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Title: Bay Beginnings - Pennsylvania Winter 2001

Format: Newsletter
Audience:
General
Length: 4 pp
Contact: Chesapeake Bay Foundation
Description: A quarterly newsletter of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation's Pennsylvania Office

Title: Bay Country
Format: Book
Audience: General
Length: 265 pp
Contact: Chesapeake Bay Foundation
Description: Essays about Bay life and Bay restoration

Title: Bay Journal
Format: Newsletter
Audience: Citizens
Length: Variable
Contact: Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay
Description: Citizen's monthly review (except mid-summer and mid-winter) of tri-state Chesapeake Bay Program progress

Title: Beautiful Swimmers
Format: Book
Audience: General
Length: 304 pp
Contact: Chesapeake Bay Foundation
Description: Pulitzer Prize winning nonfiction account of Bay watermen

Title: CBF Field Guide to Underwater Grasses
Format: Booklet
Audience: General, teachers
Length: 4 pp
Contact: Chesapeake Bay Foundation
Description: Includes a drawing, color photo and key information for 15 species of grass and two species of algae that grow in non-tidal tributaries to the mouth of the Bay

Title: The Changing Chesapeake
Format: Materials
Audience: Teachers (grades 4-8)
Length: 60 pp
Contact: PA Chesapeake Bay Education Office, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Description: An introduction to the natural history of the Bay

Title: Chesapeake
Format: Book
Audience: General
Length: Approx. 1000 pp
Contact: Bookstores, authored by James Mitchner
Description: Historical account of Chesapeake settlement (fiction)

Title: Chesapeake - A Place Between the Waters
Format: Video
Audience: Farmers and general
Length: 28.5 minutes
Contact: Natural Resources Conservation Service
Description: Highlights Maryland farms implementing conservation practices and Bay benefits

Title: Chesapeake: Living Off the Land
Format: Video
Audience: Citizens
Length: 28 minutes
Contact: Chesapeake Bay Foundation
Description: If benchmarks of restoration are achieved, Bay may return to healthy state; includes student study guide

Title: The Chesapeake Bay
Format: Fact sheet
Audience: Citizens
Length: 2 pp
Contact: Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay
Description: Information on the Chesapeake Bay's history and present pollution problems

Title: Chesapeake Bay: Activities for Secondary Students

Format: Materials
Audience:
Teachers
Length: 48 pp
Contact: PA Chesapeake Bay Education Office
Description: Bay activities in biology, geology, chemistry and history

Title: Chesapeake Bay: The Biology
Format: Materials
Audience: Teachers
Length: 43 pp
Contact: PA Chesapeake Bay Education Office
Description: Science activities for K-6 centered on Bay plants and animals

Title: Chesapeake Bay: A Field Guide
Format: Book
Audience: General
Length: 212 pp
Contact: Chesapeake Bay Foundation
Description: Illustrated introduction to natural history of the Chesapeake Bay

Title: Chesapeake Bay Field Trips
Format: Field experience
Audience: 12-years-old and up
Length: 1-10 days
Contact: Chesapeake Bay Foundation
Description: One day or residential educational excursions to various Bay locations

Title: Chesapeake Bay: Fishes
Format: Materials
Audience: Teachers
Length: 35 pp
Contact: PA Chesapeake Bay Education Office
Description: Fish activities for secondary students in art, science, and language arts with Bay focus

Title: Chesapeake Bay Foundation "Save the Bay" Newsletter
Format: Newsletter
Audience: Citizens
Length: Variable
Contact: Chesapeake Bay Foundation
Description: Newsletter for members, good review of current Bay area issues

Title: Chesapeake Bay Foundation Fact Sheets: General Information About the Chesapeake Bay; Nutrient Pollution in the Chesapeake Bay; Reducing Nitrogen and Phosphorous Pollution from Wastewater Treatment Facilities; Bay Grasses; Oysters; Shad; Growth, Sprawl and the Chesapeake Bay; Debunking Sprawl Myths
Format:
Fact sheets
Audience: General
Length: Varies
Contact: Chesapeake Bay Foundation
Description: Series of fact sheets focusing on a variety of issues related to the Chesapeake Bay

Title: Chesapeake Bay: Introduction for Elementary Students
Format: Teachers
Length: 48 pp
Contact: PA Chesapeake Bay Education Office
Description: Bay activities on estuaries, geology, chemistry and human ecology

Title: Chesapeake Bay: Introduction for Secondary Students
Format: Materials
Audience: Teachers
Length: 42 pp
Contact: PA Chesapeake Bay Education Office
Description: Background on Bay geology, chemistry, ecology, human history

Title: Chesapeake Bay: Introduction To An Ecosystem
Format: Booklet
Audience: Citizens
Length: 30 pp
Contact: Chesapeake Bay Program - Communications Office, PA Chesapeake Bay Education Office
Description: Well-illustrated overview for students of Bay ecology

Title: Chesapeake Bay: It Starts With You
Format: Materials
Audience: Teacher (K-adult)
Length: 12 cards
Contact: PA Chesapeake Bay Education Office
Description: Bay activity cards; includes concepts and related activities

Title: Chesapeake Bay Primer
Format: Fact sheet
Audience: General
Length: 4 pp
Contact: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Description: Gives definitions and good information for ecosystems, watershed, estuary, and special information on the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem

Title: Chesapeake Bay: The Twilight Estuary
Format: Film/video
Audience: Citizens
Length: 30 minutes
Contact: PA Chesapeake Bay Education Office, Maryland Sea Grant College
Description: Good introduction to ecology of the Bay and its decline

Title: Chesapeake Bay Wetlands: The vital link between the watershed and the Bay
Format: Booklet
Audience: General
Length: 14pp
Contact: Chesapeake Bay Program - Communications Office
Description: Summarizes findings of a status and trends survey of Chesapeake wetlands

Title: Chesapeake Gold
Format: Booklet
Audience: General
Length: 16 pp
Contact: Chesapeake Bay Foundation
Description: Shows the history, the decline, and potential for restoration of the Chesapeake's great filters, oysters

Title: Chesapeake Horizons
Format: Film and video
Audience: Citizens
Length: 30-minute film and 27-minute video
Contact: Chesapeake Bay Foundation
Description: How two communities have been impacted by the Bay's decline

Title: Chesapeake Quarterly
Format: Newsletter
Audience: General
Length: 16 pp
Contact: Maryland Sea Grant College
Description: Information on marine research, education and outreach

Title: Chesapeake Revisited
Format: Video
Audience: General
Length: 15 minutes
Contact: PA Chesapeake Bay Education Office
Description: Graphically depicts how oxygen depletion and nitrate and phosphorous contamination affect Bay aquatic life

Title: Contaminants and the Chesapeake: Toward a Contaminant-Free Chesapeake Bay, Chesapeake Bay Fact Sheet #1
Format: Fact sheet
Audience: General
Length: 8 pp
Contact: Maryland Sea Grant College
Description: Summarizes problems associated with chemical contaminants in the Bay watershed, encourages citizen involvement

Title: Contaminant Problems and Management of Living Chesapeake Bay Resources
Format: Book
Audience: General
Length: 573 pp ($45)
Contact: Pennsylvania Academy of Science
Description: Discusses Bay ecosystem problems, impacts, and management strategies

Title: Dancing with the Tide: Watermen of the Chesapeake
Format: Book
Audience: General
Length: 272 pp ($24.95)
Contact: Blue Crab Press
Description: A year in the lives of the Chesapeake's commercial fishermen: How they harvest fisheries, impacts on their existence as an important historical subculture of Bay society.

Title: Decision Making: The Chesapeake Bay
Format: Materials
Audience: Teachers of secondary students
Length: Test and three optional slides/videos
Contact: Maryland Sea Grant College
Description: Interdisciplinary environmental education curriculum unit on issues related to the Bay

Title: Ecosystem Trends and Responses: Chesapeake Bay
Format: Fact sheet
Audience: General
Length: 2 pp
Contact: U.S. Geological Survey - Earth Science Information Center
Description: Description of project designed to improve understanding of environmental changes that influence water quality and living resources in the Bay

Title: Education Resource Catalog
Format: Catalog
Audience: General
Length: Approx. 30 pp
Contact: PA Fish and Boat Commission
Description: Catalog of a variety of educational resources available from PA Fish and Boat Commission

Title: Estuary Guide: A Field Guide To Plants and Animals
Format: Booklet
Audience: General
Length: 14 pp
Contact: Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
Description: A useful guide for teaching about Bay plant and animal species

Title: Exotics in the Chesapeake - Alien Rivers: The Threat of Zebra Mussels
Format: Video
Audience: Educators, boaters, general
Length: 9 minutes
Contact: Maryland Sea Grant College
Description: Describes how zebra mussels arrived in the U.S. and details steps that can be taken to avoid their spread into the Chesapeake watershed

Title: Exotics in the Chesapeake: Animals
Format: Fact sheet
Audience: Educators, citizens
Length: 8 pp
Contact: Maryland Sea Grant College
Description: Introduction to exotic animals in the Bay watershed and problems associated with them

Title: Exotics in the Chesapeake: Introduction
Format: Fact sheet
Audience: Educators, citizens
Length: 4 pp
Contact: Maryland Sea Grant College
Description: Provides an introduction to exotic species, and problems associated with them, in the Bay

Title: Exotics in the Chesapeake: Plants
Format: Fact sheet
Audience: Educators, citizens
Length: 8 pp
Contact: Maryland Sea Grant College
Description: Introduction to exotic plants in the Bay watershed and problems associated with them

Title: Fact Sheets On Specific Maryland and Virginia Rivers
Format: Fact sheet
Audience: Citizens
Length: 1 page
Contact: Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay
Description: Brief history and description of pollution problems for selected Bay tributaries

Title: Fish and Wildlife Service Fact Sheets
Format: Fact sheet
Audience: General
Length: Varies
Contact: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Description: A series describing Bay fish and wildlife including pollution related problems

Title: Guidance for Protecting Submerged Aquatic Vegetation
Format: Booklet
Audience: Local and state government officials, citizens
Length: 15 pp
Contact: Chesapeake Bay Program- Communications Office
Description: Focuses on impacts of shallow water dredging and construction activities on SAV and habitats

Title: Identification of Submerged Aquatic Vegetation
Format: Booklet
Audience: General
Length: 15 pp
Contact: PA Chesapeake Bay Education Office
Description: Picture guide to Chesapeake Bay submerged aquatic vegetation

Title: Into The River Into The Bay
Format: Video
Audience: General
Length: 57 minutes
Contact: PA Chesapeake Bay Education Office
Description: Highlights Pennsylvania's connection with the Bay and efforts of agencies and private organizations to help clean and protect the river and the Bay

Title: Issues for the Chesapeake
Format: Materials
Audience: Teachers (secondary or adult)
Length: 24 pp
Contact: Maryland Sea Grant College
Description: A marine education workbook that integrates science and social science

Title: It's Happening Today on the Chesapeake Bay
Format: Video
Audience: Students
Length: 53 minutes
Contact: PA Chesapeake Bay Education Office, Chesapeake Bay Foundation
Description: Games, music, and skits that teach children about the Chesapeake Bay

Title: Just Passing Through

Format: Book
Audience: General
Length: 101 pp
Contact: Blue Crab Press
Description: Poems and photographs of the changing communities in the Chesapeake region

Title: Keystone in the Cleanup
Format: Fact sheet
Audience: General
Length: 2 pp
Contact:
PA Chesapeake Bay Education Office
Description: Introduction to PA Chesapeake Bay Program

Title: Keystone in the Cleanup
Format: Slide and tape sets
Audience: Citizens
Length: 15 minutes
Contact: PA Chesapeake Bay Education Office
Description: Introduction to PA Chesapeake Bay Program; emphasizes agricultural efforts

Title: Land and the Chesapeake Bay
Format: Booklet
Audience: General
Length: 16 pp
Contact: Chesapeake Bay Foundation
Description:
Contains information about how the use of land is affecting and changing the Bay. Includes Bay-wide statistics on population trends, settlement patterns and economics

Title: Life in the Chesapeake Bay
Format: Book
Audience: General
Length: 230 pp
Contact: Chesapeake Bay Foundation
Description: Well-illustrated field guide to Bay plant and animal life

Title: Living on the Edge
Format: Video
Audience: Citizens
Length: 18 minutes
Contact: Chesapeake Bay Foundation
Description: Highlights the rhythm of the Bay region; how our carelessness can disrupt that rhythm

Title: Pennsylvania's Chesapeake Bay
Format: Materials
Audience: Teachers
Length: 40 pp
Contact: PA Chesapeake Bay Education Office
Description: Bay activities (intermediate level)

Title: Pennsylvania's Chesapeake Bay Nutrient Reduction Strategy

Format: Booklet
Audience: General, local governments, agriculture
Length: 43 pp
Contact: PA Department of Environmental Protection - Bureau of Watershed Management
Description: Presents Pennsylvania's strategy to try to achieve the nutrient reduction goal by the year 2000

Title: Protecting the Chesapeake Bay

Format: Fact sheet
Audience: General
Length: 2 pp
Contact: Susquehanna River Basin Commission
Description: Explains the importance of the Susquehanna River to the Chesapeake Bay

Title: The State of the Chesapeake Bay: A report to the citizens of the Chesapeake Bay Region
Format: Booklet
Audience: General, teachers
Length: 60pp
Contact: Chesapeake Bay Program - Communications Office
Description: Describes the health of the Chesapeake Bay, its tributaries, habitats, and the creatures that call the Bay home

Title: Sunup to Sundown: Watermen of the Chesapeake
Format: Book
Audience: General
Length: 224 pp
Contact: Blue Crab Press
Description: A year in the life of Maryland watermen

Title: The Great Chesapeake Bay Challenge: A Day in the Life of the Chesapeake Bay
Format: Video
Audience: General
Length: 48 minutes
Contact: PA Chesapeake Bay Education Office
Description: Explores the challenges involved in restoring the health of the Chesapeake Bay

Title: The Last Waterman
Format: Book
Audience: General
Length: 202 pp
Contact: Chesapeake Bay Foundation
Description: True story of a Chesapeake Waterman struggling to keep a way of life his family has known for 11 generations

Title: The Lord's Oysters
Format: Book
Audience: General
Length: 210 pp
Contact: Chesapeake Bay Foundation
Description: Life of the Chesapeake watermen during the early 20th Century

Title: Toward A Cleaner Chesapeake
Format: Video
Audience: General
Length: 10 minutes
Contact: PA Chesapeake Bay Education Office
Description: Overview of PA's Bay Program with emphasis on its agricultural conservation program; tips for homeowners

Title: Turning the Tide
Format: Book
Audience: General
Length: 321 pp
Contact: Chesapeake Bay Foundation
Description: Explains Bay functions and what can be done to reduce pollution, stop the loss of valuable habitat, and improve fisheries management

Title: Watershed for the Chesapeake
Format: Video
Audience: General
Length: 60 minutes
Contact: Maryland Sea Grant College, PA Chesapeake Bay Education Office
Description: A chronicle of the campaign to restore America's richest estuary

Title: What Can I Do?
Format: Brochure
Audience: General
Length: 4 pp
Contact: Chesapeake Bay Foundation
Description: Practical tips on how citizens can contribute to Bay clean-up efforts

Title: A "Who's Who" in the Chesapeake Bay Program
Format: Directory
Audience: General
Length: 84 pp
Contact: Chesapeake Bay Program - Communications Office
Description: Explains committees and subcommittees including organizational charts and members

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