The new Very High-Resolution Land Cover and Land Use Data covers an area of 99,000 square miles, encompassing 206 counties that intersect or are adjacent to the Chesapeake Bay watershed, seen above. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay program with aerial support from Southwings)
Excellent land use data. Having been 16 years with CBPO, we struggled to get this detail for (now 38 years) I do have no idea how we can use it to stop or slow development that has simply continued from my time, which has added over a million people to the basin. Even "wise" or "Sustainable" development adds nails to the Chesapeake's potential coffin.
I still maintain a data base where I live on a Bay Tribitary after more than four decades, and regrettably it shows decline rather than rejuvenation. I commend you people carrying on traditions that Rich Batiuk and I espoused from our earliest days at the Program..
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Excellent land use data. Having been 16 years with CBPO, we struggled to get this detail for (now 38 years) I do have no idea how we can use it to stop or slow development that has simply continued from my time, which has added over a million people to the basin. Even "wise" or "Sustainable" development adds nails to the Chesapeake's potential coffin.
I still maintain a data base where I live on a Bay Tribitary after more than four decades, and regrettably it shows decline rather than rejuvenation. I commend you people carrying on traditions that Rich Batiuk and I espoused from our earliest days at the Program..
Thank you!
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