Outdoors Maryland

Programming Year 2009

Episodes: 2103 | 2104 | 2105 | 2106 | 2107

Episode 2103
Premiere air date: 2/3/09 at 7:30pm
with repeats on Saturday 2/7/09 at both 5:30am and 5:30pm

Western Maryland Adventures

Episode 2104
Premiere air date: 2/10/09 at 7:30 p.m.
with repeats Saturday 2/14/09 at both 5:30am and 5:30pm

Mountain Steam
Western Maryland Scenic Railroad operates between Cumberland and Frostburg, MD

Hope on the Slope
Snow lovers take to the slopes in search of winter thrills in the mountains of Western Maryland

Hunting for Balance
Hunting to control the deer population in Maryland

Episode 2105
Premiere air date: 2/17/09 at 7:30 p.m.
with repeats Saturday 2/21/09 at both 5:30am and 5:30pm

Battle of the Beetles
Maryland's battle to stop the Emerald Ash Borer

The Keystone Harvest
A closer look at the controversy swirling around the fishing of Menhaden, an important finfish species in the Chesapeake Bay

The Better Angels
Community Gardens

Episode 2106
Premiere air date: 5/26/09 at 7:30pm

Chesapeake Wine Country

Few phrases have quite as much allure for the would-be traveler as "Wine Country". Two words which summon up images of sunny vineyards, cavernous barrel rooms, informal yet artful hospitality, and above all select hand-crafted wines waiting to be tasted. Wine Country is rural and agrarian, a feast for the eye, a delight for the senses. Yet it's organized on a human scale, built upon the dreams of ordinary men and women who choose to make a livelihood from the soil. Above all Wine Country is a place filled with the mystique of the grape and the wonderful alchemy that changes fruit into something approaching art.

For the thirsty traveler in Maryland, every point of the compass leads to Wine Country. It's there in the Eastern Shore, Southern Maryland, the Central Counties and in Western Maryland. Clusters of wineries straddle wine trails, laid out so that a wine tourist can drive the entire circuit in an easy relaxing day. The wines of Maryland await discovery. And the hard working wine makers and grape growers of the Free State are eager to share with you the romance of visiting Wine Country.

Episode 2107
Premiere air date: 6/16/09 at 7:30pm
with repeat on Saturday 6/20/09 at 5:30am

Bugeye: A Chesapeake Legacy

Sid Dixon plans to sail it out of historic St. Michaels piled high with watermelons. He'll point the bow north into the calm shallows of the Miles River, pray for a stiff breeze, and hope it will push him up the Chesapeake and into Fells Point.

Dixon, a colorful Eastern Shore entrepreneur and self-proclaimed Renaissance man, is eager to set sail for the port of Baltimore in the latest hand-crafted boat to emerge from his well-worn work shed.

It's a Bugeye, a working replica of the Chesapeake Bay's water-borne workhorse that plied this region’s waters for more than a century. As the precursor to the Skipjack, the Bugeye did it all – oyster dredging, fishing, and long- and short-haul transport of just about any kind of cargo – even watermelons grown on the Eastern Shore.

Maryland Public Television started following the story of Dixon and his Bugeye in 2004, visiting his St. Michael's boatworks shed regularly to capture the tradition of hand-built boatmaking first-hand. The finished product is Bugeye: A Chesapeake Legacy, a fun-loving look at Dixon's labor of love from keel-laying to launch to time under sail on the open Chesapeake Bay.