

Save The Date: Heathsville Earth Day Festival, Saturday, Apr. 15
Learn about nature, stewardship, green energy, climate change, and the future of transportation...


NAPS Launches Cockrells Creek Cleanup Flotilla (with slideshow)
With clear skies and calm seas, 48 volunteers helped to remove trash from Cockrells Creek during the 2022 NAPS Creek Cleanup, Sunday,...


NAPS Highway Cleanup Clears 18+ Bags of Trash
A crew of 15 volunteers cleared the roadsides and gullies during the Fall 2022 NAPS Highway Cleanup, Sunday, Oct. 16th. Eighteen large...


NAPS Highway Cleanup Takes Out The Trash
On a hot, sunny day, volunteers removed roadside trash during NAPS Spring Highway Cleanup Sunday, May 22, 2022, on Route 200 from...


A Beautiful Day to Celebrate Nature at the NAPS Earth Day Festival
The 7th annual Earth Day Festival in Heathsville welcomed hundreds of visitors to enjoy dozens of exhibits, demonstrations, displays and...
Changing Baselines
(Published June 2003) “You shoulda seen it when... you could see grass on the bottom in at least 10 to 12 feet of water. oyster reefs...
Flush Tax
(Published February 2005) Stewardship means not only taking practical individual actions to improve our community and especially water...


Septic Systems
(Published May 2004) Responsible disposal of human wastes is a necessary, albeit unpleasant, part of everyone’s life. Here’s how it...


Oyster Gardening
(Published September 2001) Shellfish have been cultured by humankind for millennia. Recently, Virginians and Marylanders have discovered...
Out Of Sight
(Published August 2004) “Out of sight and out of mind” is a very appropriate truism with regard to Chesapeake Bay. One of the Bay’s...