September 25^th from 7pm until 10pm. Join staff from the Jug Bay Wetlands Sanctuary for a nightime paddle from Hill’s Bridge to River Farm. Trip is limited to 12 participants and prior kayaking experience is required. We will head up all the channels, listen for marsh birds and frogs and fish that splash. Should be a lot of fun, and an different experience for those who only kayak in the sun. Preferred if you can bring your own kayak. Keep Reading

Patuxent Riverkeeper has received reports lately of two unrelated individuals who became sick at different times in the past week after coming into contact with some bacteriological agent that appears to be in the Patuxent river near Broome’s Island.  Initial reports from individuals (who have insisted on keeping their identities from public disclosure) suggested a known bacteriological infection known as: “vibrio parahaemolyticus”.  Our Keep Reading

Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler will visit the Patuxent River on Tuesday, July 13, 2010, as he continues his ongoing audit of the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries.  Since beginning his statewide tour and audit of the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries in April 2008, the Attorney General has visited ten Maryland rivers.

Attorney General Gansler will spend the day in Prince Frederick and Solomons Island Keep Reading

Several people have contacted us to inquire about how to rank or score the track record of legislators who supported the recent weakening of the stormwater rules through a “compromise” in the MD General Assembly. Using the term “compromise” as a euphemism for weakening of the regulation is a variety of “spin” that should be made clearer. The notion of compromise suggests the environment got something out Keep Reading