Ken Staver News Today

For most of the time that the Chesapeake Bay has existed, beavers by the millions inhabited every nook and cranny of the six-state watershed.

Eastern Shore farmer-scientist was a cover crops pioneer Tom Horton “Think globally, act locally.” It’s hard to improve on that environmental dictum of uncertain origin. Have broad vision and context, but start solving problems where you live. Don’t wait on the world. Russ Brinsfield personified this, and his passing this winter at 76 took one of the Chesapeake Bay’s best. This Eastern Shore farm boy spent his life in rural Dorchester County on Maryland’s Eastern Shore; his remarkab...