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- VOLUNTEERS NEEDED TO PLANT TRE...
Louisa County creek
Saturday, November 21 at 9:00am - Stream Buffer Planting (Myersv...
Little Catoctin Creek (Frederick Co...
Saturday, November 14 at 9:00am - Maryland 100 Year Horizon Proj...
Martin's West
Wednesday, October 28 at 8:30am - South River Greenway Reforesta...
Anne Arundel Countym Crownsville, MD
Sunday, October 25 at 10:00am - 350.org Copenhagen Climate Act...
The Bike House
Saturday, October 24 at 12:00pm - Be Part of a Historic Event fo...
Sandy Point State Park, MD
Monday, October 19 at 10:45am - Homeport Farm Park Tree Planting
Homeport Farm Park
Saturday, October 17 at 10:00am - Farm Stream Buffer Planting, P...
Kearneysville, WV
Saturday, October 17 at 9:00am - Chesapeake Bay Foundation Focu...
Philip Merrill Environmental Center
Thursday, October 15 at 6:30pm - Chesapeake Bay Town Hall Meeting
St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church
Wednesday, October 14 at 6:30pm
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Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s President Will Baker delivers a message about the 10th annual State of the Bay report. The report scored the Chesapeake again this year a 28 on a scale of 100.
Ben Gibson I just became a fan today of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. I am the Innkeeper of Sandaway Waterfront Lodging in Oxford, Maryland. The health of the Chesapeake Bay is very important to me and my guests. Sandaway has a private sandy beach for B&B guests to enjoy. Visit my profile and follow Sandaway on facebook. We just created our facebook page this month.
Chesapeake Bay Foundation Op-Ed by CBF Pennsylvania Executive Director Matt Ehrhart about the Chesapeake Clean Water and Ecosystem Restoration Act. If you want to urge your senators and representatives to support the bill, go to http://www.cbf.org/pass117
Source: www.pennlive.com
We are all dependent on our upstream neighbors to send clean water to us, and we all have a responsibility to provide clean water to our downstream neighbors. This applies in our streams and rivers as well as in the regional Chesapeake Bay watershed.
Chesapeake Bay Foundation Pollution violations without penalties. How do you like that? Vent at www.cbf.org/baydaily
Source: www.cbf.org
Bay Daily is a blog about environmental issues in the Chesapeake Bay region.
Chesapeake Bay Foundation A whiffle ball is my fortress. www.cbf.org/baydaily
Source: www.cbf.org
Bay Daily is a blog about environmental issues in the Chesapeake Bay region.
Rhonda Ulmer
Please take 10 seconds to Make a Difference and vote online for parent volunteer Rhonda Ulmer to win $25K grant for local PTA. We need “One Million Online Votes” - Please SPREAD the WORD. Voting ends 11/24. Thanks for your support! http://www.womenofworth.com/Honorees/Hon
Source: www.womenofworth.com
When Van Bokkelen Elementary School was placed on the Maryland Department of Education’s takeover list due to its low test scores, Rhonda Ulmer set out to improve student achievement and help families as a whole. ...
Chesapeake Bay Foundation A grim doorman for an underwater condo complex. What? Go to www.cbf.org/baydaily
Source: www.cbf.org
Bay Daily is a blog about environmental issues in the Chesapeake Bay region.
Dan Haas
This morning I stopped off at Piscataway Park off of Bryan's Landing Road in PG County. I was there to view a relatively-rare bird, an Eared Grebe, which was swimming and diving in the river just as my friends had described.
Sadly, this river was absolutely disgusting. It was hard to tell a Wigeon from an old shopping... bag or a Gadwall from a rusty old oil can.
TRASH. Everything from plastic bottles to wrappers, beers cans to giant plastic trashcans. You name it... it was all floating down the river or washed up on the river banks. The sight of it could best be described as absolutely awful. Oh, and I should mention that just there in the background was George Washington's home. There stood Mount Vernon high on the hill, overlooking a majestic river of garbage.Read More
Sadly, this river was absolutely disgusting. It was hard to tell a Wigeon from an old shopping... bag or a Gadwall from a rusty old oil can.
TRASH. Everything from plastic bottles to wrappers, beers cans to giant plastic trashcans. You name it... it was all floating down the river or washed up on the river banks. The sight of it could best be described as absolutely awful. Oh, and I should mention that just there in the background was George Washington's home. There stood Mount Vernon high on the hill, overlooking a majestic river of garbage.Read More
Chesapeake Bay Foundation Watch out for this biker gang. They come armed not with chains and knives, but science. www.cbf.org/baydaily
Source: www.cbf.org
Bay Daily is a blog about environmental issues in the Chesapeake Bay region.
Chesapeake Bay Foundation Construction of new poultry houses on Maryland's eastern shore has been on hold since February because of newly-enforced federal pollution control regulations. But that could change on Dec. 1, when Maryland issues its new rules for manure runoff. What do you think about this? Who should regulate poultry waste -- the federal or state governments? Or nobody? Go to www.cbf.org/baydaily
Source: www.cbf.org
Bay Daily is a blog about environmental issues in the Chesapeake Bay region.
Chesapeake Bay Foundation Was I too vague about vagueness? I feel vaguely guilty. To know specifically what I'm blathering about, go to www.cbf.org/baydaily
Source: www.cbf.org
Bay Daily is a blog about environmental issues in the Chesapeake Bay region.
Chesapeake Bay Foundation
RICHMOND, VA. – The Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF) is seeking volunteers to help plant 700 trees along a Louisa County creek on Saturday, November 21, 2009, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
The volunteers are needed to help establish a forested “buffer” beside the creek, which drains into the South Anna River, a tributary of the ...Pamunkey and York rivers, and ultimately the Chesapeake Bay. Trees, shrubs, and grasses planted along the banks of streams help trap and filter soil and harmful pollutants before they can run off and degrade water quality downstream and in Chesapeake Bay. The trees also help shade the water, stabilize erosion, and provide food and shelter for wildlife.
Volunteers should dress for the weather, wearing layers of clothes to adjust for variable weather conditions, and bring a hat, sturdy shoes, work gloves, a shovel or garden spade, plenty of water to drink, and a travel mug to enjoy hot chocolate that CBF will have on site. Volunteers may also want to pack a brown-bag lunch to eat after the planting.
Volunteers can RSVP and get directions to the planting site by contacting Jess Barton at 804/780-1392 or emailing jbarton@cbf.org.
Editors: Accompanying CBF photograph is generic example of volunteer tree planting. Coverage/photography of the actual Nov. 21 planting event is welcome. Please contact Chuck Epes, 804/780-1392 or email cepes@cbf.org .
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The volunteers are needed to help establish a forested “buffer” beside the creek, which drains into the South Anna River, a tributary of the ...Pamunkey and York rivers, and ultimately the Chesapeake Bay. Trees, shrubs, and grasses planted along the banks of streams help trap and filter soil and harmful pollutants before they can run off and degrade water quality downstream and in Chesapeake Bay. The trees also help shade the water, stabilize erosion, and provide food and shelter for wildlife.
Volunteers should dress for the weather, wearing layers of clothes to adjust for variable weather conditions, and bring a hat, sturdy shoes, work gloves, a shovel or garden spade, plenty of water to drink, and a travel mug to enjoy hot chocolate that CBF will have on site. Volunteers may also want to pack a brown-bag lunch to eat after the planting.
Volunteers can RSVP and get directions to the planting site by contacting Jess Barton at 804/780-1392 or emailing jbarton@cbf.org.
Editors: Accompanying CBF photograph is generic example of volunteer tree planting. Coverage/photography of the actual Nov. 21 planting event is welcome. Please contact Chuck Epes, 804/780-1392 or email cepes@cbf.org .
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Time:9:00AM Saturday, November 21st
Location:Louisa County creek
Chesapeake Bay Foundation Is your elected representative in Congress for the Bay? Or against the Bay? Enough talk. This is the moment of truth. Go to www.cbf.org/baydaily to find out where they really stand. And then take your stand.
Source: www.cbf.org
Bay Daily is a blog about environmental issues in the Chesapeake Bay region.
Chesapeake Bay Foundation Some reactions to the Obama Administration's new Chesapeake Bay cleanup plan: "Feds Back Off..." and "Change? Ha ha ha." What's your reaction? Go to www.cbf.org/baydaily
Source: www.cbf.org
Bay Daily is a blog about environmental issues in the Chesapeake Bay region.
Stephanie Simpson
Developers like the ICC need to be be held accountable for dumping waste into tributaries that pollute the Chesapeake Bay.
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HE: Do they believe we have a right to clean air, clean water, and vibrant natural resources in our public spaces? If the answer is yes, then regulations on agricultural polluters, air polluters, and land ...
Abraham Brody
What about making the Chesapeake Bay a National Park? Sound like a modest proposal? We need to ask our politicians to consider this. In 2002 there was an attempt under a Republican administration to get this started. Some interesting links:
http://www.epa.gov/chesapeakebaytmdl/
http://www.nps.gov/CACO/index.htm
htt...p://www.nps.gov/caha/index.htm
http://www.nps.gov/glba/index.htm
http://www.nps.gov/CHOH/index.htm
http://www.bayjournal.com/article.cfm?ar
http://www.baygateways.net/finalreport/C
http://www.wtop.com/?nid=596&sid=1738494
As you can see we already have several waterways that are national parks near urban areas (Cape Cod, C&O Canal), cruise lanes (Glacier Bay), and intercoastal waterways (Cape Hatteras). No reason why the Chesapeake Bay and its watershed can't be made into a National Park. We should at minimum insist each state in the watershed to build its own areas for National Park Service preservation. Also it looks like the polluters of the bay will have a program like Kyoto with a system of credits to establish pollution limits. And don't forget even Yosemite has an urban blight, it is called Hetch Hechy Reservior:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hetch_Hetch
http://www.epa.gov/chesapeakebaytmdl/
http://www.nps.gov/CACO/index.htm
htt...p://www.nps.gov/caha/index.htm
http://www.nps.gov/glba/index.htm
http://www.nps.gov/CHOH/index.htm
http://www.bayjournal.com/article.cfm?ar
http://www.baygateways.net/finalreport/C
http://www.wtop.com/?nid=596&sid=1738494
As you can see we already have several waterways that are national parks near urban areas (Cape Cod, C&O Canal), cruise lanes (Glacier Bay), and intercoastal waterways (Cape Hatteras). No reason why the Chesapeake Bay and its watershed can't be made into a National Park. We should at minimum insist each state in the watershed to build its own areas for National Park Service preservation. Also it looks like the polluters of the bay will have a program like Kyoto with a system of credits to establish pollution limits. And don't forget even Yosemite has an urban blight, it is called Hetch Hechy Reservior:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hetch_Hetch
Source: www.epa.gov
EPA will establish and oversee achievement of a strict "pollution diet" known as a Total Maximum Daily Load, or TMDL, to remove excess pounds of nitrogen, phosphorus, and sediment harming the Bay and its network of waterways. ...
