Saving the Chesapeake.(effort and money needed if Bay's ecology to recover)

E | November 1, 2001| | Copyright

America's Largest Estuary Makes Modest Gains Despite Development

When Captain John Smith entered Chesapeake Bay in 1607, he be-held a natural treasure. Its clear water darkened with the passing of staggering runs of shad, herring and sturgeon. Flights of ducks filled many square miles of sky, shaking small boats with the force of their sound. Oyster banks rose from the seabed, their rugged summits poking out of the water to form tiny islands. "Heaven and earth," Smith wrote, "never agreed better to frame a place for man's habitation."

Four centuries later, ...

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