David O?Neill: Saving the Chesapeake one volunteer at a time

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With many people in the midst of enjoying trips to the beach, it?s worth remembering that a battle is being fought on Maryland?s shores.

It is a struggle of huge proportions waged by school children, retirees, teachers and volunteers. They wear baseball caps, soggy boots and muddy jeans, and they carry shovels, rakes and picks. They plant trees along stream banks, pick up cans, bottles, plastic containers and sometimes peer under rocks to look for bugs.

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