The tweens, whose ears are more tuned to cell phones and iPods, focused instead on the mingled sounds of bird calls and a light breeze rustling through the autumn treetops as their canoes bobbed side by side in a small cove.
After a lesson on marsh ecology, it was back to the shoreline for the group from Severn River Middle School for the second half of their day-long field trip to the Philip Merrill Environmental Center at the Chesapeake Bay Foundation headquarters in Bay Ridge.
Claire Jaeger, manager of the center's...
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