Chesapeake Bay Bridge

transportation, food and income for many people. The Chesapeake Bay provides hundreds of people with jobs, habitats for a wide variety of animals and transportation for goods. Since John Smith sailed to America and upon entering the Bay said “Within is a country that may have the prerogative over the most pleasant places known, for large and pleasant navigable rivers, heaven and earth never agreed better to frame a place for man's habitation” (John Smith) the Bay has been an integral part of life in the United

Aquatic Ecosystem. A bay called the Chesapeake Bay. The Chesapeake Bay is located near Maryland, Virginia, New Jersey, and Delaware. There are Mammals in the Bay. Larger creatures that thrive in the Bay are bottlenose dolphins, which are plentiful in deeper waters but can also be found near harbors. Water mammals share the watershed with the on-land animals such as river otters, the white-tailed and sika deer, bobcats, marsh rabbits, muskrat, and red fox. Also In the Chesapeake Bay there are oyster reefs

There are many different ways to determine the health of a river. The class took a trip to the Susquehanna River to explore and learn about it. The Susquehanna River contributes forty-four percent of the water that enters the Chesapeake Bay. Because of this, it is essential that the Susquehanna River stays clean. There are many testable indicators when determining the health of the river. Some of the indicators are the levels of pH, dissolved oxygen, nitrates, phosphates, and temperature. An

diversity being sown in the early days of colonization when the Chesapeake and New England colonies grew into distinctive societies. Even though both regions were primarily English, they had similarities as well as striking differences. The differentiating characteristics among the Chesapeake and New England colonies developed due to geography, religion, and motives for colonial expansion.      Virginia, the Chesapeake Bay area, was not interested in long-term colonization in America

Differences between the Chesapeake Bay and New England ColoniesThere are many key differences that distinguish the inhabitants of the New England colonies from those of the Chesapeake Bay colonies. These dissimilarities include but are not limited to the differences between the social structure, family life, forms of government, religion, and the lives of indentured servants and children in the two colonies. The social structure and family life of the two colonies varied greatly. The inhabitants

SAVING NATURE’S JEWEL: A LOOK INTO RESTORING THE POPULATION OF EASTERN OYSTERS IN THE CHESAPEAKE BAY STEPHANIE HWANG ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND “He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.” – Jonathan Swift, Irish Satirist INTRODUCTION Imagine you are sitting on a wooden rocking chair on a balcony overlooking a pristine body of water, slowly swaying back and forth. In the distance, you can see trees border the other shoreline and a small island placed haphazardly in the center of the water. Looking up

One of the world’s oldest rivers and also one of America’s most polluted, the Susquehanna River is facing an escalating environmental threat. The 464 mile long river runs through four states, eventually into the Chesapeake Bay and then the Atlantic Ocean and provides drinking water for over 6 million people. Pennsylvania contains much of the country’s most fertile farm lands and holds 21,000 of the 27,000 square miles of the river’s watershed area. The agriculture industry is the largest contributor

Fig. 1.1 Scene in Fig. 1.1., the Chesapeake Bay is substantial in size; at roughly 64,000 miles, it contains roughly fifty rivers and thousands of streams and creeks. It encompasses parts of 6 states, including all of Washington, DC. The Chesapeake Bay is what is known as a watershed, an area that contributes to the drainage to a water body, stream, river, lake or ocean. Rainwater that falls within the 64,000 square miles that is the Chesapeake Bay will subsequently travel through many streams

Chesepeke Bay Oyster Restoration Govenor of maryland The Problem I will be addressing is the delince of the oysters in the chspeke bay. The community needs to be aware of this issues more and a little bit more education on these oysters and ways they can help save the oysters. I have some proposals. I know some people say they are “just oysters” they are very important component of our living ecosystem of the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries. There are some steps the community can do to help

The Chesapeake Bay is one of the largest and most useful renewable resources not only in the United States, but in the world. The Chesapeake can be replenished naturally and has been used for hundreds of years. There are many use and non-use values of the Chesapeake. Use value implies that attributes of nature are being utilized in some sense. In the case of the Chesapeake this can refer to the crabbing, fishing, ecotourism and scenic values of the bay. Ecotourism is when people visit a natural