Chesapeake Bay Science & Education
Browse DNR's Chesapeake Bay web pages to learn more about the ecology of the Chesapeake Bay and how you can help restore the Bay!

Coastal Bays Science
Browse DNR's Coastal Bays web pages to learn more about the ecology of Maryland's coastal bays.

Coastal Bays Program
Maryland DNR works with the Maryland Coastal Bays Program (MCBP) to protect and restore Maryland's Coastal Bays. Part of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's National Estuary Program, the MCBP is a cooperative effort between local, state, federal governments and local citizens that are working together to implement management actions for the protection of the Coastal Bays. You can access the MCBP website at: http://www.mdcoastalbays.org

Coastal States Organization
Since 1970, the Coastal States Organization (CSO) has represented the governors of United States coastal States, Territories, and Commonwealths as an advocate for improved management of the nation's coasts, oceans, and Great Lakes. The nonprofit and nonpartisan association strives to shape and advance a national agenda that enhances the protection of coastal and ocean resources of the Nation and which furthers the vision for the coasts shared by the thirty-five member States, Territories and Commonwealths. You can access the CSO website at: http://www.sso.org/cso

Maryland's Surf Your watershed
The Surf Your Watershed project is a cooperative effort involving the Maryland Departments of the Environment and Natural Resources to "catalog" important environmental, socioeconomic, and programmatic information on a watershed basis. The project provides a database in which natural resources and biological information (including hydrologic, hydraulic, and water quality); bibliographic references; contacts, programs and activity descriptions; and other data can coexist and be easily obtained for watershed management, planning, and natural resource Conservation programs and projects.

Maryland's Tributary Strategies Teams
Maryland's Tributary Teams--comprised of local citizens, farmers, business leaders and government officials appointed by the Governor--are working to keep your local waterways clean and healthy. As you may know, the health of the streams and rivers that flow through your neighborhood directly affect the health of the Chesapeake Bay. By controlling pollution upstream--in the streams and rivers that feed the Chesapeake Bay--Maryland's Tributary Teams are working to make a difference in our neighborhoods, our cities and towns, and the entire Chesapeake Bay watershed.

NOAA - Coastal Zone Management Program
Learn more about Coastal Zone Management at the national level by visiting NOAA's web site.