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Shifting baselines in Chesapeake Bay, the immense protein factory -- Why was Chesapeake Bay so productive and how has that productivity changed? -- The spring fishery for shad and river herring was a hectic scramble -- The world's greatest oyster fishery expanded, then crashed -- Diamond-backed terrapins were once pig food, then a gourmet delight, and now a protected species -- Uncontrolled market hunting of waterfowl led to mass slaughter -- Sturgeon, a prehistoric high jumper, fell from memory -- Blue crabs hung on tenaciously -- Have diminished animal abundances remodeled the bay's food webs?

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- The Great Shellfish Bay -- Shelter, Cleaning, and Protection -- Trickle Down: Tributaries -- People and Places -- When Salt Meets Fresh -- Major Tributaries -- In and Around the Bay -- Watershed Wellness -- The Habitat Needs Help -- Chesapeake Conservation -- Glossary -- For More Information -- Index -- Back Cover.

The many streams and rivers that are part of the Chesapeake Bay watershed provide the freshwater that helps make the bay such a unique ecosystem. The brackish waters are home to lots of plants and animals that are a factor in keeping the bay healthy. However, the tributaries of the Chesapeake Bay can also have negative effects on the health of the bay if the water they feed to the bay is polluted. Readers will learn about the interconnectedness of the bay watershed as well as the importance of this estuary's tributaries. Including a map of the key rivers flowing into the Chesapeake Bay, the main content will engage readers with the conservation conversation surrounding the bay in addition to its geography. Vivid photographs and detailed sidebars will further draw readers into the growing region surrounding the Chesapeake Bay

Front Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Part I. The 1600s and 1700s -- New World Tempests: Witches, Hurry-Canes and Legendary Storms -- George Washington's Storm: The Great Chesapeake Bay Hurricane of 1788 -- Baltimore versus Charlestown: The Hurricane that Sealed a Town's Fate -- Part II. The 1800s -- Fire and Nature's Fury during the War of 1812 -- The Great Ice Bridge of 1852 -- Flash Flood on the Patapsco -- Tempting Fate: The Great Gale of 1878 and the Sinking of Express -- Keepers of the Light and Sentinels in the Storm -- Snowbound: The Great Blizzards of 1888 and 1899 -- How Curious: Hail, Lightning and the Heyday of the Maryland Weather Service -- Part III. The 1900s and Beyond -- The Once-in-Five-Hundred-Years Storm: Tropical Storm Agnes -- To Hell and Back Again with Hurricane Hazel -- The Day the Marvel Went Down -- City on the Sand: The Legacy of Storms in Ocean City -- In the Deep Midwinter: Snow, Ice and Tragedy on the Chesapeake -- Isabel Surges into Chesapeake -- Goodnight, Irene -- The Great Derecho of 2012 -- A Perilous Past, a Stormy Future -- Weather Signs and Record Weather Extremes -- Notes on the Sources -- About the Author.

We examine socioecological drivers of nutrient overloading and eutrophication in the Chesapeake Bay associated with poultry production on the Delmarva Peninsula. We use a social metabolic analysis—rooted in a political-economy perspective—that highlights the interchange of matter and energy and the inextricable links within and between social and ecological systems, illuminating the social structural processes contributing to ecological changes. The concentration and consolidation of poultry production through integration, which involves contract farming, and geographic concentration of operations, have been associated with intensified and increased scale of chicken (broiler) production. These processes have had significant effects on waste accumulation, maintenance, and disposal, and this industry has become one of the major contributors of nutrient overloading in the Chesapeake Bay. This study, therefore, specifies social processes that are driving environmental changes between land and sea.

The figure of an old man poling a skiff toward shore against the evening light engaged Susan Brait to learn about Chesapeake Bay, and it is that image which opens this her book on the oystermen of the Bay and the sapping of their traditional life, and even the bounty of the Bay itself, by the demands of American society. With directness and poetic economy Brait takes the reader into the life of the Bay and into the complex relationships that affect oysters and those who make their living from them. Her account weaves easily from the daily work of oystermen to the natural forces that have shaped

The inflow of land-based pollutants has decreased productivity of the Chesapeake Bay. Better land-use management practices can improve the service-providing capacity of the bay. Specific approaches to management of pollutant sources are discussed. Solutions to some institutional, ethical, and legislative issues are presented for action on both the individual and collective level in a series of 15 papers. ; Charles W. Coale, J. Paxton Marshall, Waldon R. Kerns, editors