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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 redwing blackbird perching atop reeds in a Patuxent river marsh

A redwing blackbird perching atop reeds in a Patuxent river marsh...

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Pickerel weed (Pondeteria cordata) marsh in the Patuxent River

Pickerel weed (Pondeteria cordata) marsh in the Patuxent River...

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Pickerel weed (Pondeteria cordata) marsh in the Patuxent River

Pickerel weed (Pondeteria cordata) marsh in the Patuxent River...

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Tidal inlet along the western shore of the Cheasapeake Bay

Tidal inlet along the western shore of the Cheasapeake Bay.

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A storm is brewing on the lower Patuxent River

A storm is brewing on the lower Patuxent River. Shoreline...

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A foggy St

A foggy St. Mary's College of Maryland Garden of Remembrance...

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Fall colors grace St

Fall colors grace St. Johns Pond, a tidal pond off of the St...

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Charter boat Optimist stands ready at Chesapeake Beach to take its next set ofpatrons fishing on the Chesapeake Bay

Charter boat Optimist stands ready at Chesapeake Beach to take...

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