Ocean View– On Wednesday, October 7, twenty-one employees with DNREC’s Division of Watershed Stewardship, Drainage Section, volunteered their time at the James Farm Ecological Preserve, clearing brush and selected trees from two acres that will now be managed as upland meadow. The meadow is part of the James Farm Ecological Preserve Master Plan that aims […]
Indian River Inlet: The Delaware Center for the Inland Bays’ (CIB) oyster shell recycling program, known as, Don’t Chuck Your Shucks, reached its goal to collect 1,000 bushels of shell in its first season. The program, designed to collect and reuse the oyster shells that would otherwise be sent to landfills, is a partnership with […]
Rehoboth Beach, DE: The Delaware Center for the Inland Bays invites residents of the Dirickson Creek area to complete a short online survey regarding their recreational use of the creek, access to the creek, and observations and concerns about water quality. The feedback from this survey will be used to assist the Delaware Center for […]
Rehoboth Beach, DE: On Tuesday, August 18, 2015, members of the Inland Bays Fish Survey and staff gathered at the Delaware Center for the Inland Bays (CIB) to remember and honor our friend and colleague Ron Kernehan, who died in July at his home in Lewes Beach. Ron Kernehan joined the CIB as a […]
– A Benefit for the Inland Bays- Rehoboth Beach, DE: Join us on the deck for the 8th Annual Decked Out! party to benefit the Center for the Inland Bays on Thursday, August 6th from 6:00–9:00 p.m. at our bayside location on Indian River Inlet. Enjoy the sounds of steel drum music as the sun […]
Indian River Inlet, DE: For more than a decade, the Delaware Center for the Inland Bays and its partners have held the annual Inland Bays Clean Up which has removed tons of trash from the beaches, bays and marshes of the three Inland Bays. From litter like plastic bottles and bags, to docking lumber and […]
Center for Inland Bays Working to Remove Hazardous Debris from the Bays Indian River Inlet, DE: When most people hear about the Delaware Center for the Inland Bays, they think about cleaning up pollution in the Bays. But one CIB committee is focused on the broader mission; the ‘wise use and enhancement’ of the Inland […]
Indian River Inlet, DE: For many, the annual Native Plant Sale at James Farm Ecological Preserve has become a spring tradition. Now in its eleventh year, the Gardening for the Bays Native Plant Sale on Saturday, May 2nd at the James Farm Ecological Preserve on Cedar Neck Road in Ocean View is the ‘one-stop-shop’ for […]
Rehoboth Beach, DE: Dr. Dennis Bartow of Ocean View was awarded the President’s Volunteer Service Award with thanks and appreciation from President Barack Obama for his devotion to service in his work for the Delaware Center for the Inland Bays. A retired educator and administrator from Montgomery County Pennsylvania, he came to the CIB […]
Rehoboth Beach, DE: “Although Delaware’s Inland Bays have long been recognized as waters of exceptional recreational and ecological significance, water quality is still a concern because the Bays continue to receive nutrient pollution from a variety of sources like wastewater and fertilizers, said Chris Bason, Executive Director of the Delaware Center for the Inland Bays […]
