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Texas: The Lower Rio Grande

Tourist brochure: “One of the advantages of the Lower Rio Grande Valley is the more than 500 RV Parks.” You betcha. . . Continue reading

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November Water Quality summary

Here is the blog-posted summary of conditions from this month’s water quality testing by Diana Muller, South River Keeper, and Americorps-person Jennifer Carr (see the Washington Post for 27 November, Metro Section) on the South River. Maybe water… Continue reading

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Beavers have been beavering away . . . .

“Erik’s Beavers” (Michelsen, of course) on the middle branch of the top of Church Creek have been busy. We kayaked and pushed the kayak about as far as it would go with the very low tide Sunday, and got a good look at the new lower level of the be… Continue reading

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That’s just wrong. . . .

Great story from the Cape Verde islands.. . . .The Professional Windsurfers Association just held their final event for 2010 on our little island. They built an enclosure with concrete and metal on a turtle nesting beach. Nobody bothered to find o… Continue reading

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Chesapeake Quarterly: Can We Clean Up Our Waters? Lessons from the Corsica River

Good overview of one small watershed’s attempt to clean it up — good science plus citizen involvement. . . . a rural area with major inputs from farming and little of the suburban/high level of impervious surface that characterizes Annapolis’s w… Continue reading

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Ping, ping, ping . . .

Back in the 1980’s when we had first bought MEANDER, we brought her up to a marina on the Anacostia River, so that we could work on the boat (we lived in DC at the time).The boat was supposedly 52 feet from the water line to the top of the mast, a… Continue reading

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The Way It Was . . . and still is some places — Huntingfield Creek near Rock Hall

I’ve got a full sized version of this for anyone that wants it — 5 Mbytes bp Continue reading

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Chickens Debating Crossing the Road. . .

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South River Federation Thanks Kincey

At its General Meeting Tuesday, October 19th, the South River Federation Continue reading

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Can we get some microcystis, too??

Is the slimy, oily-looking scum on our creeks this same mycocystis?? . . . . or some other nasty old cyanobacteria? from a blog in the LA times: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2010/09/sea-otters-monterey-bay-cyanobacteria.html Sea otte… Continue reading

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