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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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A Patuxent River Great Blue Heron nesting site, or heronry

A Patuxent River Great Blue Heron nesting site, or heronry.

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Footprints in the sand

Footprints in the sand.

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Footprints in the sand

Footprints in the sand. The large footprint at the top was...

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A female diamondback terrapin, probably looking for a good place to deposither eggs

A female diamondback terrapin, probably looking for a good place...

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A well-camouflaged Leopard Frog sitting near the edge of a salt water creek

A well-camouflaged Leopard Frog sitting near the edge of a salt...

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Horseshoe crabs coming into the shallows at Flag Ponds Nature Park, aunit of Montgomery County, Maryland, public schools

Horseshoe crabs coming into the shallows at Flag Ponds Nature...

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A Class B pair of horseshoe crabs spawning in the shallows atFlag Ponds Nature Park, a unit of Montgomery County, Maryland, public schools

A Class B pair of horseshoe crabs spawning in the shallows atFlag...

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Horseshoe crabs coming into the shallows at Flag Ponds Nature Park, aunit of Montgomery County, Maryland, public schools

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