Ways to Help!


The Chesapeake is a wonderful resource. So what can you do to help keep it that way? There are many different things that you can do to help preserve and maintain the Chesapeake Bay. With more than 15 million people living within the Chesapeake watershed -- humans cause a lot of damage, but they can do a lot to help, too.

 

For some suggestions about simple things that you can do in everyday life that will help the bay, check out

http://www.chesapeakebay.net/involved.htm

 

If you are looking for volunteer activities related to the bay, become a BaySaver and join up with others working to help the bay.

http://www.cbf.org/site/PageServer?pagename=action_volunteer_BaySavers

 

Dog Poop?

Buy Milk?

Collect Acorns?

Find out what these things have to do with helping the Chesapeake Bay.

Read the following interesting articles about helping out.

In April, 2600 volunteers in Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia cleaned up 70 tons of trash. It was raining, but volunteers came out for this important cause.

 Read this article!

 

YUCK! Don’t let your dog do that…not in the Bay.  Read this for helpful suggestions.

 

Builders in Pennsylvania are coming up with guidelines to make new developments bay-friendly. That is, they try to find ways to use design principles that will create development with the least negative impact on the Bay.

 Read this article!

 

 

Learning about the Bay can help the bay. Children, it seems are interested in the environment. The more you learn, the more you care. Look at this article that surveyed kids: Look at the article!

 

Buy milk to save the bay!!! Chesapeake Milk purchases raise funds to aid and educate farmers about reducing pollution of our waterways.

 Click Here! (to find out more)

 

What does your green backyard have to do with the bay? The fertilizers you use will make it into the water that drains into the Bay. Here are things that you can do to minimize fertilizer use:

Find out now!

 

Collect acorns to help the bay? Read this Winchester Star article about planting Oak trees along streams that feed into the bay.

Read it!