Family fun, food and entertainment await visitors to the 13th annual Blackbird Creek Fall Festival on Saturday, October 16, 2021. The Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control’s Delaware National Estuarine Research Reserve (DNERR) hosts the festival at the reserve, along the banks of Blackbird Creek. The festival will take place rain or shine, […]
Continue ReadingThe Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control has closed the Port Mahon Fishing Pier off Port Mahon Road east of Dover until further notice for emergency repairs after a broken support piling was found during a routine inspection. The pier’s closure by the DNREC Division of Fish and Wildlife is a precautionary safety […]
Continue ReadingContest Highlights Woodland Beach Wildlife Area From May through mid-August, the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control invited photographers and nature lovers to submit their best photographs taken on the Tony Florio Woodland Beach Wildlife Area and the adjoining Aquatic Resources Education Center (AREC) near Smyrna. Now the results are in for this […]
Continue ReadingThe Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control is pleased to announce three new Delaware State Parks leaders. Mika Drake is now the superintendent at Bellevue and Fox Point state parks, Nicole Worthley is the new cultural conservation program manager at the First State Heritage Park and Mark Wise has been named superintendent of […]
Continue ReadingIn April of 2021 photographer Steve Atkinson began a new photographic project, Chesapeake Country Roads. Now he is announcing the publication of a 16-month Wall Calendar of these photographs. Most of the photographs were taken in Kent and Queen Anne’s Counties. The calendar can be purchased at the Website ChesapeakeCountryRoads.com/Calendar. Even though he had been […]
Continue ReadingRidgely and Sudlersville on Maryland’s Eastern Shore are just two of the towns that holds a piece of their heritage to the Railroads of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. Delaware and Virginia’s Eastern Shore has many, including the Delaware town of Harrington. When you mention Harrington, many think of the Casino or the […]
Continue ReadingVisitors will be welcomed at the DuPont Nature Center at Mispillion Harbor Reserve when it reopens for the season Saturday, May 1, 2021. The Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control facilitywill be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday and is closed Mondays. COVID-19 safety protocols will be in place, […]
Continue ReadingIn honor of Earth Month, Gov. John Carney joined Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control Secretary Shawn Garvin on April 15, 2021 to tour the facility where Delaware State Parks will have 15 benches made from excess plastic bags. In 2020, the DNREC Division of Parks and Recreation converted its plastic carry-in carry-out bags […]
Continue ReadingA new online resource to help Delawareans take the guesswork out of recycling has been unveiled by theDelaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control. The new tool, Recyclopedia, helps the public and businesses determine the quickest and easiest ways to recycle materials that would otherwise go to a landfill. The web-based application offers an […]
Continue ReadingDelaware’s statewide one-day turkey hunt for youth ages 10 to 15 and for non-ambulatory disabled hunters requiring a wheelchair will be held Saturday, April 3, 2021 followed by the four-week spring turkey hunting season from Saturday, April 10 through Saturday, May 8. The Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control reminds turkey hunters that […]
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