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Soundings: Sail Day 3 (unedited)

July 9, 2014
Thursday, July 9, 2014. 0100 hours (that’s 1:00 am) Heading 60 degrees north Somewhere off Long Island Looks like tracking software has lost the link. We did not sink off Atlantic City! New tracking link: https://track.gs/F7wFD8 My two hour watch rotation was from 2300 on Day 2 ending at 0100 this morning. Perfect timing for

Soundings: Sail Day 2 (unedited)

July 9, 2014
Wednesday July 8, 2014 O230 Cape May Point Tried to share waypoint and photograph of the lighthouse and beach from the glow of the beacon, we were that close to the shore as we took a few miles off of our entrance to the ocean. Shut eye: 0300 0500 – 0800 watch duty with Lex and

Soundings: Sail Day 1

July 8, 2014
Tuesday, July 7, 2014    0830 Pre-Sail Briefing: Clements Creek Marina off the Severn River Lex Birney, Skipper Edward Parry Pete McKenna Ted Dessasaure Duncan Hood Bill Howard Weather Forecast: Chesapeake Bay from Sandy Point to North Beach MD SOUTHWEST FLOW WILL PREVAIL OVER THE WATERS TODAY. A COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH THE WATERS TONIGHT AND

Soundings: The Back Story

July 3, 2014
This story was first posted in July of 2014, but provides a little back story to my ongoing adventures on the good ship Arcadia and my good friend Lex Birney’s entry into the Annapolis Bermuda Race 2016. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch

Bobby Whitescarver Joins Downstream Board

June 25, 2014
Maybe we should all thank Bobby’s mother. “My mother was my Rachel Carson,” said new Downstream board member Bobby Whitescarver in a recent online chat. “I was one of those children that wandered off into the woods and pastures, exploring and having fun. She encouraged that, and even got me a pretty good microscope at

2014 Farm Bill: The dust settles and opportunities emerge

June 12, 2014
When the 2014 Farm Bill passed this winter, we did our best to sift through a complicated legislative landscape and understand what it meant for conservation.  Some programs disappeared and others merged, forming strange new acronyms. But now that USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) has started implementing these new programs, clear opportunities are emerging.
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