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if you live in maryland, you've heard about blue crabs, a chesapeake bay icon. but scuttling along the salty shorelines of maryland's ocean beaches and coastal bays are as many as 35 other kinds of crabs you're unlikely to meet in a crabcake. jim casey was fisheries biologist for 37 years with the department of natural resources fisheries service. he emerged from retirement just to help find some of these crustaceans beyond blue - from tidal marsh to ocean surf. >> jim casey: with the type of habitat that we have, there are many, many more crabs than just blue crabs. many of them whi...

>> woman: we do want to help kids create bonds with the natural world, not just because we want them to grow up and become stewards of the environment, but also for their own benefits... peyton taylor, md conserv. corps & interpretation: ...because there's a growing body of research that tells us that when kids have an opportunity to interact, especially in unstructured play in an outdoor environment, there's a whole host of benefits that come to them, in terms of their cognitive skills, academic abilities, their physical health and well-being, their mental health and well-being, the...

who would actually make a map of a community, and then they would extrapolate what it looked like from an angle, so that you would be able to see the streets, and of course, it shows the pride of spokane, the great falls with the water pouring forth. and it's all very dramatic. this is done through lithography, and they would have used more than one plate to get the various shades and colors. this was done in 1905. the inset showing fort wright is there, because fort wright is not in that grid pattern. it's farther down the river, but it was important to the settlement. what did you ...