Gerald Winegrad

The fate of the Chesapeake Bay hinges on successfully attacking global warming as scientists predict all of the bay’s tidal wetlands could erode to open water by the end of the 21st century.

Nearly all Maryland elected officials pronounce the urgency of acting on climate change and cutting global warming emissions. There are outliers or rather out-and-out-liars still denying global war…

As social creatures, especially in winter, we need to socialize with other people, whether in outdoor activities or simply going out to lunch or engaging in other activities, charitable and otherwi…

Each day I am thankful for my good fortune to live on the water in the town in which I grew up. I am blessed to be so enamored with all creatures great and small knowing each wild critter is a mira…

We enter 2024 during a time of severe upheaval and polarization in our world. No more important goals exist than to strengthen our democracy and safeguard our planet’s natural heritage. All of us a…

The colonization of our region began with the first permanent settlement in Jamestown in 1607. The English colonists were financed by the Virginia Co., a venture capital group of land speculators seeking quick returns. In 1632, King Charles I granted Lord Baltimore the Maryland colony. The Maryland charter notes the land was “partly occupied by Savages.” The seizure of the land and its exploitation for profit by the colonists was to be accomplished by land ownership as dictated by the king and a…

In 2008, I again began teaching a graduate course on Chesapeake Bay restoration. This was after 16 years in the state legislature and 13 years advocating for bird conservation with American Bird Co…

In 2008, I again began teaching a graduate course on Chesapeake Bay restoration. This was after 16 years in the state legislature and 13 years advocating for bird conservation with American Bird Conservancy. I consulted with bay insiders who knew the current scientific and policy intricacies of Chesapeake restoration. Gone was the bright, shiny and optimistic glow we all shared at the beginning of the formal bay program in 1983. Hope had been crushed by the political intransigence leading to a f…

Once again, the multi-billion-dollar chicken industry has won a major battle to block its grossly polluting practices that impede public health and the Chesapeake Bay’s restoration. Disgustingly, the Maryland Department of Environment (MDE) pulled out all stops in convincing the Maryland Supreme Court to strike down a March 2021 Montgomery County Circuit Court decision that would have forced MDE to properly regulate dangerous ammonia gas emissions from poultry farms. The Aug. 9 court decision me…

In an upside down world where science and the truth don’t seem to matter, we have the strange case of the Anne Arundel County Animal Control agency going rogue. The agency is shifting its primary function from protecting public health and safety to protecting overabundant dogs and cats from humane euthanasia at all costs. The agency has been aided and abetted by a cowardly past County Council and executive who allowed animal rights humaniacs to dictate policies. Dana Munro’s investigative report…