Getting the Most Bang for your Tree

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Getting the Most Bang for your Tree (or clam or
scallop or mussel) Integrating Restoration and
Policy Agendas to Affect Environmental
Change Stephanie Reynolds and Bill
Goldsborough Chesapeake Bay Foundation
Presented by Tommy Leggett Chesapeake Bay
Foundation
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• Oyster Planting Event
• CBFs Oyster Restoration Center
• Speaker Busch (MD state) interested
• One morning on board for an oyster planting

• CBF followed up with specific requests for
  Chesapeake oyster restoration Oyster Solutions

• Bills passed the following session
• 250,000 for artificial reef construction
• 9 m for expanded hatchery production
• Creation of the Oyster Advisory Commission (OAC)
• Increased enforcement (poaching)

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• Maryland Dairy Farm project
• Stream bank fencing/ tree planting project in
  Congressman Bartletts (R-MD) district
• 80 volunteers

• 30 volunteers sent the letters urging him to
  support Chesapeake Bay in
• Farm Bill

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• West Virginia Project
• CBF does one project in WVa/ year (minor partner)

• Legislative agenda
• Get in the Federal Farm bill for the
  Chesapeake

• Sen. Rockefeller (D-Wva) asked for 3 letters of
  support

• CBF worked with restoration partners in WVa to
  get 9 letters

• Rockefeller signed on as a co-sponsor

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West Virginia Project
Successful Formula Restoration partners
clear policy agenda asking partners to act on
that agenda
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Hands-on restoration events with no policy agenda
Lots of capital, but no way to spend it
Restoration Events Policy Agenda