SEAFORD, DE – DNREC, the Nanticoke Watershed Alliance, the City of Seaford, and Friends of the Nanticoke River are seeking volunteers to lend a hand, picking up trash at Williams Pond from 9-11:30 a.m., Saturday, September 21, 2019 as part of DNREC’s annual Delaware Coastal Cleanup. Now in its second year, the Williams Pond cleanup […]
Continue ReadingDELAWARE CITY, DE – Fort Delaware State Park will host Escape Fort Delaware: The Disloyalty Files on September 14 and 28, 2019 from 4:30-7:00 p.m. Tickets may be purchased for $50.00 online or by phone by calling 877.987.2757. Escape Fort Delaware is a program during which participants receive a hands-on education of how they could […]
Continue ReadingThe Maryland Department of Natural Resources reports that Chesapeake Bay underwater grass abundance fared better than expected in 2018, despite extreme rainfall causing a spike in nutrients and sediments. An estimated 50,015 acres of underwater grasses were mapped in Maryland’s portion of the Chesapeake Bay. Baywide, about 91,559 acres of underwater grasses were mapped in […]
Continue ReadingDELAWARE CITY, DE – Fort Delaware State Park will host its annual prisoner-of-war (P.O.W.) living history beginning at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday, August 10 and 11, 2019. During this special weekend, Fort Delaware will come alive with re-enactors and historians dressed as they would have during the American Civil War. Visitors will be […]
Continue ReadingWILMINGTON, DE – DNREC’s Division of Parks & Recreation will host a public open house from 5-7 p.m., Tuesday, July 23, 2019 to review the Brandywine Creek State Park Trail Plan, at the Brandywine Creek State Park Nature Center, 41 Adams Dam Road, Wilmington, DE 19807. A series of maps will be on display, showing […]
Continue ReadingLEWES,DE – DNREC Secretary Shawn M. Garvin was joined by legislators, the Fort Miles Historical Association, and other supporters today at a ribbon-cutting celebrating numerous improvements at Fort Miles. The Fort Miles Museum and Historical Area has expanded with a new parking lot and paved road, enabling visitors to access the area more easily. Renovations […]
Continue ReadingDOVER, DE – DNREC’s Division of Parks & Recreation has created a draft master plan for White Clay Creek State Park, and will host an open house for the public to provide comments and ask questions. The open house will be held from 5-7 p.m. Tuesday, July 30, 2019 at Deerfield, 507 Thompson Station Road, […]
Continue ReadingJune 6th, 2019 get your bad self ready to dance to Philip Duton & The Alligators at the Chesapeake Heritage Center at 425 Piney Narrows Road in Chester, Maryland. Experience the high energy of this emerging local band. The Alligators play a broad variety of music from or about Louisiana and New Orleans with the […]
Continue ReadingDOVER, DE – DNREC’s First State Heritage Park will take a closer look at types of 18th-century music in Delaware from 9 a.m.– 4:30 p.m. Saturday, June 1, 2019 at the John Bell House on The Green. The public is invited to have some fun and sing along with “Music and Song in a Public […]
Continue ReadingThe Harry R. Hughes Center for Agro-Ecology of the University of Maryland and the Maryland Department of Natural Resources will host six public listening sessions in May to aid in the development of Maryland Forest Service’s 2020 Forest Action Plan. The plan assesses the current state of the forest resources and lays out the strategy […]
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