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Lord. Oh. See. Whoa whoa whoa. Whoa. Each year before the first blade of grass turns green new dreams

began in Maryland's thoroughbred horse country. The rolling countryside that surrounds Baltimore is home to more than 200 thoroughbred horse farms. Here in the pre-dawn show New Hope stirrers as the first folds of the year drop on to the freshly laid the hay. And with each new full a dream is reborn the dream of a million dollar Stakes winner. Meanwhile hundreds of stallions step up to their daily challenge crossing the blood lines one more calculated time passing on the speed the stamina and the will to win. To be a thoroughbred a horse's bloodline must be traceable to one of three stallions. The Darley Arabian The dolphin barber or the Byerly Turk. All of which began the line in 17th century England. Today's thoroughbred is the product of three centuries of inbreeding. We one purpose in mind to

breed a winner. The fastest horse around. By virtue of its pedigree its this position and having proved itself a winner at the track the standing stud stallion is the royal sire of the thoroughbred line commanding a lofty feed for a few minutes worth. With considerable amounts of money at stake conception is not left to chance. Though I believe in their setting these farms are serious commercial operations. J William Boniface owns Bonita farm in darling. For a family run operation the elder son runs the breeding division part youngest dozens die in that image in your lungs. This is one of Benita farms mare. She happens to be the grandam one of the Kentucky Derby contenders for this year we're going to be breeding her to repeated testimony. She's been checked in the veterinarian thinks

today would be the best time for us to breeder. This stallion cover so many mares you know cover up 50 60 Mares a year that would take a lot of caution because he's out of commission and things are bad and we're going to put restraints on. So that she can't kick the stallion when you Meltzer. Right now the economic situation is such a breeding business it's really been known for its worse. If you test. For 25000 and you now see it for thirty five hundred years one of the best. OK what we do is we'll come back and Walter sound her at about 14 15 days from this made avi lation. And. Then you'll be able to tell whether we have one in there or not.

He's flexible. You know that's a pregnant. And about two or three days you see a heartbeat for sale machines made our job a lot easier in Glasgow. Now takes all the guesswork out of it. Yet And there's a very full day of the trainer and that operation starts at 6 o'clock and we begin training by seven. Try to run four sets on the hour between seven and 11. There are a breed of horses that really is the greatest of all because they have so much courage in the commencement of hard to read has the desire to learn. A lot of people talk about the style that the world worse health get they get the horse but there is a big element to psychologically trained horse. Relax.

I had a filly years ago and was working there one morning and whistled to her and she broke like a fresh horse. So next time I ran her I said to the Jack look when you get ready to make your move be sure you got a hole when you whistle so fake office he won three races in a row. Raising thoroughbreds takes a lot of land and the competition for it is considerable. Atlanta Hall Farm was founded by a horseman fleeing the encroachment of developers 60 years ago. It's the site of a unique indoor racetrack. Tom Voss is the current owner and I've read many of these kind of barns in America let alone in Malibu. This barn was built in the around 1930 to draw on the depression story has it that every carpenter within a 50 mile radius worked on it at 60 cents an hour whatever the going rate was and I think they built it like in a couple of months it's all wood all glass caught in groove the six of them a mile around. What a time we have everybody with a racehorse within the 20 mile radius in here

training our horses when the grounds of the home farm is about 700 acres. It come from Long Island where they were big into fox hunting they have of course that that time of the New York City and all the suburbs start to spread to where the 590 was in Long Island and they came here for the fossil they had built a place here and a lot of other people came to luckly around here a lot of people with the bigger farms and putting their land in some kind of preservation I would call it for selling the development rights so they're protected for you know forever hopefully and allow some of this to go on raising bread. Some class horses and the black horses over there cannot steeplechases race from my mile and look at what new throughout the East Coast and we got a told in the summertime you know we basically go anywhere there's a race for the horse.

All thoroughbreds are destined for the track This is where the major money is. But there is another side of this racing line one that harkens back to the traditions of Dubai bracing Charly friendly train steeplechase horses at his farm and battling just 25 minutes from downtown Baltimore. My primary interest is in stupid chasing training and riding is concerned what we have here is a commercial operations a vast majority of the horses on the place are owned by other people and they're paying us. Up to $45 a day to take care of the horses. The third bred in the weathered breeding or training steeplechase horses that lends itself to land use way very much suburban living. We have had some problem with the land value is escalating at a rapid rate. That puts a lot of pressure on our industry to stay and this kind of area because of land values are 10000 dollars an acre. The train service great was done

just about $10000 a steeple chasing is a sport that's run a lot of Hunt meets which are out in the open country. Maryland is famous for its timber racism running each week in the neighborhood. These four races culminate with the Marilyn hunt considered the toughest timber race in America. The first meet of the season is held at Atlanta farm. Just one more on the. Race here and going on since probably nineteen forty five this is like a point to point a lot of people just get their horses ready give them an easy ride. What's going on right.

The Maryland Grand National is the second of the Triple Crown temperatures. It's been run each spring since 1890 and it's held on Charley Fenwick's home turf by the Grand National has been run here in the valley since the end of World War Two. It is a classic point the point goes over six different properties in the area that you know that I've been with I think quite likely. The thoroughbred horse culture in Maryland is facing some tough times. Can it survive the pressures of development. Rising land values lack of investors and the declining interest in there are bred racing off track betting may give the industry a needed boost but it's viability in the Maryland countryside remains to be seen.

One thing is sure the thoroughbred is here to stay. Three centuries of breeding will not disappear overnight. As long as there are fast horses they'll be races to run bets to place money to win. And each spring a new crop of foals will hit the ground. Running. Maryland's Eastern Shore. A place of timeless beauty where the congestion of the western shore gives way to a different sort of commotion. The honking of thousands of Canada geese leaning Fielden pond for their breakfast. The birds are oblivious to the fact they're being watched by Eastern Shore photographer Heather Davidson. They're sitting in her rolling blind. The geese pay her

no heed. A glint of the camera's lens is the only clue to her presence. Davidson's van is a familiar sight meandering through back roads of the Eastern Shore. Neighbors know not to knock when the curtains are gone. An artist is at war. Wildlife photography demands time and patience waiting for a perfect revealing moment. Today the whistling Swan is her choir. Her work exposes the private lives of the eastern shores most distinguished residents. The majesty of a Great Blue Heron. A stake.

The elegance of a great secret. But as she's explored the Eastern Shore in search of wild life Davidson has stumbled on some unforseen subjects. Its people landmarks and lower. There are so many things that are changing so fast. Whole areas of the coast of the Bay are being torn down to make way for condominiums and large marinas. Men that used to work on the water being forced to do other kinds of jobs now. And I thought it was important to document them particularly old timers that way of life is is disappearing. Today her work appears regularly on magazine covers and catalogues. But her photography career and amateur interest in wildlife began somewhat unexpectedly 30

years ago. I was a mother and we would take family trips and I would take pictures of the square on the side of the road in the pigeon on the fence and when we get home that you would complain that I had more pictures of the pigeons on the side of the road than I had of what they were doing. Interest became a passion carefully studying her side as she photographed them. Davidson learned to better anticipate those fleeting moments of beauty. As I got into it more and found out all the different kinds of ducks there are and the different ways they have different times of the year and the difference between the males and the females and the young. I got terribly interested in it. Davidson's friends and neighbors occasionally the subject of her work have grown comfortable with her easygoing style and sensitive portrayals. A recent gallery show in Chestertown lowered short residence to reflect on the beauty that they

call the best part. That's right. So I have to get out there with the mat for you. Yes yes. But it is the beacons of Marilyn's maritime past that have become the signature word for Davidson and collaborator skip Willetts. There sure is Waterman and those who bring the bay's harvest to our table have a special place in her heart. They're accustomed to her presence while they work. I think the watermen do enjoy it. I haven't found any hostility or. And last week I was in a building in Rock Hall where they were shucking oysters and I didn't know the people in there would object to my thinking last week through the early work. But they didn't object at all. And much to my surprise they broke into song and they started

singing him moves very slowly so they could shock. I mean I was as smooth as a light had the Mormon Tabernacle Choir here. Davidson says she still has much to do. With courting the heritage of the show. Each day brings another subject to learn. One more exposure tonight. Fire in the wood. An alarm sounds an oversight. Fire is the enemy. Fire is also the agent of rebirth. At soldier's delight.

A regular fire regime could save the largest remaining serpentine prairie in eastern North America. Three hundred fifty years ago nearly one hundred thousand acres of serpentine grassland swept through Maryland today a two thousand acre retreat near Owings Mills is the largest remaining outpost of serpentine prairie on the East Coast and even here the 17 is under siege. Fast growing Virginia pines march through the fields creating forest where tall grass is once flourished. You're back before 1900 there were few to no trees in this area. You're back a little ways further back before around 1750. The American Indians were in the area and they used to do fire hunting. They build a big fire maybe 1 2 3 miles in diameter. Leave one hand open and when the animals running away from the fire came screaming out they stood there and shot him. If we get this cat We need stuff we get on your horse and you're chasing me. If you get them to run toward you. So that's what they did.

This had several effects. Number one they kept all the trees and everything that started to grow burned off so the area was basically open meadow Prairie type grassland for the Indians gone. The trees were allowed to slowly start growing in every case no tree here occasional triggers there. After a while the trees started blending together and the whole area's becoming forested the problem with that is with the Serpentine area here in the open barren areas is where all the rare plants are at last count we had 34 rare endangered species of plants. If we do nothing in this area all these rare plants will be destroyed because of the pine trees taking over. At soldier's delight Virginia pine challenge the native Posto in a battle for valuable sunlight. Here two plants found only among the mineral beds of the Serpentine grassland fight for survival. Sand plain Gerardia. The endangered fringed. Gentian.

Certain team Ashton. And fame flowers could be saved by a program to reinstate the landscape to a time when Native Americans lived and hunted the area. The key to the program is fine. We mimic the Native American Flyers then we don't have to worry about impact through the rare and endangered species because for thousands of years these species evolved as a community to the primary environmental factor in fact it's fire that these species are directly dependent upon for survival. Volunteers and conservationists work together to remove pine trees in preparation for a controlled burn. After the initial clearing the plan is to torch the remaining pine stand in a massive fire.

Some people say well wait a second. But we're supposed to be planting trees. That's the governor's thing right now is to plant trees and that's good in some areas in this particular case. It's destroying what we're trying to preserve here. With this fire we were hoping that the ground fire would move up the tree that would climb the tree and that heat from the fire would fill the pot. But that didn't happen and it looks like with pine tree you were going to have to go in and physically remove them and then come in with fire to restore the grassland. The soldiers delight restoration project will continue using volunteer muscle to

remove the encroaching pines and heating lessons from fire hunting Native Americans. These serpentine grasslands remain a living link to our past. It's a question that's been around as long as the game itself. Whose horse is fastest. In thoroughbred racing known as the game to most of the track. The answer means money for the horse for the owner and trainer. Winning is everything. Baltimore's Pimlico Racetrack ole hilltop home to the Preakness Stakes and some say a microcosm of the horse racing industry here a diverse

cast assembled before dawn putting high strung thoroughbreds through their paces. The odds are against the practice doesn't always mean perfect thoroughbred racing is a game driven by luck. My fervent hope some skill. And most of all constant dedication. Yellow spruce has trained thoroughbred since 1947 a sage among chemical trainers. He's learned the secrets of thoroughbred racing scene the ups and downs watched horses and people come and go and he's witnessed big changes in the game. It's a game if you've got a lot of money and like you you know. But if you if you know when it gets to be sickening again. You have. In

this game you have to call it a game. It's a business for most people. When I first started I used to pay 50 cents a gallon or you went through a dollar. To buy a bag owed for three dollars and a quarter. Now you're paying a guy $7 to gallop a horse oats cause you're $15 a bag if you don't have to pay more. For winning horses. Nothing. Bruce says he's seen better days in the racing game. The costs of training of running a thoroughbred win or lose are just too high for most people today. While. My race horses. Your biome. And hope. Or expect. That they'll develop into something. What I'll say is. 60 percent of the time not just the work.

And. The. Expense. People get 40 50 dollars a day to train a horse. And a guy if you don't root for the I don't have a decent horse. He's a sure loser. A lot of. Just ducked out of the gate. No. Ordinary people. I don't have money to where you. Just can't. Stay in the game if you don't want to. I'd rather be lucky and let the other guy be smart. Others throughout the moko stables echoed Crucis sentiments. Yet most trainers jealously guard their thoroughbreds training schedules. Hint there is much more to winning races than mere chance and breeze three eighths of a mile walk gallop at random and Kate

second. 15 years ago now she tutors two year old thoroughbred in the ways of the game. She and other trainers look with the season to see a horse has it. The speed the stamina the points needed to break from the gate and when. It rarely happens which. Of course it's horrible everything make it and they're even greater to the racing to be a winner much less make it stake winner that it's not against it I think on the racetrack the trainers especially just trying to make a living and hoping for a big horse you know the one that gets you out of debt. The odds are probably really against it the whole object is to win races and I really like Courtney taking the young horses in and sort of tests and teaching of everything to come out of the gate that's foreign to them they don't know how to do that so I taught school for two years right out of college and it's just like. Kids graduate when

you finally get one over to the races and he wins the races and you know we learned our lessons right he came out of the gate he didn't do anything silly to embarrass out on the racetrack like stop in the middle of the race and you really get a feeling of accomplishment. At the track because you think about it. If the truck is in good shape from.

The two Phillies team last week. John and Judy Dean a tele took the dare and continued to win the game. After 20 years of training the atmosphere of the competition the sport itself you know. The challenge of winning a race getting a horse there it's kind of like a game. Yeah it's fun you know it's it's very exhilarating to watch a horse run for the first time that you might have bred or what is a young horse a completely talentless and you know very little or limited education when you get it and going through the schooling process and watching this horse mature and finally get to the races because of the tremendous odds against a horse never competing. So this is kind of like a you know part of the game it's like you know beating the odds. It's really a tremendous tremendous feat when you get one of these keepers of the game hold fast to memories of a win place

or show and the heady dreams of better days to come. He might sit back and reflect and saying my god why am I doing this. But one horse hits the wire one horse shows some potential and you forget. The pain is gone the heartbreak is gone and there's no way to describe it. Captain John Smith first spied it in 60 no way. A fifteen hundred acre tree studded paradise carving a sharp wage into the Chesapeake. Now almost 400 years later nothing remains of papa. Nothing but fragments of its natural past the Chesapeake is

reclaiming popular slowly. Deliberately inescapable. But this tiny shard of disappearing sand boasts a history rich in fact and fiction of legend and lower. Originally called Hope please Island where was once expansive. To the north like Kent Island. The East Cobbers neck. And then Tilman isolated yet teeming with wildlife. Popper was a microcosm of the Eastern Shore ecosystem biologist Jan Reese say the wallet in our time is essentially the same as on the mainland. Here particular a lot of nesting birds since it was sort of a safe. Haven free of predators. But since 1877 the Chesapeake relentless pursuit of poplar has won out by 1937 the western shoreline was gone badly eroded the main island broken into in one thousand seven day pop there was no more

than six jagged sand bars peeking through the bays green waters. Today most of them are gone swallowed up yet poplars colorful history survives. Biologist Reese and colleague Don Marron occasionally visit the island to document its disintegration. Jan Reese has followed poplars demise since childhood. Say ladies there are only six. Wrong. Possible. Think of. The woodland. Blowing on trees would. Be on. Most of these odd how. I don't. Understand how hard. I would say to me the last hop around. Rhapsody played. The death of a close. Friend. I spent many many years here. Studying like. Really. Needs are not. Reason. Enough. I mean. Pop around disappears. All the. Organisms and life this year also. In July 1990 we dock the

boat over on that little island and walked across to where we are now. We discover the former colony and treat some of these trees that are land and water. Number 70 feet high. In less than two years. This much of the town is just. Here. Now the Chesapeake Bay are rapidly disappearing from erosion. This one behind us Bob Brown is going to be probably the latest one to go and it only looks like it's got a couple more years like left. Sharp John disappeared in the late 50s. Barren Island Jamestown are also disappearing. Popular island has always lured the uncommon to its shores. The interesting thing about pop around is that it's had some strange events in history it used to be owned at one time by the grandson of Charles Carroll of Carrollton a signer of their independence. And he had a money making scheme to sell black cat fur to the Chinese. They put an ad in a local Eastern paper and purchased several hundred maybe even a thousand

black cats and turn them loose on the island to breed in hopes that he could then go in and trap the progeny and sell the fur. Unfortunately Mother Nature didn't cooperate that winter. The bay froze and the cats decided to run to the mainland and he lost all of his breeding stock. Past popular residents have lived through other historic moments as well. Columnists were massacred by Nanticoke Indians here as they worked a vast corn and tobacco plantation and many witnessed a British takeover of the island during the War of 1812. Later its proximity to Washington still tied popular to the Capitol and its powerful residents in one thousand thirty one prominent Democrats bought to what was then three islands in the group and formed the Jefferson island's club. It was really a haven for powerful Washington Democrats. Mary Jane had a way I grew up on Poplar Island mingling with presidents and senators witnessing history as FDR and his staff forged the New Deal and guided the allies to World War Two. Of

course there were some lighter moments too. Harry Truman was president when he came to power. And you know I thought he was a fantastic person. And when the presidential party runs over the 600 people that hang that weekend there were a few that stayed over. So my mother was serving dinner that night on the porch for some reason or other it had to be served on the porch rather than the dining room. And I had two bowls of ring one in each hand and I leaned over to put one bowl on the table. And when I did the other bull on the other hand tilted and they went down the president's back. I wanted the floor to swallow me up because I was sure all those Secret Service men were just men. If so then I just wanted to vanish in the floorboards. But he looked around and apparently I must've had tears in my eyes because he loved going through

hell. Honey don't worry about that you'll have the story to tell your grandchildren. I mean just to say I felt a lot better. The lodge burned to the ground in 1946. The Bailey family bought the islands after the fire. Newspaper man Hugh Bailey remembers the island was always shrinking washing slowly away. But Hurricane Hazel devastated popular in 1954 as it roared up the bay. It reached poplar island in about four places making five separate islands. It changed the whole character of the place. It's one thing to have a shed or a barn or even your house blown away but when the whole terra firma changes that much the Rio a real shocker. The islands were again sold in 151. This time to the Campbell Soup Company. After changing hands several more times including brief ownership by the Smithsonian

they lay abandoned. A group of prominent lawyers bought the islands in the 1980s and hoped the federal government will renew with dread spoilage a piece of property that is losing its value and size quickly. By 1990 poplar island was reduced from a thriving colonial remnant to a mere bird colony. It's one of coated trees standing as sentinels now even they are gone. Dredging could re-establish public. Yet it will never again be its former self. But even after it's gone fully covered by the bay. It's 400 years of Chesapeake lore beneath the choppy water. Popular island will live through the memory of those who brought this Sandy sliver to life. Alexander run. It splashes through Garrett County Savage River State

Forest. Whispering a riddle. Its water is pure. So clean. Residents downstream drink it daily. So why have the fish of Alexander run vanished. The book dropped skulk limbs. Even the black nose days are gone. Many aquatic insects too are absent from a stream that should be teeming with life. Alexander Ron is dying. Ron Claudia a Department of Natural Resources scientist believes he's found the answer and he wants to lure the fish back again. And what's happening to the stream they're receiving after the deposition in which you're hearing informally that acid rain or acid. So we're out of the fog. Meandering down the rocky Appalachian slopes over sandstone silt stone and shale the bedrock and the in mildly acid soils offer little or no buffering for the Alexander. It has always been slightly acidic.

But manmade acids falling from the sky nudge the stream over the edge and toward death. A quarter century ago acids disguised as rain snow dust and fog. Early autumn. Today Claude and his team gather south of Brownsville today or something new. Alexander run will be the first head water stream in the U.S. ever dosed with limestone hopes it buffers the strain. The antidote He's been looking for as a Gorski helicopter will towed two tons of limestone to the watershed. Spread it and return for another load. We're trying to do is raise the PH in the stream stream right now it's very acidic so we're trying to apply limestone to the watershed primarily working on two edges of the screen about 200 feet back from the stream. Bring down limestone at a rate of about five tons per acre. So we hope it will bring the pH of the stream up to near neutral where we can then expect the fish and other organisms could survive.

The pellets rained down for much of the afternoon. And colleague Renee Pryce are anxious to see the results. But there's not much either of them do but way to go you know for lying to me like you said something about it you know. But yeah we got you know we can look at the bucket for how much limestone. Scientists learned in the mid 1980s that many Maryland streams were a city. In western Maryland alone there are twelve hundred miles of head waters that feed larger streams creeks and rivers. More than half are acidic or sensitive to acid in books. Throughout the state the total is now more than one third. If left unchecked the prognosis is dead dying or threatened aquatic habitats and displacement of sensitive native species on a large scale.

The stakes are high and Claudel hopes liming will heal acidic strains at least until the new Clean Air Act stops the problem where it starts. That point is almost always here. Here. And here are. Stacks and pipes spewing clouds of nitrates and oxides. Ashes and smoke monoxide dioxides sulfates and acids. Ozone nitrogen and sulfur. A who's who of airborne poisons. A legacy of progress and industry power plants cars trucks buses boats even home furnishes all contribute to a city pollution. Its impact reaches beyond the glass steel and concrete of urban life. Researchers from the University of Maryland's Appalachian environmental lab assist the study by

sampling Alexander Iran and other regional strains. Ray Morgan and his team sample Upper Big Rock looking for signs the stream's ph has changed. And. Later Morgan and Claude drive to Monroe Iran where they sampled the fast running stream for fish with electroshock. Will be. A force for soccer. There in this. World. Only. From all the snow melt. The last week or so. For those of. You to know what to do. Order to. Answer. Good phone.

Somewhere. For. The summer. 7 What did. Your. Father returns to Alexander run during a midwinter Sonoma looking for signs of the limestone pellets dropped months before. The fish of not yet return. And the Alexanders ph is still low. But what he finds looks positive. Also the fillets of fairly have dissolved I don't see many left there were very sick or put down but the top of this leaf. Is still some of the remnants of one that has the fluids of jet. But it's good that I don't see too many that have dissolved so that means they're. There now into the soil. This is an experiment so we're not really sure that it will but it will treat the watershed. We think it will based on calculations that we've made. But then only the weekly sampling will tell us what's going on. Alexander Ron it turns out. Offers not so much are riddled to be solved. As a

lesson to be line. The mountains of western many outdoor events including. Those in between.

It's a matter of doing it with him said he would hear from him and then you know you have your pick of an 18 kilometer loop or a 32 kilometer marathon. Either way it's a ride off the beaten track. OK chords here start going if you get down here this is a climb here this is what a break is that's of our climb and then you get this is a river crossing it's probably too deep right. My name is Darcy dank room and right in the end I'm actually a professional mountain bike racer. I have a family I'm married and have a 5 year old son. I actually just started to ride to get in shape after I had my son Matthew. I just kept riding

recreationally just because I enjoyed it. And then after that that's when I started after a couple years as I try to race and and was quite surprised with the results and and have since started a new career I suppose. OK. If so. We want to see. What. You. Really. Think. The. Brightness going to do. Bikers have a a love for the outdoors and. A respect for nature.

There are people who are maybe health health conscious and just like to be active in doing things. It's pretty interesting because they really are all ages out here anywhere from 14 year olds to 50 year olds out here racing you know so it's it's fun it's a nice group of people. Why. I. Have always been athletic I think but it's I've never really taken anything to to this limits you know I've played tennis and I've skied for a long time and done things like that that never completed much

competitively. You can see.

Yours. That's what. Time. There's definitely a place for mountain bikes. OK. I think it's a good thing to be promoting people because it is you are outside getting exercise some. Think it just makes a healthier America. Though seldom seen they are out there in unknown

numbers they quietly live among the wetlands of the Chesapeake. Nothing living on Earth today is quite like. Their design unique among living creatures has been their hallmarks since they first evolved over 250 million years ago. Then. Living quietly among the marshes they watched as the dinosaurs first emerged. Prospered. And vanished. They are still here today. And might very well be here. Long after we have vanished. Turtles. And in particular the Chesapeake own Diamondback terrapins. An aquatic creature of the bay's wetlands. The diamond back has earned a rich place in Maryland history. First worshiped by Native Indians as a symbol of fertility. In later years its reputation grew as a delicacy.

Its succulent meat a favorite item up on tide water tables. Though a closer look reveals a truly unique creature. Like all turtles The Diamondback is a reptile. Thus cold blooded It must maintain body temperature through extra inal means such as basking up on the grass in the morning sun. There show Terrapins armor is made of living bone and actually extension of their skeleton. The show continues to grow along with the rest of their body. Their armor is constructed of two halves the upper called the current pace and the lower half called the plus drop both of which are solidly fused on each side by a firm bony bridge made up of living bone. The two halves are covered with scales called scoots. And it is these scoots that give the Terrapins their unique design and beautiful color.

Another distinguishing feature of the Diamondback is that they have now lost the ability to pull their heads and limbs totally inside their shelves as land turtles can through evolution. What was lost in protection was gained in streamlining a much more important factor for an aquatic creature. Newly hunted to extinction during the turn of the century they now have become the prey of biologists such as Willem Rosenberg who studies the Terrapins unique life cycle for the University of Maryland's Center for Marine biotechnology. The Diamondback Terrapins an extreme turtle you curs in the eastern and Gulf Coast of the United States. The turban is an aquatic turtle and spends most of its life time in the water. The Terrapins comes ashore in during June and July and the females emerge from the water and deposit a nest of between seven and twenty two eggs on open sandy beaches

throughout the bay. After approximately 60 to 90 days the hatchlings will either emerge from the nest and inhabit the shallow waters or the hatchlings will remain in the nest and over winter and the birds the following spring. One of the interesting things about the nesting biology of terrapins is that they should nest site ability that is that a female returns year after year. That's from the same piece of meat. This has important implications for the Conservation Biology of the species. It is important that we protect the nesting habitats to maintain turbaned populations throughout the bay. As with all of the base creatures the Diamondbacks pitcher is reflected in the future. Just if we handle the bay with fair it endure and will continue to provide the diamonds in the rough. They were classics from the start dodging skip Jacks

taunting the overnight steamers their antics were once a common sight upon the crystal waters of the Chesapeake their breeding graceful lines and raw power made them synonymous with that there are brides of the day. However it was not always to be by the 1960s they had all but vanished victims of a new voting age. One of fiberglass and mass production. There once a gleaming mahogany holes now lay awash in the dark and black wires faint memories like the music of there you are though not all forgotten her bizarre new remembering and through his dedication and that of others like him. The Chesapeake began to see a return of the classics.

What got to be memories from childhood growing up when I got the river there were three or four were blocking the vote. Chris Greer Packard Garwood. Just something clicked inside my head and all my life I wanted to be one with my knowledge. Three to six in the morning literature your brain a little and you have more of an your mother in law. By today's standards. Your original course would seem pretty cheap. This boat has you ready to run in a brand new 1930 one with twenty five hundred ninety five dollars.

The original owner of 31 of the canning factory near Bangor Maine was used in a summer in the back of the work and he did this for a period of 15 years. It is much more than just love a boat it is a love affair with the

waters of the chest a strong desire to see them to be restored so that one day oh maybe Concorde got us. Outdoors Maryland is a production of Maryland Public Television which is soley responsible

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