The Natural Resource
Your guide to recreation & conservation in Maryland. Published quarterly by the Department of Natural Resources

C. Ronald Franks, Secretary
W. P. Jensen, Deputy Secretary

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© 2003 Maryland Department of Natural Resources

• Life Outdoors
  Message from Secretary Franks
• Fishing the Upper Chesapeake
  Year-Round Opportunities in Your Own Backyard
• Breathing Life into Old Parks
  Maryland's Community Parks & Playgrounds Program
• Sika
  Maryland's Exotic Little Elk
• Partnerships and a Path to Paddle By
  Mapping the State's Water Trails
• A Natural Education
  Getting Excited About Envirothon!
• Summer Calendar
  Where to go and what to do
• DNR Snapshot
  135th Anniversary of the MD Natural Resources Police
• Park Profile
  Treasures of the West
• DNR at Work
  Cel Petro, Director, Information Resource Center

  Past Issues...

  • Spring 2003
  • Winter 2003

On the Cover... Fishing opportunities abound in and along the 4,360 miles of tidal shoreline within Maryland’s portion of the Chesapeake Bay watershed– and that’s only half the story! Our freshwater streams and the neighboring Atlantic Ocean offer countless more. Whether you chose to go out on the Bay with friends aboard a charter boat or to indulge in a more solitary shoreline approach like the gentleman on our cover, summer is the ideal time to try your hand at catching some of the many species of fish that spend the season in our waters.

Photo by Tom Darden