Recently Added Publications

Publication date: April 2nd, 2019 in Agreement

Bay Barometer: Health and Restoration in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed (2017-2018)

The data in Bay Barometer reflect the Chesapeake Bay’s health over the course of many years and, in some cases, decades. The publication offers a snapshot of the best available information from 2017 and 2018 on ecological health and our efforts to protect and restore the nation’s largest estuary, as well as our progress toward achieving the goals and outcomes of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement.

Publication date: June 16th, 2014 in Agreement

Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement

Three decades after the Chesapeake Bay Program was formed, its partners have recommitted to restoring the watershed by signing the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement.

This plan for collaboration across the Bay’s political boundaries clarifies our vision, mission and values and establishes a set of goals and outcomes for the restoration of the Bay, its tributaries and the lands that surround them. This agreement encourages a forward-looking approach to conservation, focusing on immediate results and recognizing that our long-term efforts must be sustained by and for future generations.

Learn more about the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement.

Publication date: January 11th, 2011 in Agreement

Chesapeake Bay Agreement - 1983

Overview of actions agreed upon by the signatories to assess and oversee the implementation of coordinated plans to improve and protect the water quality and living resources of the Chesapeake Bay estuarine system, as the newly formed Chesapeake Executive Council.

Publication date: January 11th, 2011 in Agreement

Federal Agencies on Ecosystems Management in the Chesapeake Bay

Representatives of the participating Federal agencies, commit to managing the Chesapeake Bay watershed as a cohesive ecosystem, and recommit to working together and with the states and other parties to achieve the goals of the Chesapeake Bay Agreement

Publication date: January 11th, 2011 in Agreement

Potomac American Heritage River Watershed Agreement

The President's 1997 initiative to support communities in their efforts to restore and protect America's rivers brought together 22 agencies and departments that became Federal Agency partners of the Chesapeake Bay Program.

Publication date: January 11th, 2011 in Agreement

Special Tributary Strategy for Federal Lands in the District of Columbia

The goal of the Special Strategy is to reduce the amount of nutrients, principally nitrogen and phosphorus, entering the tributaries of Chesapeake Bay.  The Chesapeake Bay Program jurisdictions of Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and the District of Columbia.