Maryland Bay Grasses in the News - 2007

• June 2007 - Large Scale Bay Grass Restoration Efforts Continue with Eelgrass Seed Collection.  Read more...
  
  
• March 2007 – Maryland Bay Grasses Decline In 2006 Survey consistent with Bay-wide results; Susquehanna Flats beds remain healthy.  Read more...
  
  
• March 2007 – Significant Underwater Bay Grass Acreage Lost in 2006 Despite Bay-wide declines, large beds on the Susquehanna Flats remain dens. Read more...
  
  
• January 2007 - Bay Grasses in Classes Kicks Off Tenth Season with Teacher Trainings in January.  Read more...
  
  
• January 2007 - Natural recovery of bay grasses is encouraging. Read more...
  
  
• January 2007 - - Environmentally important underwater grass beds facing global crisis Often out of sight and out of mind for both the public and resource managers,
  underwater grass beds face a “global crisis” as their coastal habitats are dramatically altered by human activities, a new study says. Read more...
  

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Maryland Bay Grasses in the News - 2006

• December 2006 - Rifle-toting crab scrapers, dying grasses don’t dash hopes for bay I don't remember bay grasses growing thick and lush throughout Tangier Sound, stretching nearly from one island to the next. Read more...
  
  
• September 2006 – Underwater grasses at the tipping point? If someone had placed a bull’s-eye on a map identifying the hot spot for waterfowl a century ago, it would have been the Chesapeake Bay Read more…
  
  
• August 2006 – SAV beds show improvement in parts of the Middle Bay, Virginia tributaries. In addition to these improvement in the middle bay, SAV beds in some of Virginia’s western shore freshwater areas are thriving. Read more…
  
  
• July 2006 - Large Scale Bay Grass Restoration Efforts Continue with Eelgrass Seed Collection There are areas of the Bay where water quality has improved sufficiently to support bay grasses, yet a lack of seeds prevents recolonization of these areas. Establishing large beds using seeds collected from healthy beds elsewhere could lead to vigorous natural revegetation in adjoining areas.   Read More...
  
  
• June 2006 - The Bay Grasses in Classes Program Wraps Up Ninth Season! The Department of Natural Resources, (DNR) in partnership with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF), has completed its ninth season of the Bay Grasses in Classes (BGIC) program. Since its inception in 1998, over 1,404 classes and 36,050 students have been involved in the Bay Grasses in Classes program. During this time students have planted over 2.75 acres of bottom surface in the Bay with the 475,000 plants grown in their classrooms. Read More…
  
  
• January 12, 2006 - Bay Grasses in Classes Kick off Ninth Season with Teacher Trainings in January.
  

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Maryland Bay Grasses in the News - 2005

• December 2005 DNR Continues Bay Grass Restoration Efforts with Eelgrass Seed Dispersal in the Patuxent and Potomac Rivers.
   
• September 2005 DNR Continues Restoration Efforts in Harness Creek, South River with the addition of 0.41 million oyster spat to existing reef from the Oyster Recovery Partnership.
   
• Fall 2005 SAV Newsletter
  
  
• July-August 2005 Building a Better Grass Bed: Millions of seeds sown along with hopes for reaping hundreds or underwater acres
  
  
• June 13, 2005 DNR Continues Bay Grass Restoration Efforts with Eelgrass Seed Collection in Tangier Sound
  
  
• June 6, 2005 The Bay Grasses in Classes Program Wraps Up Eighth Season!



• May 26, 2005 Regional Variations Present Mixed Picture on Health of Chesapeake Bay Underwater Grasses: Upper Bay grasses continue decade-long improvement; lower Bay shows decline Chesapeake Bay Program
   
• May 16, 2005 Governor Ehrlich Announces Board of Public Works Approval of a Contract to Harvest Eelgrass Seeds in Tangier Sound: More meadows of bay grass are essential to Chesapeake Bay restoration

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Maryland Bay Grasses in the News - 2004

• July 2004 - Watermen at Work for the Bay: forging partnerships to protect aquatic habitats and the fisheries that need them.
   
• June 3, 2004 DNR Using Innovative Bay Grass Restoration Techniques
   
• May 18, 2004 Maryland Bay Grass Acreage Drops More Than 40 Percent in 2003
  

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Maryland Bay Grasses in the News - 2003

• June 10, 2003 Chesapeake Bay Trust Presents DNR with $15,500 Grant For "Bay Grasses in Classes" Program

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