Environmental+Impact+on+the+Bay

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1. Why have so many people settled around the Chesapeake Bay? What needs does the bay meet? The people who settle in the bay area come for the fresh air ,the mass amount of water and the rare foods like crabs. There is also a lot of fish in the area and oysters. The boat rides around the bay also atract tourists. FOR THIS QUESTION, YOU HAVE TO THINK A BIT - YOU WON'T FIND IT SPELLED OUT FOR YOU. IF YOU WERE A SETTLER AT THE TIME THE INDIANS AND ENGLISH SETTLED THERE, WHAT WOULD MAKE THE BAY ARE ATTRACTIVE TO YOU? There are many reasons why people settle in the chesapeake bay watershed, here are some of them. One of the reasones is all the types of food there. One of the foods people love is the Blue Crab as it is considered a delicacy to the people who live there. Another food is fish as there are many in the area. The final big food atraction is oysters as the are plentiful and delcios and people in the area rejoyce if they get there hands on them. The second atraction that draws people to the chesapeake bay area is all the historic land. An example of that land is historic st.mary's city for all the house outline in the old towns that the archeolgists rebuilt. Another historic thing is the bay and the crater that caused it, most people like this because it forms an image in there mind of how the bay was created. The third historic thing is the tabbaco plantations because they seem hard to work in until you realize that was easy work for them at the time. Yet another reason people com to the bay is for the tourist attractions. In example the boat rides draw many tourists in. Another real touristy thing is the fishing, crabbing, and the oystering. The final touristy thing is the aqautic life in the bay as it interests most people. That is why most people settle in the Chesapeake bay watershed

Too many nutrients have caused the bays poor health and have seriously affected the bays most precous animals. These animals include the blue crab, and many under water bay grasses and many other under water life.There are two nutrients that are the main cause of the bays poor health nitrogen and phosphorus. Not only have they affected under water life but have also affected migratory bird habitats and exstensive vegitated tidal wetlands.Many different organations have tried to clean up polluted marshes, blackwater is the main organasation leading the marsh clean up. Many people and orginazations have been helping clean up major marshes around the chesapeake bay. Alot of polutoin around the area may cause many wild life to be destroid and the watershed to be very poor in draining with the sewage gunking it up.

2. How have people impacted the Chesapeake Bay? (BE SPECIFIC - WHAT THINGS WERE DONE, AND WHAT EFFECT DID IT HAVE ON THE BAY?) too many nutrients in local rivers, streams and the Bay, they create conditions that are harmful [|blue crabs], [|bay grasses] other underwater life. Excess amounts [|nitrogen] and [|phosphorus], two types of nutrients, the main cause of Bay's poor health. /habitat concern less migratory bird habittat wildlife refuges have extensive vegetated tidal wetlands thus low elevations risk from sea level rise. Wildlife Refuges all face serious loss of vegetated wetlands. Blackwater is the focus of a major marsh restoration effort

3. Because people have negatively impacted the Bay, how has that changed the impact the Bay has on people? they used to be abel to. phosphate detergent ban 1985. less blue crab harvesting 2000 just 20 .2 pounds.DDt PBCs banned years ago.phosphorus ban in garden suplises 2009. the affect DDT had on the enviorment were the death of many birds including the brown pelican.THINK ABOUT WHAT PEOPLE CAN'T DO THAT THEY COULD HAVE EARLIER, OR THINGS THEY HAVE TO DO NOW THAT THEY DIDN'T "BACK THEN." since

notes; 58 percent of watershed is still forest, Nutrients are chemicals that plants and animals need grow survive,The remaining 42 percent of the watershed's land developed for other uses, such as:
 * [|Agriculture] (22 percent)
 * [|Urban and suburban lands] (9 percent) , chemicals DDT [|PCBs] have banned from production years,