(This podcast originally aired January 31, 2017) CBF President Will Baker and Baltimore Tree Trust Executive Director Dan Millender discuss the environmental, economic, and cultural benefits of trees.Photo by Loren Barnett

Worth Repeating: This Bay Is Going to Set Me Free

Aug 28th, 2018 17m 10s

(This episode originally aired on June 21, 2016)CBF President Will Baker chats with Ray Langston, longtime resident and former mayor of Highland Beach, Maryland, a Bay-front community with a proud history and a bright future. To tour the mu

Do You Speak Dolphin?

Aug 14th, 2018 20m 54s

CBF President Will Baker talks with CBF’s resident dolphin geek Maryland Scientist Doug Myers about the increase of dolphins in the Chesapeake Bay.EPISODE SUMMARY01:08 Why are we seeing more dolphins in Chesapeake Bay?04:46 What's the co

Worth Repeating: Eating Local at Gertrude's Restaurant

Jul 31st, 2018 23m 29s

(This episode originally aired November 8, 2016)CBF President Will Baker and John Shields—cookbook author, TV chef, and owner of Baltimore's Gertrude's Restaurant—discuss the virtues of eating local in the Chesapeake Bay region. Find out mo

Feeling At Home

Jul 18th, 2018 31m 39s

CBF President Will Baker welcomes EPA's former Obama-appointed Acting Deputy Administrator Lisa Feldt as CBF's new Vice President for Environmental Protection and Restoration.Photo credit CBF Staff

Signs of Encouragement

Jul 3rd, 2018 21m 51s

CBF President Will Baker and Maryland Fisheries Scientist Allison Colden discuss recent news about the state of blue crabs and oyster restoration in the Chesapeake Bay.EPISODE NOTES:00:47 Annual stock assesment report for blue crabs and si

Learning from Each Other

Jun 19th, 2018 15m 18s

CBF President Will Baker talks with Chanté Coleman, Choose Clean Water Coalition Director, about the challenges of running a coalition organization and how members benefit.EPISODE NOTES:03:55 How the Coalition is helping Chesapeake watersh

Are We On Track?

Jun 5th, 2018 22m 25s

At the halfway mark in the Chesapeake Clean Water Blueprint, CBF President Will Baker and Dr. Beth McGee, CBF's Director of Science and Agriculture Policy, assess progress in pollution reduction across the region.EPISODE NOTES01:28 Overvie

Worth Repeating: Grasses = Crabs

May 23rd, 2018 19m 22s

(This episode originally aired June 6, 2017) CBF President Will Baker sits down with longtime CBF staffer Bart Jaeger to talk about the relationship between underwater grasses and the Bay’s blue crab population.Watch the Back to Baysics: Unde

Parachutes for the Planet

May 8th, 2018 26m 44s

CBF President Will Baker talks with CBF Student Bay Advisory Council Member Kallan Benson about the urgency of climate change and her creative efforts to make a difference.Find out more at the Mother Earth Project.Learn more about the Zero

Clean Water Grows on Trees

Apr 24th, 2018 16m 39s

CBF President Will Baker and CBF Pennsylvania Outreach Manager Lane Whigham announce the launch of the Keystone 10 Million Trees Partnership, a group effort to improve water quality in Pennsylvania and the Bay.EPISODE NOTES:02:00 What 10

Making Sausage

Apr 11th, 2018 21m 36s

CBF President Will Baker and CBF Maryland Executive Director Alison Prost talk about the legislative process and the outcome of this year’s Maryland General Assembly Session.Episode Notes:01:28 What happened to Maryland's innovation and lea

No Drill, No Spill

Mar 27th, 2018 19m 4s

CBF President Will Baker and CBF Litigation Fellow Brittany Wright discuss the dangers of offshore drilling and the current administration's plan to put the Chesapeake Bay at risk.Program Notes02:00 The federal government's proposal for off

Breaking Good

Mar 13th, 2018 25m 34s

CBF President Will Baker talks to college seniors Kara Adams and Makenzie Koski about their Alternative Spring Break experiences volunteering to help Save the Bay.Find out more about CBF's oyster restoration program and how you can get involv

10 Billion Oysters for a Clean Chesapeake Bay

Feb 27th, 2018 14m 44s

CBF President Will Baker, National Aquarium President John Racanelli, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science President Emeritus Dr. Don Boesch, and Hoopers Island Oyster Company Founder Johnny Shockley announce a very exciting

Breaking News: Menhaden Maneuvers

Feb 13th, 2018 15m 42s

In an update on "Keep the Cap" (Episode 74), CBF President Will Baker and Maryland Fisheries Scientist Allison Colden discuss Omega Protein's industrial-scale menhaden fishing operation in Virginia and what impact the company's opposition to th

Keep the Cap

Jan 30th, 2018 19m 18s

CBF President Will Baker and Maryland Fisheries Scientist Allison Colden discuss Virginia's appeal of the cap on the industrial fishing of the Bay's most important fish and what you can do to help protect it.Program Notes01:33 - A review of

Taking Bets on Innovation

Jan 16th, 2018 29m 12s

CBF President Will Baker and Quantified Ventures CEO Eric Letsinger discuss a promising new way for municipalities to finance pollution-reducing green infrastructure.Find out more about Environmental Impact Bonds.Photo credit Elliott O'Dono

Penn's Woods

Jan 4th, 2018 24m 2s

CBF President Will Baker talks with Bill Chain, CBF’s Senior Agriculture Program Manager in Pennsylvania, about the role of trees in cleaner water in Pennsylvania streams and the Bay.Program Notes:01:50 How a 20-year farmer and educator en

No Such Thing as a Free Lunch

Dec 20th, 2017 12m 11s

CBF President Will Baker talks with CBF Attorney Alayna Chuney about some new developments in the effort to reduce the harmful pollution coming from Baltimore City's Wheelabrator trash incinerator.Program Notes1:09 About the Wheelabrator t

A Shot in the Arm

Dec 5th, 2017 18m 21s

CBF President Will Baker talks with Senior Water Quality Scientist Dr. Beth McGee about opportunities to help farmers reduce water pollution and improve their bottom lines.Program Notes:01:05 Why putting agricultural best management pract

A Mixed Bag for Menhaden

Nov 21st, 2017 21m 14s

CBF President Will Baker talks with CBF's Senior Regional Ecosystem Scientist Chris Moore about recent developments in the management of the Bay's most important fish.Find out more about the current state of the menhaden fishery.Watch the v

A Badge of Courage

Nov 7th, 2017 35m 33s

CBF President Will Baker sits down with DC Water General Manager and innovative environmentalist George Hawkins to discuss the ins and outs of distributing drinking water to and collecting wastewater from millions of capital-area residents and

My Pet Oysters

Oct 24th, 2017 10m 39s

CBF President Will Baker interviews CBF's youngest official oyster gardener, Graham Mitchell, about the oysters he is raising and the good they will do for the Chesapeake Bay.Learn more about oyster gardening with CBF in Maryland and Virginia

Up In the Air

Oct 11th, 2017 17m 28s

CBF President Will Baker talks with CBF attorneys Ariel Solaski and Alayna Chuney about recent litigation aimed at reducing the air pollution from neighboring states that negatively affects the health of our citizens and our waterways.Program