New York State Landowner Develops Wetland to Protect Local Stream, Chesapeake Bay

On the first Wednesday in December, landowner Ray Lewis proudly looked across a recently constructed wetlands on his upstate New York farm.

By Alicia Pimental |
A photo of man gesturing to two others at water's edge on the constructed wetland, with his wife talking to another man some distance away.
Jeff Lape, left, director of the Chesapeake Bay Program, discusses the design of a newly constructed wetland with landowner Ray Lewis, right at Lewis' farm along Carr's Creek near Sidney in northwestern Delaware County, N.Y., on Dec. 2, 2009. In the background, Sidney Center Improvement Group president Joe Lally and Loddie Marsh, Lewis' wife, discuss local wildlife observations. (Photo by Alicia Pimental/Chesapeake Bay Program)

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