Turning the Tide: Saving The Chesapeake Bay

In 1991, Island Press published Turning the Tide, a unique and accessible examination of the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem. The book took an in-depth look at the Bay's vital signs to gauge the overall health of its entire ecosystem and to assess what had been done and what remained to be done to clean up the Bay. Much has changed since that book came out, and while success is evident in many areas, the bottom line on the last decade is sobering. How can we ensure that the next decade does not end like the last, with numerous battles won but little progress made?

This new edition of Turning the Tide makes a vital contribution to the effort to restore the Bay. It addresses new developments of the past decade and examines the factors that will have the most significant effects on the health of the Bay in the coming years. With new case studies and significantly updated maps, charts, and graphs, the book builds on the analytical power of ten years of experience to offer a new perspective, along with clear, science-based recommendations for the future.

For all those

List of Figures

xi

Foreword, by William C. Baker

xiii

Preface: Saving the Bay, Failing the Bay: The Last Decade and the Next

xvii

About This Book

xxxv

PART I. The Chesapeake Ecosystem

1

(36)

1. The Bay Connects Us, the Bay Reflects Us

3

(34)

The Small, Skinny Bay

3

(1)

The Great, Green Filter

4

(2)

The Amputated Bay

6

(3)

An Unruly Beast-The Estuary

9

(1)

A Rare Flower-The Geologic Bay

10

(2)

Slosh and Burp-The Wind's Will

12

(2)

The Only Constant Is Change

14

(2)

Invisible Fences

16

(2)

If You Harvest the Bay, Pray for Drought

18

(3)

Avalanche! A Bit of River Goes a Long Way

21

(1)

Productivity-The Bay's True Value

22

(3)

Doing More with Less

25

(2)

Ordering the Bay's House

27

(2)

Oysters Are Much More than Hors D'Oeuvres

29

(2)

The Chesapeake Ecosystem

31

(1)

What the Animals Are Saying

32

(3)

Vicious Cycles in Reverse

35

(2)

PART II. State of the Bay

37

(262)

2. Pollution

43

(108)

Agriculture

43

(26)

Sewage-Real Progress, but Big Tests to Come

69

(15)

Air

84

(10)

Susquehanna-The River That Is the Bay

94

(7)

Sediment-Dirt's Long, Slow Dance

101

(4)

Dredging

105

(4)

Stormwater Pollution

109

(10)

Toxics and Bacteria

119

(15)

Dissolved Oxygen-The Bay's Bottom Line

134

(5)

Oil Spills

139

(4)

Recreational Pollution-Boats

143

(4)

If Fish Made Clean Water Rules

147

(4)

3. Harvests

151

(36)

Lesson of the Rockfish

153

(7)

Managing Fish-The Big Picture

160

(1)

Crabs-A Historic Opportunity Lost

161

(5)

Oysters-Rebuilding, Restoring

166

(6)

Shad-Welcome Home

172

(3)

Management of Other Species

175

(3)

Watermen

178

(2)

Waterfowl

180

(7)

4. Resilience

187

(58)

Forests

189

(11)

Nontidal Wetlands

200

(7)

Edges of the Bay

207

(17)

Bottom of the Bay

224

(15)

Upstream and Down

239

(6)

5. The Ultimate Issue: People

245

(54)

How We Live

249

(34)

How Many of Us

283

(16)

PART III. Lessons and Recommendations

299

(30)

6. Recommendations

301

(28)

What Kind of Bay Do We Want?

303

(6)

Pollution

309

(7)

Harvests

316

(2)

Resilience

318

(4)

The Ultimate Issue: People

322

(2)

Toward an Environmental Ethic

324

(5)

Appendix A: CBF 'S State of the Bay Report

329

(6)

Appendix B: Chesapeake 2000

335

(16)

Appendix C: Chesapeake Bay Timeline

351

(10)

Glossary

361

(4)

References

365

(10)

Acknowledgments

375

(2)

Index

377

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Turning the Tide: Saving The Chesapeake Bay

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