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The Chesapeake Bay Program is a unique regional partnership that directs and conducts conservation actions in the Chesapeake Bay watershed directed at sustainable use and development. It brings together local, state, and federal governments; non-profit organizations; watershed residents; and the region΄s leading academic institutions in a partnership effort for protection, restoration, and application of sustainable management of the Bay. Those involved in the Chesapeake Bay Program have committed to a partnership directed at reducing pollution, restoring habitat, and sustainably management principles. This paper presents the history of this partnership and a description of its organization, identification of sustainable management principles and the Bay Program goals, an assessment of the health of the Bay, and status report on the progress toward sustainable management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
