GEORGETOWN, Del. - The Delaware Center for Inland Bays is hosting their Coast Forward Summit and open house at the Georgetown CHEER center right now.
Meghan Noe Fellows, the Director of Science and Restoration at the center for Inland Bays, says the summit is made up of a group of people who are interested in figuring out how to establish coastal resilience in light of small and large changes that are happening in the Inland Bays watershed.
"Our role is to make connections with our community, with our partners and try to enact and impact better water quality, better watershed health, more space for the fish that we like to catch and cleaner water for us to swim in or go boating," Fellows explained.
Fellows says Thursday's summit is to discuss ways to achieve those goals.
"In Delaware, we have a lovely living shoreline committee. So we have a lot of support to make those natural connections between the edge of the bay and the edge of the land," said Fellows.
Fellows told CoastTV there are different ways to get involved and help protect the Inland Bays.
"Resiliency comes from the whole watershed, the holistic watershed working together. If I'm planting trees in Georgetown or building an oyster reef in Ocean View, both of these have really positive impacts on how our community is resilient," Fellows explained.
The Delaware Center for Inland Bays is currently hosting an open house from 5 to 7 p.m. and encourages people to stop by and learn how they can help protect the environment.
