WBOC

Blackwater Refuge Soars to 90 Years With Eagle Festival

CAMBRIDGE, Md. - The Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge turns 90 this year and is celebrating with the return of their in-person Eagle Festival. The Refuge, established in 1933, will host live ...
Men's Journal

Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge

View post: John Lennon’s Son Worries That Gen Z Will 'Forget' The Beatles Sweat spiked with sunblock dribbles down my face and stings my eyes as the sun hammers me and everything else in Eastern ...
Star Democrat

Blackwater refuge begins prescribed burning habitat program for winter

CAMBRIDGE Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge has begun its prescribed fire program for this winter. The Blackwater fire crew, assisted by Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forestry and ...
Capital Gazette

Blackwater Wildlife Refuge adds 400 acres along the Nanticoke River

Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge on the Eastern Shore is growing by more than 400 acres with the federal government’s purchase of two pieces of land along the Nanticoke River. The land, purchased ...
WBOC

Rare Goose Spotted in Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge

CAMBRIDGE, MD - The Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge had a very unique visitor this week with a first-time bird sighting of a pink-footed goose. The Refuge says the rare bird was spotted yesterday, ...
Yahoo

This Small Town in Maryland Is the Perfect Late Fall Getaway—and It's Less Than 2 Hours From Washington, D.C.

Book a room at Hyatt Regency Chesapeake Bay Golf Resort, Spa and Marina, a Travel + Leisure World's Best Awards winner. Explore the four land trails in Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge by bike or ...
DelmarvaNow

Try Blackwater Refuge for good whitetail, sika hunting

Hunting always looms just a bit larger and closer when it's time to start thinking about deer hunting at Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge. You can find some good whitetail hunting and some of the ...
Star Democrat

Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge to hold virtual Eagle Festival

CAMBRIDGE — Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge is hosting a virtual Eagle Festival March 12-14. With the pandemic and continuing need for social distancing, this year’s activities will be conducted ...
NBC Washington

Changing Chesapeake: Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge Could Vanish

The Chesapeake Bay is swallowing up hundreds of acres of coastline so quickly experts say low-lying areas like Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge will probably vanish within our lifetimes. “When we ...
The Washington Post

Honk If You Like Wildlife

WE ARRIVE at Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge later than we expect -- only a half-hour before sunset. The tree-rimmed, marshy setting is soothing and serene and feels much farther from Washington ...
DelmarvaNow

At Blackwater refuge, rising sea levels drown habitat

The view from the observation deck over a meadow of brown marsh grasses would make a nice postcard. Eagles roost on tall pines, muskrats burrow in mounds of mud and straw, and black ducks splash in a ...