Severn River
Raising Oysters Returns In Full Swing To The Severn!
November 29, 2021A big thanks goes to our team of oyster growers throughout the Seven River who participate in the Marylanders Grow Oysters (MGO) program this year. Our volunteer oyster growers will be out there all winter raising our next crop of oysters under their piers. Then in June, they’ll plant their one-year old oysters on the Traces Hollow restoration […]
Read MoreWhere Are Our Oysters And What Do They Look Like?
November 24, 2021Thanks to a warm November, SRA’s Field Investigator, Jack Beckham, is preparing to start our next scientific adventure – using side-scan sonar to map oyster restoration reefs in the Severn River. Jack and his crew started mapping our existing oyster reefs – Traces Hollow, Manresa, Peach Orchard, Wade and Weems Upper – between the Rt. […]
Read MoreWe Bid Fond Farewells … And Bright New Careers!
September 15, 2021As another summer comes to an end, we shed a few tears and wish all the best to our departing staff, Field Investigator, Emi McGeady (center), and Water Quality Coordinator, Mackenzie Miller (left). Emi, with an environmental sciences degree from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, joined us as Field Investigator as part of […]
Read MoreBuild-A-Reef: 24 Million More Oysters In The Severn
September 13, 2021Boy, do we have some really great oyster restoration news in the Severn River! Thanks to private donors who love oysters, Smyth Jewelers, the Severn River Association and the Oyster Recovery Partnership have just planted 24 million baby oysters and created a new oyster restoration reef in the Severn. The new bivalve arrivals are now […]
Read MoreWhere Have All The Redheads Gone???
September 9, 2021The famous SAV Navy is a group of dedicated volunteer scientists who survey, map and identify the types of submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV) in the Severn River each summer. Susan Benac and Jackie Agnew are working through their 3rd year monitoring SAV beds at the Narrows, where they sample underwater grasses at 31 locations! In […]
Read MorePost A Sign To Protect Our Underwater Grasses?
July 20, 2021We could use a hand or two to help spread awareness about the importance of underwater grasses, the fabled submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV), in the Severn River and the Chesapeake Bay! The Severn River Association is looking for volunteers who can post these cool-looking signs (pictured at right). Can you help make arrangements to post […]
Read MoreAre Beavers Untapped Talent in Restoring the Severn?
July 19, 2021by Joan Treichel, SRA science reporter The North American beaver has been promoted from “top hat” to “eco-engineer.” So reported Scott McGill. a stream and wetland restoration expert, during a talk sponsored by the Maryland Stream Restoration Association this winter. Many aspects of the beaver’s capabilities were also reviewed by McGill’s colleague, Rachel Ortt, Eco-credits […]
Read MoreCreek-By-Creek Water Quality Reports Available
July 19, 2021Would you like to know how water quality is shaping up in your home waters? Is your local waterway suffering through dead zones (areas of low-oxygen content that can suffocate carbs and fish). We are pleased to release a series of Creek-By-Creek water quality reports that take a close look at conditions inside most of […]
Read MoreOur WQ Crew Brave The Elements – All The Elements!
July 19, 2021Well, summer 2021 has certainly arrived and with the blistering heat sea nettle season is upon us. But boy, was it cold out on the Severn River back in April when our intrepid Water Quality Monitoring Crew started tracking conditions in the Severn River. This is how our Field Investigator, Emi McGeady, WQ Crew Kathryn […]
Read MoreGEMS Expedition Weaves Its Way Through The Forests
July 19, 2021What better way to discover what makes our watershed so special than to enjoy a hike through the forests? That’s how a group of 20 Chesapeake Conservation Corps members helped create the very first GEMS Expedition hike through the Sewell Spring ecosystem at the headwaters, where the Severn Run meets the Severn River. The event […]
Read MoreCan You Help Restore Oysters To The Severn?
July 12, 2021With your support now, we can continue to re-populate the Severn River with oysters this summer to plant 20 million oyster spat-on-shell and open another oyster restoration reef. The Severn River Association is again partnering with the Oyster Recovery Partnership (ORP) this year. The Build-A-Reef campaign is part of SRA’s strategic vision to re-populate oysters […]
Read MoreHow Do We Keep Bees Happily Buzzin’ Away?
May 31, 2021There’s a reason why we have the expression, “busy bee!” Would you like to lean why nature’s best pollinators hare always buzzing, swarming and doing their pollinating thing? Join us Tuesday, June 15, for our next John Wright Speaker Series presentation for a 7 pm virtual presentation. Our guest speaker will be Master Beekepper Tim McMahon. […]
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