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Turning the Tide

Saving the Chesapeake Bay

Turning the Tide
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Tom Horton; Chesapeake Bay Foundation

424 pages | 6 x 9
In 1991, Island Press published Turning the Tide, a unique and accessible examination of the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem. The book took an indepth 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.
 
This new edition of Turning the Tide 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 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 who want to know not only how much must be done to save the Bay but what they can do and how they can make a difference, Turning the Tide is an essential source of information.

List of Figures

Foreword by William C. Baker

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

About This Book

 

Part I. The Chesapeake Ecosystem

The Bay Connects Us, the Bay Reflects Us 

The Small, Skinny Bay 

The Great, Green Filter 

The Amputated Bay 

An Unruly Beast—The Estuary

A Rare Flower—The Geologic Bay 

Slosh and Burp—The Wind’s Will 

The Only Constant Is Change

Invisible Fences 

If You Harvest the Bay, Pray for Drought

Avalanche! A Bit of River Goes a Long Way 

Productivity—The Bay’s True Value 

Doing More with Less 

Ordering the Bay’s House

Oysters Are Much More than Hors D’Oeuvres

The Chesapeake Ecosystem

What the Animals Are Saying

Vicious Cycles in Reverse 
 

Part II. State of the Bay  

1. Pollution

Agriculture 

Sewage—Real Progress, but Big Tests to Come 

Air 

Susquehanna—The River That Is the Bay 

Sediment—Dirt’s Long, Slow Dance 

Dredging 

Stormwater Pollution 

Toxics and Bacteria 

Dissolved Oxygen—The Bay’s Bottom Line 

Oil Spills 

Recreational Pollution—Boats 

If Fish Made Clean Water Rules 

 

2. Harvests 

Lesson of the Rockfish 

Managing Fish—The Big Picture

Crabs—A Historic Opportunity Lost

Oysters—Rebuilding, Restoring 

Shad—Welcome Home

Management of Other Species

Watermen

Waterfowl

 

3. Resilience

Forests

Nontidal Wetlands

Edges of the Bay

Bottom of the Bay

Upstream and Down

 

4. The Ultimate Issue: People

How We Live

How Many of Us

 

Part III. Lessons and Recommendations

Recommendations

What Kind of Bay Do We Want? 

Pollution 

Harvests 

Resilience

The Ultimate Issue: People 

Toward an Environmental Ethic 

 

Appendix A: CBF’s State of the Bay Report

Appendix B: Chesapeake 2000 

Appendix C: Chesapeake Bay Timeline 

Glossary 

References

Acknowledgments

Index 

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Ecosystem Science & Management

Oceans

Water

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