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Author: Howard R. Ernst
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780742523517
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe USA touts Chesapeake Bay as its premier environmental restoration programme, yet the Bay remains in poor condition.
Author: Jamie L.H. Goodall
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2020-02-24
Total Pages: 149
ISBN-13: 1439669090
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“An epic history of piracy . . . Goodall explores the role of these legendary rebels and describes the fine line between piracy and privateering.” —WYPR The story of Chesapeake pirates and patriots begins with a land dispute and ends with the untimely death of an oyster dredger at the hands of the Maryland Oyster Navy. From the golden age of piracy to Confederate privateers and oyster pirates, the maritime communities of the Chesapeake Bay are intimately tied to a fascinating history of intrigue, plunder and illicit commerce raiding. Author Jamie L.H. Goodall introduces infamous men like Edward “Blackbeard” Teach and “Black Sam” Bellamy, as well as lesser-known local figures like Gus Price and Berkeley Muse, whose tales of piracy are legendary from the harbor of Baltimore to the shores of Cape Charles. “Rather than an unchanging monolith, Goodall creates a narrative filled with dynamic movement and exchange between the characters, setting, conflict, and resolution of her story. Goodall positioned this narrative to be successful on different levels.” —International Social Science Review
Author: John C. Appleby
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1783275790
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the development of the fur trade in Chesapeake Bay during the seventeenth century, and the wide-ranging links that were formed in a new and extensive transatlantic chain of supply and consumption. It considers changing fashion in England, the growing demand for fur, at a time when the Russian fur trade was in decline, examines native North Americans and their trading and other exchanges with colonists, and explores the nature of colonial society, including the commercial ambitions of a varied range of investors. As such, it outlines the intense rivalry which existed between different colonies and colonial interests. Although the book argues that fur never supplanted tobacco as the region's principal export, noting that the trade declined as new, more profitable sources of supply were opened up, nevertheless the case of the Chesapeake fur trade provides an excellent example of how different elements in a new transatlantic enterprise fitted together and had a profound impact on each other.
Author: Tom Pelton
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2018-03-21
Total Pages: 279
ISBN-13: 1421424754
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLooking to the future, Pelton offers a provocative vision of the hard steps that must be taken if we truly want to save the Bay.
Author: Alice Jane Lippson
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2006-06-19
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780801883378
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLife in the Chesapeake Bay is the most important book ever published on America's largest estuary. Since publication of the first edition in 1984, tens of thousands of naturalists, boaters, fishermen, and conservationists have relied on the book's descriptions of the Bay's plants, animals, and diverse habitats. Superbly illustrated and clearly written, this acclaimed guide describes hundreds of plants and animals and their habitats, from diamondback terrapins to blue crabs to hornshell snails. Now in its third edition, the book has been updated with a new gallery of thirty-nine color photographs and dozens of new species descriptions and illustrations. The new edition retains the charm of an engaging classic while adding a decade of new research. This classic guide to the plants and animals of the Chesapeake Bay will appeal to a variety of readers—year-round residents and summer vacationers, professional biologists and amateur scientists, conservationists and sportsmen.
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Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 1428900713
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Susan Schmidt
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2006-04
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780801882968
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs Schmidt circles the Bay counterclockwise from Jamestown, she explores Smith's encounters with Native Americans and the Bay's ecological changes over the past hundred years. On each river and creek, she quotes Smith's journals on matching wits with Powhatan, meeting Pocahontas, surviving thunderstorms, ambush, and a stingray's barb. Anchored on wild creeks, Schmidt observes swans and dragonflies, lightning and sunsets; in port she interviews colorful characters and working watermen about blue crabs and oysters.
Author: William B. Cronin
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2005-06-17
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9780801874352
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn appendix documents the many small islands that have dropped entirely from view since the seventeenth century.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Water and Wildlife
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Published: 2015
Total Pages: 144
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2011-09-26
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 0309210828
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Chesapeake Bay is North America's largest and most biologically diverse estuary, as well as an important commercial and recreational resource. However, excessive amounts of nitrogen, phosphorus, and sediment from human activities and land development have disrupted the ecosystem, causing harmful algae blooms, degraded habitats, and diminished populations of many species of fish and shellfish. In 1983, the Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP) was established, based on a cooperative partnership among the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the state of Maryland, and the commonwealths of Pennsylvania and Virginia, and the District of Columbia, to address the extent, complexity, and sources of pollutants entering the Bay. In 2008, the CBP launched a series of initiatives to increase the transparency of the program and heighten its accountability and in 2009 an executive order injected new energy into the restoration. In addition, as part of the effect to improve the pace of progress and increase accountability in the Bay restoration, a two-year milestone strategy was introduced aimed at reducing overall pollution in the Bay by focusing on incremental, short-term commitments from each of the Bay jurisdictions. The National Research Council (NRC) established the Committee on the Evaluation of Chesapeake Bay Program Implementation for Nutrient Reduction in Improve Water Quality in 2009 in response to a request from the EPA. The committee was charged to assess the framework used by the states and the CBP for tracking nutrient and sediment control practices that are implemented in the Chesapeake Bay watershed and to evaluate the two-year milestone strategy. The committee was also to assess existing adaptive management strategies and to recommend improvements that could help CBP to meet its nutrient and sediment reduction goals. The committee did not attempt to identify every possible strategy that could be implemented but instead focused on approaches that are not being implemented to their full potential or that may have substantial, unrealized potential in the Bay watershed. Because many of these strategies have policy or societal implications that could not be fully evaluated by the committee, the strategies are not prioritized but are offered to encourage further consideration and exploration among the CBP partners and stakeholders.
