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River Mud Blog
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- Author: Swamp Thing
- Listed in: Green Outdoor Recreation
- Tags: wildlife ducks restoration habitat wetland
- Added on: Jan 19th, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
Outdoor adventures and discoveries from the Chesapeake Bay. GET DIRTY!
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Old Timey Sunday
Jerusalem Gun Works, ca. 1771We spent sunday afternoon at Jerusalem Mill Village, a section of Gunpowder State Park in Central Maryland. The site was colonized by tobacco-growing English folks, notably Mr. Hempstead (Hampstead, Maryland is about 25 ...
Finger Lakes Amphibians
American Toad, Brown Phase. Further south, American Toads are typically much darker, earning them the misnomer "Red Toad." This guy was hanging out on a woodpile, waiting for a cricket to show up. From the looks of him, he enjoys a pretty high su...
New York Finger Lakes Invertebrates
In my class this week, we spent a lot of time looking at recently restored and created wetlands. In areas where a lot of habitat has been lost, it is really amazing how quickly the native plants and wildlife find their way to new wetlands and meado...
Heading North and Upslope
Photo by Joe BraunI'm headed north to the NY Finger Lakes for a 5 day course in wetland construction. Wait - before the terminology police get me - it's a course on "the delivery of restored and created wetlands using construction equipment." The not...
Paddling in the Land of Pleasant Living
In the late 1800s, Maryland was called "The Land of Pleasant Living." Now that millions of people live here, and the Chesapeake Bay is extremely polluted and overfished, that motto has been relegated to cans and 40oz bottles of National Bohemian be...
