wetlands

• Harford

Discover the wildlife at Otter Point Creek

How to experience the area's natural beauty ¿ and how to protect it

• Baltimore City

More than 200 volunteers take part in Fort McHenry cleanup

You never know where some of the items we discard each day may show up. Often the plastic foam, plastic ware, bottles and other floating debris nestle in wetlands at Fort McHenry, disrupting the hundreds of animal species there.

By Joe Burris

Apr 25, 2015

• Harford

Judge upholds zoning approvals for Harford County Airport expansion

A judge has upheld a county zoning board of appeals decision last year permitting a planned major expansion of the Harford County Airport near Churchville, including construction of a new, longer and wider main runway.

• Baltimore City Paper

Your 'Rain Tax' Dollars at Work: Baltimore's mandatory stormwater-management improvement plan is out for public review

• Opinion

Close Clean Water Act loophole

A loophole in the Clean Water Act allows polluters to dump about 200 million pounds of toxic chemicals into waterways nationwide each year.

• Baltimore City Paper

The Oyster Counters: On the water with the scientists on Maryland's 75th annual Chesapeake Bay oyster survey

• Opinion

Protect Maryland's streams and wetlands [Letter]

EPA rules offer best chance of sparing endangered streams from destruction

• 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.

• Maryland

Wetlands to preserve wildlife and protect waterways from nutrient pollution

Gail Wagner, of Pleasant Valley, said her two sons wanted to participate in the Chesapeake Bay Foundation's Create a Wetland Project for two very different reasons.

• Harford

Harford council approves zoning exception for airport expansion

Sitting as the board of appeals, the Harford County Council Tuesday night approved zoning special exception and a variance that will permit a major expansion of the Harford County Airport near Churchville.

• 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.

• Conservation

Exploring nature's wonders at Irvine Nature Center

Kelly Scible explores the natural scenery at Irvine Nature Center.

• Harford

Church proposed for vacant Abingdon property

Harford County planning officials have asked officials with the Love Fellowship Christian Center Inc. of Bel Air to revise their plans to build a church in Abingdon to ensure there is enough space between the church property and existing residential and school property.

• Harford

A summer morning visit to Harford's Eden Mill marsh

Frank Marsden, founder and past-president of Eden Mill Nature Center in Pylesville, has become quite the nature photographer and, in doing so, has made a suburb continuing study of the flora and fauna of Eden Mill and its surroundings along Deer Creek. This past Sunday, Marsden took some once-in-a-lifetime shots.

• Maryland

Union Bridge trail trek may expand by end of year

• Maryland

Union Bridge trail trek may expand by end of year

• Opinion

Mikulski must stand up for clean water [Letter]

Maryland's senior senator is key figure in supporting EPA's clean water regulations

• Baltimore City Paper

Honey Island Swamp Band and Johnny Sketch & the Dirty Notes

• Baltimore City Paper

Big Banks as The Producers? Not Likely

• Maryland

County office building's delayed opening 40 years ago [Eagle Archive]

Built near former site of Crowl Town

• Maryland

Library Schedules (May 27-June 3)

• Harford

McMonagle wins 50-miler in S.C.; Muse wins 5K at HCC

From ocean to swamp: Mike McMonagle of Bel Air won the Wambaw Swamp Stomp 50-mile trail run in Cordesville, S.C., Saturday, resuming his ultra-marathon racing quickly after five months at sea.

• Maryland

Library Schedule (April 30-May 6)

• Authors

Baltimore writer Matthew Olshan publishes first adult novel

"Marshlands" is praised by such literary power-brokers as the New York Times and Booker Prize-winning author Julian Barnes

• Wetlands

Volunteers help clean up Fort McHenry Wetland while organizers talk Chesapeake restoration

To combat pollution plaguing the marsh habitat, about 250 volunteers picked up trash, dredged debris, planted trees and tended the wetland's gardens Saturday as part of a cleanup event hosted by the aquarium and the National Parks Conservation Association.

• Maryland

Library Schedules (April 1-7)

• Maryland

Library Schedule (March 19-25)

• TV

'American Horror Story: Coven' recap, 'The Sacred Taking'

A recap of the Dec. 4 episode of 'American Horror Story: Coven,' as Fiona has second thoughts

• Maryland

Outdoors commentary: Slabbin' in the swamps

• Eastern Shore

State puts Kent Island project on hold

A developer's request for permits to build a bitterly disputed waterfront housing project on Kent Island has been put on hold after state officials discovered a "business relationship" between a high-ranking Maryland environmental official and a lawyer for the development team.

• Environment

Maryland in line for millions to fend off storm damage

Millions in federal funds are to be spent in Maryland to help protect Smith Island, Crisfield and other coastal communities from devastating flooding like that caused by last year's Superstorm Sandy.

• Environment

Planting time in Baltimore harbor

Students from two city schools and some adult volunteers gathered at the National Aquarium Tuesday to "plant" some oysters in the Inner Harbor - not for eating but to try to improve the health of the ailing water body.

• Howard County

Eco-friendly islands populate Columbia lakes

According to Columbia Association's Assistant Director of Open Space Sean Harbaugh, the "floating wetlands," as they are called, are CA's latest attempt to increase the sustainability of its lakes and ponds.

• Howard County

Goats provide environmental lesson at Ellicott City's Dunloggin

Eco-Goats at Dunloggin Middle School provide valuable environmental lesson

• TV

'Top Chef' season premiere recap: 'Soiree in the Swamp'

A recap of the opener of Season 11 of 'Top Chef,' as we head to New Orleans for frog, turtle and alligator

• Maryland

Mummies give voice to the past

• Harford

Harford council approves apartments for Plumtree

The Harford County Council upheld a zoning hearing examiner's decision to grant a special exception for a developer to build 198 apartments at Plumtree Road.

• Anne Arundel

Tracking Maryland's biodiversity, one creature at a time

Pasadena resident Bill Hubick and Jim Brighton of Easton launched the Maryland Biodiversity Project, an effort to do something no one has ever done — catalog examples of every living thing in Maryland on one website: marylandbiodiversity.com.

• Maryland

Union Bridge officials hope state OKs Little Pipe Creek trail plan

• Opinion

It's not too late to act on climate change

Maryland has taken a leadership role with a comprehensive plan to address climate realities; now others must follow our example

• Environment

Kent Island project again seeks approval

Six years after Gov. Martin O'Malley tried to kill the project, state officials will ask the Board of Public Works Wednesday to reverse itself and approve permits that would let a developer move forward with what would be the largest housing development in the environmentally sensitive areas surrounding the Chesapeake Bay.

• Harford

Joppa church's property in cross-hairs for I-95 expansion

Even though a state project to add express toll lanes to I-95 in Harford County, and possibly build a new park-and-ride lot near the highway interchange with Route 152 (Mountain Road) in the Joppa area, is years away, state transportation officials are continuing their quest for environmental permits.

• Environment

Alarming declines seen in frogs, salamanders

A nine-year federal survey of frogs, toads, salamanders and the like found widespread precipitous declines in their populations but drew no conclusions about why.

• Baltimore City Paper

Eight places to sleep outdoors within a 90-minute drive from Baltimore

• TV

'The Amazing Race' finale recap, Bates and Anthony win it all

Anthony head butts Bates right in the stomach. Bates says that he lost the Stanley Cup, so he's happy to finally win something.

• Environment

Volunteers pour into Fort McHenry wetlands to clean up

More than 100 gloved volunteers, some in boots and others in waist-high waders, streamed along the narrow paths, sandy waters' edges and historic sea walls of a hard-to-spot nook of wetlands at the southern end of Fort McHenry in Locust Point on Saturday — their eyes scanning for trash or the perfect spot to plant a sapling.

• Education

Setting new 'green' standards at Linton Springs Elementary School

It was Dirty Finger Club Day at Linton Springs Elementary School, near Eldersburg. Out in the vegetable garden ¿ one of a dozen "outdoor classrooms" in the meadows, wetlands and woodlands of school's spacious grounds ¿ Anna Letaw, a volunteer who has been the dynamo behind Linton Springs' Environmental Education Program, was giving a kindergarten class a primer on gardening.

• Baltimore City Paper

A disappearing island shows what rising sea levels mean for the Chesapeake Bay

• Harford

Bel Air does well to reject floodplain development [Commentary]

The Bel Air Planning Commission's decision last week to deny permission for the construction of 48 townhouses on a portion of a property owned by St. Matthew Lutheran Church was a sound move

• Wetlands

Harford turns out for annual Bosely Conservancy cleanup

About 40 youths from the Freestate ChalleNGe Academy finished up their morning of cleaning refuse from the marshlands of the Melvin G. Bosely Wildlife Conservancy tired, muddy and hungry, but their contributions to the 22nd annual cleanup of the marsh were invaluable to the organizers of Saturday's event.