Environmental Protection, Restoration, Education, and Activism to Save a National Treasure 

Pollution and other harmful activities degrade the Bay. The Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF) fights for strong and effective laws and regulations. CBF also works cooperatively with government, business, and citizens in partnerships to protect and restore the Bay. When necessary, we use legal means to force compliance with existing laws.

Since being created in 1967, we have achieved significant milestones to arrest the Bay system's decline and to begin to restore its health. From the landmark EPA study of the Chesapeake Bay in the 1970s to the first interstate Chesapeake Bay Agreement in 1983; from Maryland's historic sewage treatment bond bill in 2004, Virginia’s comparable legislative commitment in 2005, and Pennsylvania's innovative tax credit program in 2007, CBF has been saving the Bay.

New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia

Crabs Crab cakes Oysters Rockfish Smith Island 6-layer (12-layer?) cake

Chesapeake: Exploring the Water Trail of Capt. John Smith by John Page Williams; Watermen of the Chesapeake by Mick Blackistone; Susquehanna: River of Dreams by Susan Q. Stranahan; Landfall Along the Chesapeake: In the Wake of Capt. John Smith by Susan Schmidt; Life in the Chesapeake Bay by Lippson & Lippson; John Smith's Chesapeake Voyages 1607-1609 by Rountree, Clark, and Mountford

Growing underwater grasses and planting them in the Bay and rivers. Growing oysters and planting them on reefs. Creating forested buffers and planting trees. Sending emails to local, state, and federal legislators to clean up the Bay. Teaching kids, educators, and adults about this wonderful Bay of ours! Marsh mucking. Kayaking. Fishing. Boating.

The joys of the Bay, favorite places on the Bay and its rivers, favorite places on the Susquehanna, water quality Saving the Bay, oysters, crabs and crabbing, fish and fishing, getting kids outdoors