Related Links

Sources For more information, please contact: Wetlands & Waterways Program, MDE 1800 Washington Blvd. Baltimore, MD 21230 1-800-633-6101

Links to Other Agencies Dealing with Wetlands Issues

Maryland Department of Natural Resources

EPA's Surf your Watershed

EPA Office of Water's Wetlands Homepage

Other Valuable Wetland and Waterway Information Sources

American Wetlands Campaign
May is American Wetlands Month.

WaterSHEDDS
A decision making system for controlling nonpoint source pollution control

NatureServe
Provides information on more than 50,000 plants, animals, and ecological communities of the United States and Canada

Academy of Natural Sciences' Estuarine Research Center

USGS Activities in the Chesapeake Bay Region

Bay Restoration Fund

Chesapeake Bay Program Homepage
The Chesapeake Bay Program is the regional partnership that's been directing and conducting the restoration of the Chesapeake Bay since the signing of the 1983 Chesapeake Bay Agreement

Chesapeake Cleanup Center

MD Department of Natural Resources' Bays and Streams Page

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) downloadable data The Maryland Department of Natural Resources geospatial data download site. Examples of free available data include wetlands, Wetlands of Special State Concern, protected land, digital ortho quarter quads, green infrastructure, SAV, and watersheds.

Coastal Marsh Project, Sponsored by UMD & NASA

Association of State Wetland Managers Homepage
Provides information on upcoming grants, training workshops, wetland research findings and legislative and national news

Maryland's Chesapeake Bay Tributary Stategy Statewide Implementation Plan

A User's Guide to Watershed Planning in Maryland

Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS)
Provides information on Submerged Aquatic Vegetation (SAV)

National Fish and Wildlife Foundation grants:

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