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A conceptual diagram illustrates the practice of planting or maintaining buffer vegetation along the water's edge.
Buffer Vegetation as a Key Stewardship Behavior
A diagram showing best management practices required to target the numerous sources and delivery pathways of excess nutrient loads.
Targeted Practices Diagram
Woods along the shoreline of Chesapeake Bay.
Woods along the shoreline
Woods along the shoreline of Chesapeake Bay.
Woods along the shoreline
Conceptual diagram illustrating tabulated Best Management Practices (BMPs).
Best Management Practices (BMPs)
Natural fiber logs for sale at a local hardware store in Cambridge MD. These logs are designed to be used in constructing a natural
Fiber logs
Conceptual diagram illustrating a hardened shoreline vs a natural shoreline. The hardened shoreline has concrete rip-rap or a sea wall. It can be very costly and can also interrupt natural shoreline processes and sand movement that can lead to increased erosion downdrift from the structure. A natural shoreline incorporates native vegetation with a buffer strip of sand and/or fiber logs. It filters runoff and traps sediment, actually widening the beach, and providing valuable shoreline habitat for wildlife.
Shoreline erosion control
This section of Pipe Creek is still surrounded by a small forest buffer, although much of the creek is surrounded by farm fields and residential areas. Sandusky, Ohio.
Pipe Creek
This section of Pipe Creek is still surrounded by a small forest buffer, although much of the creek is surrounded by farm fields and residential areas. Sandusky, Ohio.
Pipe Creek
Riparian Buffer on Swan Creek
Riparian Buffer
housing development amongst fields
Development amonst fields
One approach to the development of better coastal and marine policy and management is the concept of marine managed areas (MMAs). A MMA is an area of ocean, or combination of land and ocean, where human activities are managed toward common goals. MMAs are a form of ecosystem-based management, where all elements of a particular system are considered together. When the principles of a marine managed area are fully implemented, the resulting benefits to both the environment and humans can be optimized.
Marine managed areas
Aerial view of tidal marsh, creek, forest and farmlands of Chesapeake Bay, Maryland.
winter flyover
Looking south at Church Neck
Agriculture on Church Neck
Agriculture on Occohannock Neck, surrounding portions of Nassawadox Creek
Agriculture on Occohannock Neck
Looking east at Church Neck and Great Neck, with Hungars Creek. Seagrass can be seen in Chesapeake Bay in the foreground.
Church Neck
A creek, flanked by marsh and riparian buffers, wends its way off the Wicomico River, portions of which is surrounded by marsh.
Creek off the Wicomico River
A creek buffered by a strip of wetlands and trees snakes off the Wicomico River, which also has areas of marsh and buffers of trees.
Creek off the Wicomico River
Looking east at Church Neck and Great Neck, with Hungars Creek. Seagrass can be seen in Chesapeake Bay in the foreground.
Farms at Church Neck
Fields in different stages of growth along the Wicomico River. Forest and a small creek sandwich this farm.
Fields along Wicomico River
Looking south at Church Neck and Great Neck, with Hungars Creek to the east. Seagrass can be seen in Chesapeake Bay in the foreground.
Hungars Creek
Row crops grow on farms on the northern edge of Church Neck, at Nassawadox Creek.
Nassawadox Creek
Looking east at islands in the Nassawadox Creek. Warehouse Creek (middle) and Church Creek (right) split off to the east.
Nassawadox Creek
Looking east at farms on Old Town Neck. Chesapeake Bay is in the foreground and Ramshorn Bay, a coastal lagoon, is in the background.
Old Town Neck
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