Chesapeake Bay

Virginia is a place for sightseers, especially in the fall. Thanks to the trees lining the region's forests, the state's skyline is painted warm colors of red, orange, and yellow. But you don't necessarily have to be visiting Virginia's countryside to experience the visual beauty that it has to offer. There are many roads throughout the state that offer scenic views. In fact, more than 2,500 miles of roadways are designated as scenic byways, according to the Virginia Department of…

learn new tricks or techniques, normally dealing with equipment handling while submerged underwater. Occasionally, dive club will make a trip to Lake Rawlings located in Chesapeake to do more complicated dives in the lake. Throughout the school years, dive club hosts many trips, fundraisers, and events (sponsored by the Chesapeake Bay Dive Center). This year, dive club is taking a cruise trip to Nassau, Bahamas to complete up to 10 open water dives off the cruise ship and also dive with sharks.…

controversial proposal since it was proposed on April 2013 by Governor Martin O’Malley. The tax’s purpose is to require local governments to charge a storm-water remediation fee to pay for removing pollutants from rainwater before it reaches the Chesapeake Bay. (Johnson & Wiggins, 2015). This tax law was highly criticized because it would enforce a fee only against a handful of counties and its citizens and not the whole state of Maryland. The general public outcry was due to its picking and…

rates in a stream. Sediments that were eroded at or near Linganore High School end up in the Chesapeake Bay. Sediments eroded from rocks in Linganore Creek and are carried to the Monocacy River. From there, the sediments are taken to the Potomac River. The Potomac River’s water and anything loose in it are dispensed into the Chesapeake Bay. Water transports the material from Linganore to the Chesapeake Bay. Erosion is the process of rock being worn away by the action of water, wind, and other…

As we have discovered, the Blue Catfish is very harmful to our environment. Its the “greatest environmental threats the Chesapeake Bay has ever faced,” said Tim Sughrue, a former waterman and biologist (roanoke). The Blue Catfish represent 75% of the fish biomass and eat up every fish in the Chesapeake (fisheries.noaa). If this continues for any longer, the fish in the Chesapeake will be dead. Thus concluding, native species are evolved to live in a certain area best suitable for them. Over…

you would have done when one was younger. A chesapeake bay retriever (for more active elders) or a rat terrier, would be excellent choices. The ultimate fetching dog, a chesapeake bay retriever can accompany you from small fetching sessions on the beach, to large hikes through the woods. This large sized dog is a member of the retriever, gundog, and sporting breed groups. This breed is not hypoallergenic and usually lives for 10-12 years. Chesapeake bay retriever females 21-24 inches and males…

Essay #1 As the Europeans came to the New World in the 1600s, relationships with Native Americans were unstable in some places and secure in others. In the Chesapeake region, both Virginia and Maryland initially collaborated well with the Native Americans but over time the relationship diminished as wars erupted between the groups. However, in New England the colonists’ connection with the Native Americans varied. During the colonization period, although the Europeans may have been disruptive…

site of two very different colonial experiments in early 17th century Chesapeake and New England. This difference was particularly true of the inhabitants of each colony who would imagine, invent and respond to political authority in very different ways. Both colony’s political structure would emerge as a consequence of its founding ethos, the character of its peoples, and the internal and external pressures it faced. Chesapeake political authority was constructed according to the colony’s…

Stretching a total of about 3,964 miles, the Yangtze River has played a considerable role in the lives of Chinese citizens for thousands of years. Along with serving as a major form of water transportation and trading, Asia’s longest river is considered a key role in China’s agriculture and economic system. Where the river runs through Sandouping, one would find the Three Gorges Dam—the largest, and possibly the most infamous, dam in the world. Even though the Chinese government had intentions…

Howard County and can endanger the lives of people and property. The flood problems in Howard County have been continuing on for decades. Back in the 1970s, storms like Hurricane Floyd and tropical storm Agnes cause massive flooding in the area (Chesapeake bay foundation). To pile on that, snowstorms have also caused flooding to occur. When the snow melts, there is a lot of water, which moves and floods the area. According to the National Climate Data Center, there have been a total of 39…