The map will serve a double purpose of helping target stretches of rivers ... Chesapeake in a major — and until recently unexpected — way, said Joe Wood, senior Virginia scientist with the bay ...

The 2023/2024 Chesapeake Bay and Watershed Report Card, issued July 9 at the Susquehanna River Basin Commission ... in the eastern shore of Maryland and Virginia, where about 40% of land use ...

The grant money will allow the Chesapeake Bay foundation to create an interactive map of Virginia that highlights stretches of streams and rivers with critical freshwater mussel habitat.