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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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Flooding of low-lying areas by extreme high tides

Flooding of low-lying areas by extreme high tides. If sea level...

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Flooding of low-lying areas by extreme high tides

Flooding of low-lying areas by extreme high tides. If sea level...

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Ice marks the high tide line on these pier pilings

Ice marks the high tide line on these pier pilings.

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Ice along the shore at the old steamboat landing at Holland Cliffs Shores

Ice along the shore at the old steamboat landing at Holland...

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Ice at old steamboat landing and covering the river at Holland Cliffs Shores

Ice at old steamboat landing and covering the river at Holland...

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Open water between the high and low tide lines at Holland Cliffs Shores

Open water between the high and low tide lines at Holland Cliffs...

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A wintry vista along a frozen snow-covered Patuxent River

A wintry vista along a frozen snow-covered Patuxent River

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The harbor at Port Isobel

The harbor at Port Isobel.

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