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Author | : J. R. Schubel |
Publisher | : Archway Publishing |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2021-05-06 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 166570439X |
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The Chesapeake Bay is the nation’s largest estuary. After slow deterioration for several centuries, the Chesapeake Bay Program was launched in 1983 to restore it. After spending more than $24 billion, the results of the restoration program are disappointing. The Bay Program has arrested the decline of the Bay, but it has failed to achieve its restoration goals—something that will become more challenging with climate change. The rate of environmental change today is more rapid than at any time in the history of humanity. The concept of restoration—to return to an earlier time and condition—is an outmoded concept for coastal ecosystems like the Chesapeake Bay that are at the leading edge of change. A better strategy would be to focus on shaping the future Bay. While we cannot create the future Bay, we have many of the tools to shape it, tools that have never been used as a complement to existing efforts. Learn about the past and present of the Bay, how climate change will affect its future, and how we can intervene to shape the future of the Chesapeake.
Author | : American Water Resources Association |
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Release | : 1976 |
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Total Pages | : 130 |
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Author | : Howard R. Ernst |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780742523517 |
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The USA touts Chesapeake Bay as its premier environmental restoration programme, yet the Bay remains in poor condition.
Author | : Katherine J. Livie |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2015-10-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1625853920 |
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This cultural and ecological history explores the rise of Chesapeake’s mighty mollusk from Colonial-era harvesting to contemporary cultivation. Oysters are an essential part of Chesapeake Bay culture and cuisine, as well as the ecological and historical lifeblood of the region. When colonists first sailed these abundant shores, they described massive shoals of foot-long oysters. In later years, however, the bottomless appetite of the Gilded Age and great fleets of skipjacks took their toll. Disease, environmental pressures, and overconsumption decimated the population by the end of the twentieth century. To combat the problem, Virginia began leasing its waters to private oyster farmers. Today, these boutique oyster farms are sustainably meeting the culinary demand of a new generation of connoisseurs. But in Maryland, passionate debate continues among scientists and oystermen whether aquaculture or wild harvesting is the better path. With careful research and interviews with experts, author Kate Livie presents this dynamic story and a glimpse of what the future may hold.
Author | : Alice Jane Lippson |
Publisher | : Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM |
Total Pages | : 858 |
Release | : 2006-06-19 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0801891981 |
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“The best-written and best-illustrated guide ever about a North American tidal estuary. It is the model for all future coastal nature guides.” —Whole Earth Review Life in the Chesapeake Bay is the most important book ever published on America’s largest estuary. Since publication of the first edition in 1984, tens of thousands of naturalists, boaters, fishermen, and conservationists have relied on the book’s descriptions of the Bay’s plants, animals, and diverse habitats. Superbly illustrated and clearly written, this acclaimed guide describes hundreds of plants and animals and their habitats, from diamondback terrapins to blue crabs to hornshell snails. Now in its third edition, the book has been updated with a new gallery of thirty-nine color photographs and dozens of new species descriptions and illustrations. The new edition retains the charm of an engaging classic while adding a decade of new research. This classic guide to the plants and animals of the Chesapeake Bay will appeal to a variety of readers—year-round residents and summer vacationers, professional biologists and amateur scientists, conservationists and sportsmen. “Handsome, generously illustrated . . . All of the Bay’s richness is catalogued here.” —The Washington Post Book World “A story book, a field guide and a reference work, and anyone interested in fishing, ecology, or our bay should own it.” —The Baltimore Sun “The region’s quintessential field and reference guide.” —Chesapeake Life Magazine “One of the most popular, well written, and useful guides to the Chesapeake.” —Northeastern Naturalist
Author | : Renee Brooks Catacalos |
Publisher | : Johns Hopkins University Press |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2018-10-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1421426897 |
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Touching on everything from farm-based breweries and distilleries to urban hoop house farms to grass-fed beef, The Chesapeake Table celebrates the people working hard to put great local food on our plates.
Author | : William B. Cronin |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2005-06-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780801874352 |
Download The Disappearing Islands of the Chesapeake Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An appendix documents the many small islands that have dropped entirely from view since the seventeenth century.
Author | : Howard R. Ernst |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2009-11-16 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1461636752 |
Download Fight for the Bay Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In this important new book on the declining health of one of America's leading environmental treasures, Howard Ernst reveals a Chesapeake bay that has become functionally dead. He argues that the Chesapeake Bay succumbed to a 'light green' environmental movement that has too often adopted a philosophy of compromise over confrontation and that has fueling a 'political dead zone' where political leaders posture but fail to make the hard decisions needed to achieve real improvement in the Bay's health. While blunt in his evaluation of past and present failures to restore the Bay, Ernst believes that there is still time to turn the restoration effort around and sets out new 'dark green' strategies to do so. In the concluding chapter, five long-time bay activists provide first-person accounts of their battles and hopes for the future. Hailed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as 'a must read for anyone concerned about environmental protection,' this challenging book provides a wake-up call for everyone concerned about the future of the Chesapeake Bay and other ecological treasures through out America.
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Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 293 |
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ISBN | : 0271046651 |
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