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Quick! Before They’re All Gone …
Photo by Vivian Zumstein
Not Just for Kids - Maples are the most dramatic fall dressers. Often shot through with red, yellow and orange all in the same leaf, maples have three major points with two minor points closer to the stem. The edges are ragged.

Our Ailing Bay Takes a Turn for the Worse in 2003
We’ve got the way, but not will, to do better, Bay Foundation says
by SOM
Tables Turned
Grading the Chesapeake Bay Foundation
by SOM
Growing St. Leonard
A community with a past tries for a future
by Sara Ebenreck
Earth Journal ~ Between Seasons
by M.L. Faunce

Way Downstream
In Annapolis, Four new Gateways make 127 parks, refuges, ports, museums and trails in the Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network…
In Virginia, the Potomac River oyster harvest bottoms out — at zero…

This week’s Creature Feature: In Key West, the Conch Republic is raising babies.

A Bay Weekly Advertising Special
Celebrate the fall season, and get ready to nestle in for winter.

What’s a Zoo Without Elephants? It’s a Chesapeake Bay without rockfish. Your Say: A New Oyster for Our Bay? If You Can Get ‘Em, Freeze ‘Em Sinking Bay Health Calls Us to Arms

by C.D. Dollar Familiarity Breeds Successful Fishing Quick! Before They’re All Gone… by Vivian I. Zumstein Mindless Musings by Vivian I. Zumstein