Watershed Protection

Updated: October 17, 2023

Conservation Landscaping

A conservation landscape is a garden that improves water quality, promotes and preserves native species, and provides wildlife habitat. Conservation landscaping replaces hard surfaces or turf grass of a traditional lawn with native plants. There are many social and environmental benefits that result from installing a conservation landscape.

Updated: October 17, 2023

Downspout Redirection

Hard surfaces such as roofs increase runoff by preventing rain water from being absorbed into the ground.

Updated: October 17, 2023

Rain Barrels and Cisterns

Rain barrels and cisterns are devices that are placed at the end of downspouts to collect rainwater and store it for later use.

Updated: October 4, 2023

October 2023 WSA Newsletter

Updated: September 20, 2023

Certified Baywise Landscaping

Most Maryland residents live within a half-mile of a storm drain, stream or river. Most of those waterways eventually drain into the Chesapeake Bay.

Updated: July 25, 2023

What Happens after Phragmites is Killed? Year 2 (EBR-2023-0652)

In the second year of the project, researchers returned to the same field and mesocosm sites to evaluate the results of planting native species after Phragmites eradication. The results have led to several preliminary implications for restoration. Authors: Eric Buehl, Andrew Baldwin, Hope Brooks, Sylvia Jacobson, Karin Kettenring, Melissa McCormick, and Dennis Whigham; Title: What Happens after Phragmites is Killed? Year 2 (EBR-2023-0652)

Updated: March 13, 2023