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Chesapeake Bay

The United States' largest estuary, a drowned valley of the Susquehanna River. The Chesapeake Bay is a grand highway - a highway for migratory fish and fowl, a highway for transportation and commerce, and a highway of our Nation's history. It is also home to indigenous marine species, watermen, farmers, military, and folks who love the quiet beauty of the Bay.

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Pepper Langley Fishing Pier at Solomons Island
Bay Scenes
Female blue crab (Callinectes sapidus) on beach
Beautiful Swimmer - The Blue Crab
A middle school field trip at Camp Riverview
Conserving and Learning
A female Diamondback terrapin, Malaclemys terrapin, puts the final touches onher freshly laid nest of eggs
Critters
NWS employee Sarah Roy faces an onslaught of cabin cruisers and an impendingstorm as she nears the end of a 25-mile trek down the Patuxent River
Fun and Suns
Erosion along a Patuxent River marsh area has created a series of arches
Problems
A Patuxent River sunset
Sunrise and Sunset on the Bay
Arrow arum (the broadleaf plant) and saltmarsh cordgrass (spartina alternaflora)
Wetlands

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Osprey - Panion haliaetus

Osprey - Panion haliaetus

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V-formation of Canada geese flying over the upper Patuxent River at dawn

V-formation of Canada geese flying over the upper Patuxent River...

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The Northern Water Snake -  Nerodia sipedon sipedon - a common, non-venoemouswater snake

The Northern Water Snake - Nerodia sipedon sipedon - a common...

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The semi-aquatic Eastern Mud Turtle, Kinosternon subrubrum subrubrum, is themud turtle found in the Chesapeake Bay area

The semi-aquatic Eastern Mud Turtle, Kinosternon subrubrum...

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Young naturalist inspecting a horseshoe crab shell

Young naturalist inspecting a horseshoe crab shell. The carapace...

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A middle school field trip at Camp Riverview

A middle school field trip at Camp Riverview

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Juvenile human inspecting juvenile alligator snapping turtles

Juvenile human inspecting juvenile alligator snapping turtles.

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Passing knowledge of the bay and its ways from generation to generation

Passing knowledge of the bay and its ways from generation to...

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