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A Population Simulation Model for Blue Crab Stock Assessment Performance Evaluation
Publication date:This study summarizes work to develop and evaluate operating models for the Chesapeake Bay blue crab fishery.
Cheverly Green Infrastructure Plan
Publication date: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
Conewango Creek Initiative Conservation Toolbox for Municipalities
Publication date: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
Identifying and Protecting Healthy Watersheds: Concepts, Assessments, and Management Approaches
Publication date:This technical resource provides information for assessing, identifying and protecting healthy watersheds.
Economic Benefits of Protecting Healthy Watersheds: A Literature Review
Publication date: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
Achieving Water Quality Goals in the Chesapeake Bay: A Comprehensive Evaluation of System Response (CESR)
Publication date: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.
Building Environmental Intelligence: Leading the Future of Water Quality Monitoring
Publication date: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.
Recommendations for Further Sediment Research
Publication date: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
Fine Sediment and the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Workshop Proceedings
Publication date: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
Local Planning Goals Task Force Recommendations
Publication date: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