Earth Day Clean Up OC
Ocean City Town Hall 101 3rd Street, Ocean City, MDJoin us and celebrate 50 years of Earth Day by picking up trash before it goes into our beach and bays. We'll provide you with supplies and shirts while supplies last. For more information email sandis@mdcoastalbays.org.
Discover Your Watershed – Showell Nature Preserve – On the Prowl at Showell
At MCBP, we make it a priority to provide opportunities to community members and visitors of all ages to explore and expand their knowledge of our watershed’s restoration properties. Community exposure broadens public knowledge, and this knowledge helps ensure commitment to the longevity of those projects and support for future projects. This mindset inspired an
Giving Tuesday – Online Event
Donate now 2021 marks the 25th Anniversary for the Maryland Coastal Bays Program. Funding and events for the year will center around saving our coastal bay birds. Three species of endangered birds make the Maryland coastal bays their home: Royal Terns, Common Terns (yep not so common anymore), and the Black Skimmers (Photo Credit
Giving Tuesday – Order Carryout and Support our Birds
Partial proceeds from orders will go to Maryland Coastal Bays Program (MCBP) Get a Raffle ticket for a prize basket by donating $25 or more to ShoreGivesMore Call (410) 213-0037 and mention you are supporting Maryland Coastal Bays Program to make your order count Order through their app for a Drive-thru Mollie Order - Curbside
Give-A-Day for the Bays:COASTAL CALENDAR CHALLENGE
Are you ready to get to know your Coastal Bays waterways?! As part of this month's Give-A-Day for the Coastal Bays, we are encouraging folks to explore and learn more about the Coastal Bays watershed using the new Coastal Calendar Challenge. Although this calendar can be started at any time, we hope you will give a day back to the bays this January by beginning to
Give A Day to the Bays:Field Journaling Training and iNaturalist
Nature Journaling: Nature journaling is a priceless tool for observation, questioning, and for documenting curiosity. At some point in our lives, we all engage in journaling. Maybe that takes the form of a diary, memory book, or simply just taking notes. When we journal, we preserve thoughts, inquires, and memories. But one of the most beneficial things
Give-A-Day to the Bays:Market Madness
It's Market Madness Month - Support your local farmer markets and watermen As we head into Spring, for this month’s “Give-A-Day” back to MCBP, we encourage you to explore our watershed’s local farmer and seafood markets for your spring and summer cravings! When possible, buying food from local sources is a great way to reduce
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