In The News

Erik Torvald Jansson, an environmental activist and local preservationist, died Friday, June 27, at his residence, Mulberry Fields.

Yeatman, Jesse. "Jansson, Environmentalist and Preservationist, Dies at 67" The Enterprise
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
http://somdnews.com/stories/07022008/entemor161936_32178.shtml

Friends remembered the quiet, unassuming man this week, and wondered whether some of the organizations he was so much a part of could continue on after his death. Jansson would have turned 68 on July 26. 

Cardin, Mikulski, 2 Va. senators call for federal aid

Associated Press. "Disaster Status Urged For Crabs" Baltimore Sun
Thursday, June 26, 2008
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bay_environment/bal-md.crabs26jun...

Maryland and Virginia's U.S. senators say there's no time to waste in declaring the decline of Chesapeake Bay blue crabs a federal disaster. 

Students tracing 350-mile St. Mary's watershed area

Yeatman, Jesse. "Tracking What Happens Along River" The Enterprise
Friday, June 13, 2008
http://www.somdnews.com/stories/06132008/entetop173221_32148.shtml

Workers this summer will try to document all 350 miles of the St. Mary's River watershed in hopes of creating a protection and restoration strategy...

Longtime advocate says, ‘We will save this river, trust me'

Mitrano, Erica. "Fowler: Patuxent ‘on death row'" The Enterprise
Wednesday, June 11, 2008

http://www.somdnews.com/stories/06112008/entetop161046_32188.shtml