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Monday, August 15, 2016

Changing Chesapeake: Terrapins Coming Back From the Brink

The man-made Poplar Island in the middle of the Chesapeake is bursting with new and unexpected life.

Poplar Island is so popular, new residents no one expected would show up are now moving in daily.

It’s bursting with new life thanks to a massive restoration project using dredged material from the bottom of Baltimore’s shipping channel in the Chesapeake Bay.

The island was once on the verge of extinction, according to Justin Callahan of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. “By the time I first got here in 1993, there were about three to five acres left.”

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