Restoration
Virginia Oyster Gardening Roundups
Returning Gardeners Only. Dates and locations of returning oyster gardener roundups for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation's oyster gardening program.
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Restoration
Returning Gardeners Only. Dates and locations of returning oyster gardener roundups for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation's oyster gardening program.
Restoration
In 2015, the Great Baltimore Oyster Partnership, a collaboration between the Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore's Healthy Harbor Initiative and the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, set an audacious goal to plant five million oysters in Baltimore's Patapsco River. It met that goal in July 2019, but the work continues.
Advocacy
No matter your age or experience, you can advocate for clean water. Not sure where to start? Explore the variety of ways below. Make sure your elected officials know that the Bay and its rivers and streams matter to you.
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In 2018, we had three audacious goals for our Chesapeake—adding 10 billion oysters to the Bay, planting 10 million trees in Pennsylvania, and activating 1…
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This recorded panel discussion explores the evolving future of clean water protection in Virginia and the broader Chesapeake Bay watershed.
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Education Program Resource
Learn Outside with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation in Maryland!
Educational Video
Learn Outside with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation in Virginia!
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This episode of the CBS News program "60 Minutes" looks at Smith Island in the Chesapeake Bay, an island nestled off the coast of Crisfield in Tangier Sound, which is slowly disappearing as sea rises and erosion hits the shoreline. This video is being shared from the "60 Minutes" YouTube channel.
Education Program Resource
Learn Outside with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation in Pennsylvania!
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Brandon Keplinger explains how protecting the Potomac River headwaters is good for the whole river, the Chesapeake Bay, and West Virginia's native brook trout.