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Why Is Water Quality Important?
A CBF Education Student Investigation: What is water quality and why is it important? CBF Educator Rick Mittler explains.
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Wooded Freshwater Wetlands
A CBF Education Student Investigation: Dive into the Freshwater Wetlands investigation and follow along with CBF educators Ronnie Anderson and Ben Carver to learn about the different type of freshwater wetlands in the Bay watershed, what lives in them, and how they are threatened.
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Exploring a Constructed Wetland
A CBF Education Student Investigation: Freshwater wetlands are an important habitat in the Chesapeake Bay region ecosystem.
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What Is Water Quality, Why Is It Important, and How Do You Test It?
A CBF Education Student Investigation
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How to Plant a Bare Root Tree Seedling
To make sure your bare root seedlings get a great head start, watch this step-by-step tutorial by Matt Kowalski, CBF's Virginia Watershed Restoration Scientist.
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The Watershed Journey of A Raindrop
A CBF Education Student Investigation: Watch the journey of Rio the Raindrop as it falls to the land near the Appalachian Mountains and travels through various streams and rivers on its way downhill to the Chesapeake Bay. Along the route, Rio, like other raindrops, is affected by pollution as well as natural filters that make the water cleaner.
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Nutrient Scavenger Hunt
A CBF Education Student Investigation: In this video, join CBF Educators Maya, Ochae, and Nate as they scour their neighborhoods looking for sources of nutrient pollutants and the methods used to reduce them.
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Freshwater Stream Health
A CBF Education Student Investigation: CBF Pennsylvania Educator Doug Walters explores a tributary stream and discusses how to evaluate its health.
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Green Filter or Gray Funnel?
A CBF Education Student Investigation: What happens when rain hits soil? How about pavement?
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Riparian Buffers and Clean Water
A CBF Education Student Investigation: Riparian buffers, which are trees, shrubs or other vegetation along a stream or waterway, are an important tool to improve the health of the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem.
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Oyster Filtering Power
A CBF Education Student Investigation: See for yourself how oysters make the water clearer. After watching it, use our Oyster Power Worksheet to figure out your family’s water usage and calculate how many oysters you’d need to filter that amount of water.
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Ask an Expert: What's Regenerative Agriculture
We’ve heard about growing sustainable food, but what if farmers could go beyond preserving the environment and actually improve it? CBF’s Director of Science and…
