Discover Your Watershed
Ilia Fehrer Nature Preserve Interested in exploring a nature preserve right here in Worcester County?! If the answer is "YES, of course!", then come out and join us for the 1st installment of the 2021 Discover Your Watershed series at Ilia Fehrer Nature Preserve! Our program focus is Travel and Trails. We will be
Give-A-Day for the Bays:Bay Beautifications
This springtime! Time to celebrate native plants and native plant sales! Put a plant in your yard or in a flowerpot outside to pollinate. Nature can use all the help it can get! One of the best resources for celebrating native plants is the University of Maryland Extension The University of Maryland Extension is
Give-A-Day for the Bays:Horseshoe Crabs
This month we honor the Horseshoe Crabs, have you seen them at the beach yet? MCBP assists the Department of Natural Resources with an annual horseshoe survey. Click here for more details. June marks the beginning of spawning season for these amazing prehistoric inhabitants of our waterways. And this species has been saving our lives
Discover Your Watershed
Lizard Hill Restoration Site Come one, come all to the beautiful Lizard Hill Restoration Site. We hope you will join us for the 2nd installment of the 2021 Discover Your Watershed series at Lizard Hill! Our program is called Invasive Invasion, and will be working to remove invasive plants that have begun to encroach
Give-A-Day for the Bays:Help Needed for our Horseshoe Crab
Hundreds of thousands of horseshoe crabs (Limulus polyphemus) die each year from stranding (stuck upside down) during their yearly spawning ritual. This year has become a very
Give-A-Day for the Bays:Adopt Your Beach/Adopt Your Street
Throughout the 2021 year, MCBP is releasing a monthly theme that provides an opportunity for the community to involve themselves with our program, projects, and watershed in a self-paced manner. We are encouraging everyone to "give-a-day" once a month towards the improvement our amazing Coastal Bays watershed! This month's theme is trash clean ups, and we
Discover Your Watershed
Assateague Living Shoreline Join MCBP for the 3rd installment of the 2021 Discover Your Watershed series at the beautiful Assateague Living Shoreline! Our program focus for this site is Shoreline Scavenge. Attendees will receive a tour of the restoration site and embark on the scavenger hunt through the various ecosystems that make up the Living
Movie Night to Celebrate the Bays
Windmill Creek Vineyard & Winery 11206 Worcester Hwy, BerlinGet Tickets Should you experience any difficulties purchasing tickets online, please contact us at mcbp@mdcoastalbays.org or call 410-213-2297 ext 106. Thank you. Rain/Wind Date: October 7, 2021. Maryland Coastal Bay Programs is excited to be hosting an outdoor movie night for our 25th-anniversary event at the Windmill Creek Winery & Vineyard. Bring the whole family to enjoy an outdoor feature
Give-A-Day for the Bays:Birds, Bats and Bugs
Birds, bats, bees, bugs… oh my! As we dive into fall, let’s take a moment to acknowledge some unsung heroes of spring and summer... pollinators! Pollination occurs when pollen is carried from the male part of a flower (stamen) to the female part (stigma) of another flower. When this happens, the plant is now fertilized
Give-A-Day for the Bays:Recycling
Welcome to November's Give-A-Day and our topic of RECYCLING! So, what the heck does recycling even mean?! Well, in the U.S., recycling means collecting materials that would otherwise be thrown away as trash and remanufacturing them into new products. There are many economic and environmental benefits to recycling and November 15th specifically (America's Recycle Day)
Give A Day
Lewis Road Kayak Launch invasive species removal.
The Outstanding Oyster
Please join us for an afternoon of learning about the history of oysters in our Coastal Bays, the importance of them to our watershed, and current citizen-led efforts to help understand and restore these amazing creatures. This program will take place at Archer Oyster Company in George Island Landing on Friday, May 6th from 1:30-3:00