by admin | Feb 17, 2021 | Lightning Update
How many birds are killed by vehicles along a single stretch of rural highway? (Photos: above — Janet Griffin/Shutterstock; below — Jay Falstad) From time to time, these updates share information that may not be the best of news, but does shed light on the...
by admin | Jan 20, 2021 | Lightning Update
News and images of this week’s closures of the National Mall and its memorials, the U.S. Capitol, and public streets in Washington are arresting. And yet, there have been so many dramatic images from public open space in the past year. Park closures from the...
by admin | Jan 5, 2021 | Lightning Update
As we start a new year — following one that was so many things, but above all eye opening — it seems like a good time to think about how we make 2021 an improvement. Yes, new year resolutions can get tiresome, but they’re really just setting out some...
by admin | Dec 9, 2020 | Lightning Update
Senator Paul Sarbanes, second from left, launching the first Chesapeake Gateways in 2000. By Jonathan Doherty Paul S. Sarbanes, United States Senator from Maryland from 1977 to 2007, died on December 6. Much is already being written about this effective, kind, and...
by admin | Dec 8, 2020 | Lightning Update
John Maounis, with his beloved wife Margaret Bursaw, early this year at Tomales Bay in California. By Jonathan Doherty John Maounis, former superintendent of the National Park Service Chesapeake Office, and original co-convener of the Chesapeake Conservation...
