Join the Maryland Coastal Bays Program for our final Discover Your Watershed (DYW) event of 2023! The DYW will take place on Saturday, December 2nd from 9:30 - 11:00 am at our  Showell Property. We will be removing the notorious invasive species, wisteria, from various areas around the site. This restoration site is part

Please join the Maryland Coastal Bays Program and the Lower Shore Land Trust for "Elevating the Nature of Living Landscapes" with special presenter Rick Darke. Attendees will hear from Rick on the importance of landscapes being a livable outdoor space, where people can gather, relax, and explore, and how best to accomplish that goal.  

Maryland Coastal Bays Program will host a public meeting on the Jenkins Point Restoration Project on Monday, Jan. 29 at 6 p.m. in the Clubhouse Meeting Room on 100 Clubhouse Drive.   MCBP held a public meeting on the subject last May, and the Jan. 29 meeting will serve as an update, including presentation of

“Stormwater and Yard Waste: Lawn Care for Water Quality” Part 1 of the spring Talk and Walk series at the Berlin Library. What do lawns have to do with water quality? Come hear a talk with Jennifer Dindinger, Watershed Restoration Specialist with UMD Sea Grant Extension, and learn about ways you can manage your lawn

“Rain Gardens: Getting Down to Business” Part 2 of the spring Talk and Walk series at the Berlin Library. Do I need a rain garden? Are rain gardens just big wet spots in my yard? Maybe, and no! Come hear a talk with Jennifer Dindinger, Watershed Restoration Specialist with UMD Extension, and learn about the

The Maryland Coastal Bays Program is looking for dedicated volunteers to join the Stranded Spawning Horseshoe Crab Recovery Team. Volunteers will be responsible for routinely checking popular spawning grounds to rescue stranded or flipped horseshoe crabs during the spawning season from May to July. This volunteer program helps prevent mass casualties of horseshoe crabs and

We are looking for volunteers to help plant grasses generously donated by the West Ocean City Association. We ask that all volunteers wear close-toed shoes, appropriate outdoor clothing, bring their own reusable water bottle, bug spray, and gardening gloves if they'd like to. MCBP will have tools available to help dig holes. Volunteers will need

Islands serve as critical habitat to numerous iconic species found in the Maryland Coastal Bays. Throughout the last several decades, island loss and the impacts it has on species like colonial nesting bird populations have been alarming. But there is still hope to restore these once abundant islands and the populations of our colonial nesting

James Farm Ecological Preserve in Ocean View, DE The Maryland Coastal Bays Program (MCBP) and the Delaware Center for the Inland Bays (Center)  are excited to offer “Journey Up the Coast: An In-Person Exploration of the DE Inland and MD Coastal Bays” for children ages 6-12 this summer! This unique “bay-hop” education program will include

Come out for a Community Beach Clean up on Tuesday, September 17th  from 8-10 am, 94th Street in front of the tennis courts. We will be working to pick up trash on the beach and surrounding streets. Check in and pick up for materials. There will be tables set up with all the equipment needed