantic states in challenging the Trump administration's decision allowing energy companies to conduct thundering seismic tests off the coast. The states are joining in a lawsuit filed by environmental groups in South Carolina last week.

By Scott Dance

Dec 20, 2018

• News

Trump administration approves seismic surveys for Atlantic drilling, including off Maryland coast

In addition to harming sea life, acoustic tests — in which boats tugging rods pressurized for sound emit jet engine-like booms 10 to 12 seconds apart for days and sometimes months — can disrupt thriving commercial fisheries.

• Maryland

Invasive fish, Part 2 — the managing

Since the invasives cannot be eliminated from most current locations with current technologies and management practices, controlling populations and distributions is the major strategy.

• Health

Scientists call on US to allow research on pot meds for pets

Dr. Byron Maas surveys a supply of marijuana products for dogs that lines a shelf in his veterinary clinic. They're selling well.

• Opinion

Border wall endangers animal communities too

The border wall that President Trump says he will shut down the government to build would be an environmental disaster that would split closely connected animal communities.

• Maryland

At Blackwater refuge, rising sea levels drown habitat

The view from the observation deck over a meadow of brown marsh grasses would make a nice postcard. Eagles roost on tall pines, muskrats burrow in mounds of mud and straw, and black ducks splash in a pond.

By Scott Dance

Dec 31, 2016

• Baltimore County

In Catonsville, research to protect endangered island Orioles

A Catonsville research lab at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County is using its resources and sense of curiosity to try to uncover details about a critically endangered Oriole just a three-hour flight away.

By Jon Bleiweis

Oct 5, 2016

• Harford

Harford fields teem with monarch caterpillars and butterflies, but threats abound

Take a close look at milkweed leaves, and you'll find monarch butterfly eggs and caterpillars fattening themselves as they prepare to change into monarch butterflies. The milkweed is a vital food source and breeding location for the pollinators as they make their annual migration to Mexico.

By David Anderson

Sep 15, 2016

• Maryland

Feds to end investigation into Eastern Shore eagle poisonings for lack of evidence

Federal investigators still don't know who is responsible for killing the eagles in February. Now, officials plan to end their search.

By Tim Prudente

Aug 22, 2016

• Features

New cheetahs make their first appearance at the Maryland Zoo

Two tawny-colored cheetahs, Refu and Wgasa, can now be spotted at the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore.

• Maryland

Patuxent refuge changes course in project to restore rare whooping cranes

U.S. Fish and Wildlife researchers are trying new methods to raise endangered whooping crane chicks at Patuxent Wildlife Research Refuge.

By Tim Prudente

Mar 11, 2016

• Maryland

Reward raised to $25,000 in Eastern Shore dead eagles case

The reward money has been raised to $25,000 for information leading to an arrest and conviction in the case of 13 bald eagles found dead Saturday on a Caroline County farm.

By Tim Prudente

Feb 24, 2016

• Endangered Species

BWI passenger tells 'whale of a tale' about bones in luggage

A passenger flying from Iceland to Baltimore Washington International Airport was found with possible whale bones in his luggage, prompting confiscation to determine if they're from an endangered species.

By Jean Marbella

Feb 12, 2016

• Baltimore County

Elephants for Africa gets aid from Towson artist

Elephants and Baltimore is not a combination that comes naturally to mind. Elephants for Africa wants to change that. The United Kingdom-based charity has launched an awareness campaign and a Towson artist is playing a key part.

• Opinion

Saving an endangered squirrel

The recovery of the Delmarva Peninsula fox squirrel shows what's possible when partners come together and work toward common goals. It's a model for how the Endangered Species Act can and should work, and because of this shared success, the Delmarva Peninsula is just a bit more complete.

• Opinion

A hunter/environmentalist alliance?

A rejoining of the alliance of hunters and the environmentalists who now condemn them could be the best thing for the survival of African wildlife.

• Endangered Species

Laurel refuge gets whooping cranes 'into the wild'

In 1966, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Patuxent Wildlife Research Center created the program to help preserve the endangered whooping crane population. Since then, staff and volunteers at the program — now run by U.S Geological Survey researchers — have raised more than 1,000 whooping crane chicks, teaching them how to eat and drink, taking them on walks and preparing them for release into the wild. "We're kind of like proud parents," said Ken Lavish. "The main reason we're

• Business

Plans to close Salisbury plant a blow to economy

A Salisbury manufacturing plant threatened with closure more than 20 years ago is once again slated to be shut down, a blow to the Eastern Shore city which is still working its way back from the recession.

By Natalie Sherman

Feb 2, 2015

• Travel

Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge visitor center offers enhanced experience

The Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, about a two-hour drive from Baltimore, is a stunning 28,000-acre expanse of grass, water and sky, alive with geese, ducks, osprey, heron and other wildlife.

• Opinion

Our endangered environment [Commentary]

Delmarva's marvelously productive salt marsh ecosystem is losing ground to the rising waters of the Chesapeake Bay. Salt marsh is that green fringe that protects natural areas, farms and communities from coastal storms and tides.

• Environment

More Maryland animals, plants in danger of extinction

Even as conservationists and government officials celebrated Friday the rebound of the endangered Delmarva fox squirrel, they acknowledged that more animals and plants are slipping toward oblivion in Maryland.

• Environment

Delmarva Peninsula fox squirrel considered recovered

Delmarva Peninsula fox squirrel is a rare success story in the 41-year history of the Endangered Species Act, and much of the credit goes to Guy W. Willey Sr. of Cambridge.

• Environment

Delmarva Peninsula fox squirrel considered recovered

• Opinion

Too much carbon, too little time [Editorial]

New reports shows record levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere potentially accelerating the climate change timetable

• Opinion

Too much carbon, too little time [Editorial]

• Environment

Big hand for a tiny turtle

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is giving the Maryland Department of Natural Resources $153,321 to protect the bog turtle, which at just three to four inches long can fit in the palm of an adult hand - when it can be found at all. The grant will go toward buying a home for the turtle, which is so rare it's considered endangered in Maryland and classified as threatened nationally.

• Maryland

Fostering fossa

• Environment

Lawsuit filed over Purple Line's environmental impact

A Washington-area trail users' group and a pair of environmental advocates have filed suit to block the Purple Line, contending the $2.4 billion light-rail project in the DC suburbs threatens to harm two species of endangered crustaceans that live in the creek the transit line would cross.

• Environment

Lawsuit filed over Purple Line's environmental impact

• Environment

Farming the 'king of the ocean'

Scientists have been trying this summer to nurture newly hatched bluefin tuna from microscopic, translucent larvae to fingerlings recognizable as miniature fish.

• Environment

Farming the 'king of the ocean'

• Baltimore City Paper

The red knots are coming! Migrating shore birds' annual invasion of Delmarva is beginning

• News

Orchid loss in Md. mountains laid to deer

For as long as anyone can remember, wild orchids have rewarded sharp-eyed hikers in Maryland's Catoctin Mountains with pink, yellow and white blooms peeping from the forest floor. But these "secret beauties," as one researcher dubbed them, are vanishing at an alarming rate.

• Environment

Orchid loss in Md. mountains laid to deer

• Opinion

Singing the blues [Editorial]

Latest survey results suggest Chesapeake Bay blue crabs will be in short supply this year and that more must be done to protect their future

• Environment

Osprey attempts to build nest in front of traffic camera

• Harford

Harford Land Trust names Ben Lloyd president

The Harford Land Trust (HLT) named Ben Lloyd president of its board of directors at its annual membership meeting held March 22 at Fiore Winery.

• Opinion

Unions would protect adjunct instructors [Commentary]

Bills before the state legislature would grant community college employees the right to form into collective bargaining units, particularly important for part-time teachers who receive less pay for the same work as their full-time peers.

• Opinion

Protect Maryland's wilderness areas [Letter]

Protect Maryland's wilderness areas

• Environment

Wind project curbed to reduce bat deaths

• Arts and Culture

Novel works from Generous Company, Rhymes With Opera

Premiere of 'Where the Whangdoodle Sings' by Generous Company and first staging of 'Red Giant' by Rhymes With Opera have been among this month's offbeat fare in Baltimore.

• Crime

2 bald eagles killed in Montgomery County

Maryland Natural Resources Police are investigating the killing of two bald eagles in Montgomery County over the past week.

• Opinion

Protect the Endangered Species Act [Letter]

Sen. Ben Cardin and Rep. Jim Moran pledge to protect the Endangered Species Act, which turns 40 on Saturday.

• Opinion

Protect the Endangered Species Act [Letter]

• Opinion

A feast for city eyes [Commentary]

I have city eyes. Apparently I was born with them. Whenever my parents and sisters exclaimed about the beauty of a beet plucked from our Connecticut garden, I would think, "Mmmm . . . a beet. . . . cousin of the sugar beet, source of that white powder sprinkled on those twisty crullers from Howland's Department Store. I really do like a good department store."

• Maryland

Birds' Eye View: Bald eagles appearing in large numbers around Carroll

• News

Enigmatic eels a focus of concern

For those who think of the Chesapeake Bay as home to blue crabs, oysters and rockfish, it's a revelation to see so many eels hauled up from the depths. But appearances can be deceiving.

• Environment

Enigmatic eels a focus of concern

• Environment

Maryland eyes expanding wildlands

• Politics

New law cracks down on cellphone chatting while driving

It won't matter if you're obeying every other traffic law: Starting Tuesday, if you're talking on a hand-held mobile phone while driving in Maryland, the police will have the right to pull you over and ticket you.