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Watershed Restoration Specialists
Volume 6, Issue 3 / October 2019
Inside this Issue
- Climate Pressures and Green Infrastructure — A Local Case Study
- What Would Bernie Do?
- Our Favorite Trees
- Dispatches from Sea Grant Academy
- Rain Garden Winterization
- Our Water — It Is All Connected and More Reasons To Protect It
- Water Quality and Sailing
Volume 6, Issue 2 / June 2019
Inside this Issue
- Highlighting Extension’s Work in a Baltimore City Community garden
- Walking the Talk of Equity and Inclusion
- Calvert County Supports Local Water Quality
- Watershed Stewards Academy retreat
- Money, Money, Money, Money...Money [Repeat: x 6] (think O’Jays)
- Groundwater’s Significance and Connection to Bay Water Quality
- Day Trippin’ on Delmarva
Volume 6, Issue 1 / March 2019
Inside this Issue
- Maintaining Your Septic System — the Key to an Effective and Lasting Investment
- The Watershed Assistance Collaborative — Maryland’s Water Quality Partnership
- WAC Partner Profiles: Chesapeake Bay Trust, Environmental Finance Center, Maryland Department of Natural Resources, Maryland Sea Grant and Maryland Sea Grant Extension, Maryland Department of the Environment
- Five Questions with Bill Hubbard
Volume 5, Issue 4 / December 2018
Inside this Issue
- From Gray to Green
- UMD Senate — what’s it all About?
- ‘Tis the season . . . to put your best foot forward on your Trust Fund application
- Stormwater Permit Requirements
- Need Help Educating This or the Next Generation?
- Got Septic - Do You Know What Type?
Volume 5, Issue 3 / September 2018
Inside this Issue
- ANREP Membership has its Privileges
- Welcome Kate and Kelly
- Septic Systems — More than a Flush and Forget it Home Appliance
- Korea — Maryland Sea Grant Program Information Exchange
- Central Maryland in 2080: Predicting the Future to Plan for Today
- Our New Normal? I hope not
- Social Marketing Association of North America Inaugural Forum October 10
Volume 5, Issue 2 / June 2018
Inside this Issue
- What Can I Do With the Water?
- Why the Watershed Team Is a Better Fit Than Dating Apps
- Native Plants, Get Your Native Plants!
- A Change In Plans
- Touring Baltimore’s Jones Falls Watershed With the One Water Partnership
Volume 5, Issue 1 / March 2018

Inside this Issue
- Rain Tax Sturm und Drang: Was the Fee Repeal Worth All the Storm and Stress?
- Build It and They Will Come!
- The Perfect Storm for Lake Ontario
- Sustainable is Not Good Enough
- Slurping Our Way Toward Meeting TMDL Goals
- Only Rain Down the Drain
Volume 4, Issue 2 / November 2017
Inside this Issue:
- Increasing Stormwater Best Management Practice Adoption Rates
- What is the Trust Fund?
- Small Stream, Big Impact
- Is Where You Live or Work Served by a Regulated MS4?
- Outlander!
- The Journey of a Thousand Miles
Volume 4, Issue 1 / May 2017
Inside this Issue:
- Welcome Kelsey
- Welcome Alexis
- Small BMPs can make a BIG difference
- The Power of Design
- Small but Mighty
- How Vulnerable is the Maryland Coastal Bays Program?
- WSA Eligible for MSDE Credits
Volume 3, Issue 4 / December 2016
Inside this Issue:
- Bon voyage to a wonderful friend and colleague
- Greening with consistency
- Halfway there. . . midpoint assessment draws near
- Cost share for homeowner practices? Coming soon to a city near you!
- Preparing for winter
- Who's your watershed specialist?
Volume 3, Issue 3 / August 2016
Inside this Issue:
- Bay Clarity
- Fellowship Program Accepting Applications
- Go native!
- Recent review spottedon ConfAdvisor
- Training the Next Generation
Volume 3, Issue 2 / May 2016
Inside this Issue:
- Character Stream
- A Rain Garden Sign for the Four Seasons
- Outdoor Ethics for Patagonia and Your Local Park
- Does it need a boarding pass?
- Building Resilience from the Ground Up
- The Good, the Bad, the Ugly: Pond Maintenance
Volume 3, Issue 1 / March 2016
Inside this Issue:
- Snowzilla vs. Clean Water
- The Stormwater Bachelor Returns
- SOILS – Nature’s secret weapon to achieve better water quality
- A Focus on Sea Level Rise and Coastal Inundation
Volume 2, Issue 4 / December 2015
Inside this Issue:
- Slowing the Flow at Oregon Ridge
- Hot on the Streets — the Outreach Program Audit Tool
- Seeking Tall, Attractive Native Grass to Help with Bay Clean-up
- Restoring the American Chestnut
- Risk Perceptions in Vulnerable Communities
Volume 2, Issue 3 / August 2015
Inside this Issue:
- The Susquehanna Flats: Epicenter of Research
- Landlocked: Developing a Study Abroad Course in Ethiopia
- The River Seldom Seen: Learning about the Lesser-known Choptank
- Project Based Learning with Chestnuts and Aquaculture: Professional Development for Teachers
- Adventures in Team Teaching: Educators Enliven the Green Youth Summer Program
Volume 2, Issue 2 / May 2015
Inside this Issue:
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- 4-H Bay Stewards Build Capital
- Howard County Students Take Weather to the Extreme
- Empowering Women Farmers in Afghanistan
- Stormwater Law and You
- Cecil County WSA – Off and Running!
- Southern Maryland Counties Support Watershed Restoration
- Changes to the Watershed Protection and Restoration Program, or "SB 863"
Volume 2, Issue 1 / February 2015
Inside this Issue:
- Dundalk Renaissance Corporation’s Fall Tree Give Away
- What is Social Marketing?
- Introduction to Stormwater Law and You
- The UME Land Use and Watershed Action Team
- Cecil County Stewards are Full Speed Ahead
Volume 1, Issue 4 / December 2014
Inside this Issue:
- Conservation Landscaping in Action
- SOS, SOS! Septic Owner Stewardship Clinics
- Stormwater Remediation comes to Maryland
- The Twins have Arrived!
- Watershed Assistance Collaborative
- What the Bay means to me…and a few million other Marylanders
- Chesapeake Quarterly
Volume 1, Issue 3 / August 2014
Inside this Issue:
- Finding the Food-Water Connection: Integrating Urban Agriculture and Urban Stormwater
- Designing Rain Gardens of the Future
- Marine Educators From Around The World Converge in Annapolis
- The Grass is Greener...in College Park
- From Research and Development to Implementation: Redesigning Living Roof Substrate
Volume 1, Issue 2 / May 2014
Inside this Issue:
- Spring has Sprung and Projects Abound!
- Saving the Bay…one Academy at a time
- Galesville’s Summerpalooza
- New weTable Technology Facilitates HABs Workshop
- Climate Corner: Examining the 2014 National Climate Assessment
Volume 1, Issue 1/ February 2014
Inside this Issue:
- A Tree Grows in Chestertown
- Need a Rain Garden? There’s an App for That!
- The New Website
- What’s The “Dib” with Stormwater?
- Climate Corner