If you need proof that the Chesapeake Bay watershed is at a pivotal moment, this month’s headlines provide it. Just yesterday the Atlantic State Marine Fisheries Commission reviewed the concerning findings of an updated stock assessment for striped bass coastwide, a week after annual surveys in Maryland and Virginia offered a bleak outlook for young striped bass in the Bay. There is also evidence of trouble for young blue crabs, part of an ongoing mystery surrounding the Bay’s blue crab population. Yet there is plenty of good news, too. Virginia reversed course on reopening the winter harvest for blue crabs, a controversial move that had invited public backlash. Maryland identified three new rivers for large-scale oyster restoration, while a proposed federal bill would provide more support for oyster recovery. And in Pennsylvania, new grant funding will help expand CBF’s forested buffer work on agricultural land in 12 counties, improving water quality and fish and wildlife habitat. These stories showcase progress is possible when resource managers, local communities, volunteers, restoration groups, and decisionmakers work together to solve problems—a key part of what has made the unique, 40-year Chesapeake Bay restoration partnership so successful. The question now is, can the partnership reinvent itself to meet the challenges of restoration in the 21st century? Also this month, find: more updates from around the Bay in the fall issue of our Save the Bay magazine; resources to help acknowledge the original stewards of our watershed; and ways to stay cozy this fall.