Gliding and learning in the state's $4.3 million floating laboratory

November 16, 2008

There may be a swifter, quieter, smoother ride on the Chesapeake Bay, but you'd have to know a dolphin to snag one.

Recent columns

• Md. officials should throw lifeline to depleted stock of brook trout

  November 9, 2008

  Right now, there are worse things than being a Maryland brook trout, I suppose.

• At sanctuary, migrating hawks are a flight to see

  November 2, 2008

  These are exciting times on the wind-swept ridge of Blue Mountain, both in the sky and down below.

• Candidates' shot at hunting mostly a miss

  October 26, 2008

  So my boss, a nice enough fellow, wanders up to my cubbyhole the other day with an idea for a column: Lay out the positions of Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama on outdoors issues.

• Emotions bruin: a soft spot for one bear

  October 21, 2008

  A confession: At this year's black bear hunt, I am rooting for the bear.

• Baby oysters settling in as newest bay residents

  October 19, 2008

  Take 10,000 tons of concrete - in fist-sized and car-sized chunks - slather it with a layer of old shells and garnish with 500,000 baby oysters. What do you have? A recipe for Chesapeake Bay success, environmentalists and anglers hope.

• State's fiscal hits on NRP are getting out of hand

  October 12, 2008

  At first glance, the O'Malley administration's proposed cuts at the Department of Natural Resources for the remainder of the fiscal year seem rather mild.

• Bully moose: Intimidation is unacceptable

  October 5, 2008

  "We're going to burn your building down ... if you keep talking like that."

• Harboring hope for cleaner water

  September 28, 2008

  The day couldn't have been nicer. Gauzy clouds dotted an otherwise crisp blue sky. Just a wisp of a breeze and a gentle late-summer sun rounded things out.

• Deer appetite endangering wildlife

  August 17, 2008

  As fragile ecosystems go, Soldiers Delight might be Maryland's Faberge egg -- rare, beautiful and valuable.

• Loch Raven overflowing ... with deer

  July 20, 2008

  To the folks who don't want to extend the bow deer-hunting season at Baltimore's reservoirs to include Loch Raven, here's a suggestion: Take a hike.