The Chesapeake Bay Bibliography
Author : Marilyn Neff Loesch
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Page : pages
File Size : 37,5 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.)
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Author : Marilyn Neff Loesch
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Page : pages
File Size : 37,5 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.)
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Page : 546 pages
File Size : 12,87 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.)
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Page : 570 pages
File Size : 28,6 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.)
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Page : 994 pages
File Size : 15,15 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.)
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Author : Sandra A. Gleeson
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Page : pages
File Size : 32,92 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.)
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Author : Steven Gebauer Davison
Publisher : Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 42,39 MB
Release : 1997
Category : History
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Although media reports suggest that there always has been public concern over the health of the Chesapeake Bay, this is a fairly recent phenomenon. For centuries people saw the bay as a bottomless sink for waste products--a natural decomposer with the ability to freshen itself with ocean inflows. Not until human health and livelihood seemed threatened did people begin to think seriously about management by such methods as treating sewage and limiting seafood harvests. Chesapeake Waters chronicles four centuries of public attitudes about the bay--and legislative responses to them--from 1607, the date of the first English settlement in Jamestown, Virginia, to the close of the twentieth century. In the last few decades, wide-reaching measures by federal and local governments have influenced how people use the bay: the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency completed a massive study of bay quality; the Chesapeake Bay Program was launched; the Critical Area Protection Act went into effect. The authors make sense of these complex programs, place them in historical context, and explain how they have improved the quality of bay waters. Chesapeake Waters is as much about the power of public perception as it is about efforts to oversee bay water quality. In a work rich with anecdotes and historical art and photos, the authors relate how human attitudes and ideas have shaped four hundred years of decisions about the Chesapeake Bay.
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 35,89 MB
Release : 2004-03-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 0309090520
Nonnative Oysters in the Chesapeake Bay discusses the proposed plan to offset the dramatic decline in the bay's native oysters by introducing disease-resistant reproductive Suminoe oysters from Asia. It suggests this move should be delayed until more is known about the environmental risks, even though carefully regulated cultivation of sterile Asian oysters in contained areas could help the local industry and researchers. It is also noted that even though these oysters eat the excess algae caused by pollution, it could take decades before there are enough of them to improve water quality.
Author : David Malmquist
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 41,39 MB
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1493051342
Known for its beauty and bounty, the Chesapeake Bay stretches nearly 200 miles from the mouth of the Susquehanna River to the ocean capes of the Atlantic, its tidal waters enriching the vibrant coastal communities of both Maryland and Virginia. Chesapeake Bay Explorer’s Guide is the perfect reference for visitors who want to know more about the things they see in their visit to the famous estuary, whether they are relaxing on a beach, paddling through a saltmarsh, or watching workboats duck beneath a drawbridge. Explore more than 14,415 miles of shoreline, myriad hiking trails, and scores of wildlife preserves nestled between resort towns and other attractions. This guide provides a concise history of how the Bay was formed, and brief entries with full-color images and easy-to-read descriptions of the flora, fauna, and man-made artifacts found in and around the Bay.
Author : Alice Jane Lippson
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Page : 72 pages
File Size : 36,89 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Medical
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Author : Tom Horton
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 13,8 MB
Release : 2000-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801864261
Water's Way communicates the beauty and essence of the Chesapeake Bay through photogaphy and prose. Those who know and love the Chesapeake will find the bay they treasure on the pages of Water's Way: Life along the Chesapeake. The story of one of North America's most fascinating regions unfolds through the sensitive photographs and prose of two men who have studied the Chesapeake all their lives. Photographer David W. Harp and writer Tom Horton vividly portray how, as Horton writes, "the edges where land and water meet charm us all, from watermen to watercolorists and beachcombers to duck hunters." Water's Way will guide you to "those rare, hidden nooks of the bay country where nature still appears as glorious and untrammeled as it did a thousand years ago." It will also take you to less hidden, but equally intriguing sites within the Chesapeake's reach as Harp and Horton depict the worlds of both nature and humans. An intimate knowledge of and an unwavering reverence for the bay pervade Water's Way. Harp and Horton are as attuned to the romance that still clings to the Chesapeake as they are to the realities that inspire and threaten it. In a time when the region faces tremendous changes and challenges, Water's Way is neither strident nor sentimental. Rather, it is suffused with the fundamental respect for the bay which Harp and Horton see as key to its survival.