Despite recent rainfall, dark clouds still loom over Maryland as a statewide burn ban remains in effect, impacting environmental management across the peninsula.

Maryland lawmakers have announced nearly $3 million in federal funds to go towards habitat and wetland restoration projects throughout Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay watershed.

For the first time since 2016, a piping plover nest was found at Gordons Pond in Cape Henlopen State Park, which has prompted a temporary closure of some of the beach.

The Maryland Department of Natural Resources and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have announced  the continuation of a northern snakehead tagging program to incentivize removal of invasive fish.

A U.S. appeals court invalidated a federal license for the Conowingo Dam in Maryland on Tuesday, sending it back to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for further proceedings.