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The Longest Passage [5:51]
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When a Maryland Bay pilot brings a big ship up the Chesapeake Bay to Baltimore, he (or she) is making the longest single-pilot passage in America. When Captain Randy Bourgeois boards his ship, he is 8 miles from shore, 150 miles from Baltimore.

His job: guide a deep draft ship through a long, shallow estuary. And do it without incident, accident or environmental catastrophe.

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Northern Passage [1:47]
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From Baltimore to the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal is a short, tricky run: 40 miles with narrow channels and oncoming ship traffic.

Chesapeake Quarterly : Volume 24 Number 1 : Restoration Takes Root: Living Shorelines for Changing Coasts

Restoration Takes Root: Living Shorelines for Changing Coasts

June 2025 • Volume 24 Number 1

Roots at the Water’s Edge

By Ashley Goetz

As erosion threatens treasured places around the Chesapeake Bay, communities are turning to nature-based solutions. Explore how living shorelines are helping to protect coasts and heritage on opposite shores of the Bay.

Seeding Shorelines

By Madeleine Jepsen

Living shoreline plants have a tough job: they must hold down the sandy shoreline with their roots and ease waves with their stems, all while surviving salty water. 

 

Designing with Nature

By Madeleine Jepsen

Researchers are on a mission to determine which key components make a living shoreline successful at preventing erosion—but first they must gather crucial data. 

 

Living Rocks for Living Shorelines

By Madeleine Jepsen

Oyster biology is both an obstacle and an opportunity when it comes to living shorelines. Learn how and why oysters are sometimes included in living shoreline projects. 

 

A Marsh Grows in Brooklyn

By Ashley Goetz

A living shoreline is under construction in Baltimore City—part of a sweeping project that aims to restore more than 50 acres of habitat along 11 miles of shoreline. 

 
Cover photo by Logan Bilbrough
Cover photo by Logan Bilbrough

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