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The Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay is a regional nonprofit organization that builds and fosters partnerships for the restoration of the Bay and its rivers. We are proud to sustain a regional reputation as a facilitator of Bay issues and a source of objective, in-depth information on the Bay restoration. The Alliance does not lobby or litigate, but brings together diverse interests in search ...

General Collections and Rare Book and Special Collections Division Library of Congress Search by Keyword | Browse by Subject Index | Author Index | Title List The Capital and the Bay: Narratives of Washington and the Chesapeake Bay Region, ca. 1600-1925 comprises 139 books selected from the Library of Congress's General Collections and two books from its Rare Book and Special Collections ...

Like the Japanese shore crab pictured above, non-native or so-called exotic species are among the more insidious and confusing threats to the health of our coastal ecosystems. Plants and animals introduced accidentally or even deliberately can cause unexpected harm - introduced plants like hydrilla or Phragmites can displace native plants, and the green crab, an invader from the Baltic Sea, ...