by Admin | Jul 6, 2021 | Lightning Update
A technical graphic shows the Bay’s outflow plume throughout the year.Credit: University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science For several decades the health of the Chesapeake Bay has been understood to be linked to the 64,000 square mile watershed....
by Jonathan Doherty | Jun 29, 2021 | Lightning Update
Why a photo of the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon? A recent experience there leads to this reflection on the value of wilderness. Wilderness. I’ve strayed from it in recent decades – the experience and the concept. Not long ago, I wrote “the rose-colored glasses...
by Admin | Jun 22, 2021 | Lightning Update
Visitors pile into Cunningham Falls State Park.Credit: Baltimore Sun/Barbara Haddock Taylor “Nobody goes there any more. It’s too crowded.” This line often attributed to baseball great Yogi Berra is really traced back to England in the late 1800’s. But it is very...
by Admin | Jun 15, 2021 | Lightning Update
Bilingual Ranger Julian Segovia leading a seine net program for Latinx youthCredit: Will Grinnell/Chesapeake Conservancy Ahhhhh, June! With the turn of the calendar comes the end of the school year; the beginnings of longer, warmer days and firefly-visited, starry...
by Admin | Jun 8, 2021 | Lightning Update
The Biden administration’s budget contains encouraging signals for conservation funding.Credit: Roger Helmer, MEP On May 28 the Biden administration released its budget proposals for fiscal year 2022. Coinciding with the President’s proclamation of June as Great...
by Admin | Jun 1, 2021 | Lightning Update
Protecting landscapes like this may require accounting for the financial benefits.Credit: Chesapeake Bay Foundation John Griffin, Tim Male A major theme of the Chesapeake Conservation Partnership’s 2016 Annual Working Meeting was “Growing the Pie.” Translation:...
by Admin | May 25, 2021 | Lightning Update
One philanthropist built thousands of schools for African-Americans in the era of Jim Crow. (Photos: EHT Traceries) As our nation struggles to address a record of racial conflicts and challenges, we may gain encouragement by reflecting on positive stories of the past....
by Admin | May 18, 2021 | Lightning Update
This week, Lighting Update welcomes its new writer, Warren Brown. Along with appearances of some guest writers, Warren will now be the regular writer of Lightning Update. Warren had an illustrious career with the National Park Service, including as the Chief of Park...
by Jonathan Doherty | May 11, 2021 | Lightning Update
Last week’s Lighting Update shared some reflections on “pushing boundaries.” In part II of some closing observations, I feel compelled to write of the lessons and people who have taught me as a conservationist. Where does a whole landscape sensibility come from? How...
by Jonathan Doherty | May 4, 2021 | Lightning Update
After writing weekly Lightning Updates for almost three years, I’m about to enter a new post-full-time-job phase of life. Perhaps you will pardon my using this and next week’s updates for some personal observations. Here’s part I. I’ve been reflecting on forty years...
