PARSONS ISLAND, Md. — With the Chesapeake Bay sloshing at his knee-high boots, Darrin Lowery stood back and squinted at a 10-foot-tall bluff rising above a narrow strip of beach.

United States Senators Angela Alsobrooks and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) are urging the Trump administration to fill all vacant lifeguard positions at Maryland's portion of the Assateague Island ...