Winter 2006 |
Working with One Less Car, DLITE will co-sponsor the first ever Cycle Across Maryland bike tour on the shore July 13-16.
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Winter is the time to sign up for the Delmarva Birding Weekend April 28-30. Last year most trips filled by mid-March so visit the Delmarva Birding Weekend home page to find out more. or call now at 800-852-0335 to reserve a spot.
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Grants from the France-Merrick Foundation and the Maryland Coastal Bays Program will help add sites to DLITE’s African American Heritage Trail.
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 DLITE’s EA Vaughn Kayak Trail is available through DLITE or at most county tourism offices.
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On Nov. 9 DLITE collaborated with the Delaware Center for the Inland Bays to hold a one-day workshop for ecotourism providers on the Delmarva Peninsula. The Center obtained a $1,500 assistance award from the U.S. EPA this spring to support the activity.
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 Visitors to the Salisbury Zoo's new Richard and Patricia Hazel Delmarva Trail will experience naturalistic exhibits highlighting local wildlife which were native to the Delmarva Peninsula— including red wolves.
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The Virginia Eastern Shore Land Trust secured another 1,860 acres in permanent conservation easements in 2005 bringing the total acres preserved by the three-year-old organization to 4,487.
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This fall, local Author Tom Patton published “Listen to the Voices, Follow the Trails,” an account of the unique natural history and culture found along Maryland’s seacoast.
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The Chesapeake Bay Environmental Center in Grasonville just east of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge boasts forests, meadows and marshes perfect for a day outdoors.
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The Bethany-Fenwick Area Chamber of Commerce will be holding its annual Ocean-To-Bay Bike Tour Saturday, April 22 at the Chamber office at Fenwick Island State Park on Route 1. Riders can choose from courses of 20, 35, or 50 miles through The Quiet Resorts of Sussex County, Delaware. The tour offers participants a leisurely ride on flat terrain, through coastal and inland bay areas.
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Following a public training session on March 31, the sixth annual Great Worcester Herp Search will take place May 13 at 9 a.m. A brief pre-hunt training session will feature live turtles, snakes, frogs, and salamanders and explain ways to identify them in the wild. It is free to the public and will be held to prep volunteers for searching four Worcester County sites.
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DLITE represents a union of Maryland, Virginia, and Delaware businesses, conservation organizations, and local, state, and federal partners which have formed an alliance to encourage nature-based tourism and conservation on the shore.
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 Thanks to the Seraph Foundation for their $25,000 grant to help DLITE fund operations, the Cape to Cape Birding Trail, and the African American Heritage Trail.
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by Dave Wilson
Good weather helped bolster duck and geese numbers for the 2005 Ocean City Christmas Bird Count while numbers of forest and farmland species struggled.
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The Delmarva Low Impact Tourism Board and advisors meet at the Atlantic Hotel in Berlin, Maryland.
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