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How can we save Chesapeake Bay?
Things You Can Do to Help Protect the Chesapeake Bay
- Plant Trees for the Bay.
- Dispose of marine wastes properly.
- Don’t dump anything down storm drains.
- Practice Careful Catch.
- Clean up litter on the shores of the Bay.
- Use BayScaping around your home.
- Buy a Chesapeake Bay License Plate.
- Grow an Oyster Garden.
What is the Chesapeake Bay program and what are its restoration objectives?
The Chesapeake Bay Program partners envision an environmentally and economically sustainable Chesapeake Bay watershed with clean water, abundant life, conserved lands and access to the water, a vibrant cultural heritage and a diversity of engaged citizens and stakeholders.
Why is the Chesapeake Bay important?
It is one of the most productive estuaries in the world, with over 3,600 species of animals and plants. The bay provides vitally important habitats for wildlife, lots of recreational opportunities for people, and is an important fishery upon which both people and wildlife depend.
What are 5 ways you can help save the bay?
Conserve Water:
What is the biggest problem in the Chesapeake Bay?
Unfortunately, the Chesapeake Bay faces serious problems due to human activities, including polluted stormwater runoff, over-fertilization and pollution from animal wastes, deforestation, wetland destruction from agricultural, urban, and suburban development, and sea level rise caused by global climate change.
Is Chesapeake Bay a dead zone?
Plant and animal life are often unable to survive in this environment, which is why the area is referred to as a “dead zone”. The main way in which nutrients can enter the Bay is through polluted runoff flowing from its tributaries around the watershed.
Who created the Chesapeake Bay Program?
Senator Charles “Mac” Mathias
Early History and Formation of the Bay Program In the late 1970s, U.S. Senator Charles “Mac” Mathias (R-Md.) sponsored a Congressionally funded $27 million, five-year study to analyze the Bay’s rapid loss of wildlife and aquatic life.
Why is Chesapeake Bay important?
Why should we save the Chesapeake Bay?
The Chesapeake Bay’s ecosystem impacts the quality of the air we breathe, the water we drink and the food we eat. It’s wetlands protect communities from extreme weather such as erosion, flood waters and storm surges. And the trees that sprawl from the Bay shores and forests cool our communities.
Why should we save the Bay?
The bay provides vitally important habitats for wildlife, lots of recreational opportunities for people, and is an important fishery upon which both people and wildlife depend.
What is being done to help restore the Chesapeake Bay?
In programs across the watershed, many of them conducted with CBF volunteers and partner organizations, CBF is restoring native oysters, planting underwater grasses, and planting trees, to restore the Bay’s natural filters. Check our calendar for upcoming volunteer opportunities.
How can we save the Chesapeake Bay?
How We Save the Bay 1 With Advocacy. CBF and its more than 275,000 members are the most effective voice that exists for protecting the Bay and its rivers and streams. 2 In Our Communities. 3 Through Restoration. 4 With Schools. 5 In the Courtroom. 6 Programs & Initiatives. 7 The Chesapeake Clean Water Blueprint.
What is the Chesapeake Bay Foundation doing to help the Bay?
The Chesapeake Bay Foundation is restoring native oysters, planting underwater grasses, and planting trees to restore the Bay’s natural filters. CBF’s award-winning environmental education program has been one of the cornerstones of our effort to reverse the Bay’s decline.
What organizations are working to save the Chesapeake Bay?
Save the Bay. Founded in 1967, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF) is the largest independent conservation organization dedicated solely to saving the Bay. Save the Bay
What’s in the latest Chesapeake Bay Bill?
The bill contains an increase of $238 million over five years for the Chesapeake Bay Program through EPA and an additional $11.715 billion over five years for the Clean Water State Revolving Fund.