Discover watershed connections you never knew existed ...
Explore parts of Chesapeake Bay and Puget Sound which includes vast stretches of deep, open waters, shallow bays and inlets, and muddy to sandy to rocky sediments underneath. Travel from the forested uplands down to the estuaries and discover fascinating connections including:
• The Sargasso Sea and catadromous eels and their relationship to endangered mussel communities in the Susquehanna river.
Explore parts of Chesapeake Bay and Puget Sound which includes vast stretches of deep, open waters, shallow bays and inlets, and muddy to sandy to rocky sediments underneath. Travel from the forested uplands down to the estuaries and discover fascinating connections including:
- Forests and anadromous fish species - witness shad and salmon migrate upstream from the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
- Earth’s moon, meteorites, and the Chesapeake Bay.
- Engineering feats and infrastructures built across the river and bay areas, including bridges, hydroelectric dams, vast canal networks, and fish passageways and flood control levees.
- Blue crabs in the Chesapeake, mussels in the Susquehanna River and geoducks in the Puget Sound.
- Native peoples who live in the islands and forests along the river and coastal areas, and their struggle to survive and protect these regions.
- You, the river, its communities,
and the Chesapeake Bay!
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