Publications

This study summarizes work to develop and evaluate operating models for the Chesapeake Bay blue crab fishery.

View document [PDF, 5.2 MB] A Population Simulation Model for Blue Crab Stock Assessment Performance Evaluation

This plan is meant to expand, enhance and restore Cheverly’s natural environments as intact and healthy ecosystems capable of providing the multiple ecological and economic resources and services that are necessary to sustain the community.

View document [PDF, 1.1 MB] Cheverly Green Infrastructure Plan

This guide demonstrates how municipalities can use land and water conservation programs to improve their communities and protect watersheds and water resources.

View document [PDF, 3.5 MB] Conewango Creek Initiative Conservation Toolbox for Municipalities

This technical resource provides information for assessing, identifying and protecting healthy watersheds. 

View document [PDF, 101.9 MB] Identifying and Protecting Healthy Watersheds: Concepts, Assessments, and Management Approaches

This paper explores the various methods that have been used to quantify the value of ecosystem services.

View document [PDF, 1.6 MB] Economic Benefits of Protecting Healthy Watersheds: A Literature Review

This report evaluates why progress toward the Chesapeake Bay Total Maximum Daily Load and water quality standards has been slower than expected and offers options for how progress can be accelerated.

View document [PDF, 7.0 MB] Achieving Water Quality Goals in the Chesapeake Bay: A Comprehensive Evaluation of System Response (CESR)

This report provides recommendations for Chesapeake Bay Program leadership to foster a strong and resilient monitoring network that will take the partnership into the next generation of watershed restoration.

View document [PDF, 22.5 MB] Building Environmental Intelligence: Leading the Future of Water Quality Monitoring

The research needs and priorities of the Chesapeake Bay Program's Sediment Workgroup through February 2007.

View document [PDF, 45.5 KB] Recommendations for Further Sediment Research

A report on the proceedings of a September 2008 workshop that convened watershed managers, scientists, regulators, engineers and environmental restoration professionals to present and obtain new information related to watershed sediment science and policies.

View document [PDF, 239.7 KB] Fine Sediment and the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Workshop Proceedings

Recommendations from the Local Planning Goals Task Force regarding whether Phase III Watershed Implementation Plans should include local planning goals and, if so, how these goals could be expressed in different jurisdictions.

View document [PDF, 103.0 KB] Local Planning Goals Task Force Recommendations