CHESAPEAKE BAY TRUST ANNUAL REPORT FY 2002

Working to promote public awareness and participation in the restoration and protection

of the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries LETTER FROM THE CHAIRMAN

Dear Friends of the Chesapeake Bay,

The Chesapeake Bay Trust entered its seventeenth year with high expectations, significant objectives, and an unwavering commitment to involve the citizens of Maryland in the restoration and protection of the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries.

With the support and generosity of Marylanders and our many partners, we are pleased to report that the Tr ust exceeded its grant giving goals by providing more resources and involving more citizens in 2002 than any time in our history. In fact, the Trust approved more than $1.2 million in grants and involved thousands of Maryland school children and other volunteers in towns, cities, and counties throughout the State. Moreover, contributions by Marylanders were well allocated, with 90 percent of our revenue directly funding programs that benefit the Bay restoration and protection effort.

This year we helped advance our mission of promoting public awareness and participation in the restoration and protection of the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries by supporting creative and inspired activities.

•At Urbana High School in Frederick, a small Trust grant supported the purchase of aquaculture equipment so that students could study the effects of nutrients on important Bay grasses.

•With the Trust’s support, millions of oysters were restored in the Bay’s rivers and thousands of trees were planted along its streams by leading environmental and civic organizations, and public agencies.

•In Montgomery County, Forest Oak Middle School received funding for field trips, planting materials, and water quality monitoring equipment to support the school’s commitment of using the Bay and its rivers as a tool for better learning.

The following pages include hundreds of other examples of projects that have been undertaken to benefit the Bay.

The Board of Trustees and the staff are inspired daily by the citizens of Maryland who translate their concern for the Bay and its rivers into on-the-ground actions that help restore and protect it.

We offer our sincere appreciation to all who have contributed to the success of the Trust’s mission. With your continued support and with the dedication of our Board, partners, and staff, the Trust will strive to better protect and restore Maryland’s natural treasure — the Chesapeake Bay.

Sincerely,

Martin H. Poretsky Chairman Board of Trustees

“Treasure the Chesapeake”

ORIGIN OF THE TRUST

he Chesapeake Bay Trust is a nonprofit Although established as an instrument of the State, organization created by the General Assembly the Trust operates with independent financial T in 1985 to promote public awareness of and and policy making status. It is not subject to the participation in the restoration and protection of the legislative appropriation process and receives no Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries. To accomplish annual or special appropriations. Through its its mission, the Trust receives financial contributions grantmaking programs, the Trust seeks to encourage from the general public and the private sector, and private citizens and the business community to join distributes those contributions in the form of financial as partners with government in the task of restoring support grants to Bay-related programs. Recipients the nation’s largest estuary. include nonprofit organizations, civic and community groups, schools, and public agencies. The Trust is governed by a 19-member Board of Tr ustees including five ex officio positions consisting of the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the House, and leaders of the Departments of Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment. The remaining 14 members, who are appointed by the Governor for staggered four-year terms, represent business, education, and conservation interests; local government; and the general public.

Volunteers are helping in the effort to restore the Bay’s oyster population. FRONT COVER PHOTO CREDIT: STEVE DELANEY, U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

4 ANNUAL REPORT FY 2002 BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Martin H. Poretsky Honorable TRUSTEE EMERITUS President Guy Guzzone Poretsky Building Group Councilman Honorable (Chair) Howard County Council Harry R. Hughes Former Governor of Maryland Midgett S. Parker, Jr., Esq. Kim S. Haddow Partner President Linowes & Blocher, LLP Haddow Communications STAFF (Vice Chair) Gary W. Michael David J. O’Neill Gary Heath President Executive Director Director of Assessment, The Michael Companies, Inc. Division of Instruction Melanie M. Teems Maryland State Department William B. Moulden Assistant Director of Education Teacher (Secretary) Samuel Ogle Science, Kerri M. Bentkowski Math and Technology Grants Manager Robert G. Hoyt Magnet School Founding Partner Jeff Muller EcoLogix Group David M. Pittenger Director of Marketing (Treasurer) Executive Director and Public Relations National Aquarium Torrey C. Brown, M.D. in Baltimore Michelle A. Powell President Grants Administrator Creative Environmental Royden N. Powell, III Solutions, Inc. Assistant Secretary Maryland Department Honorable of Agriculture John L. Brunner Mayor JoAnn M. Roberts Town of University Park Supervisor of Elementary Instruction and Honorable Environmental Education C. Richard D’Amato Calvert County Maryland House Public Schools of Delegates Carl O. Snowden Robert E. Denton Intergovernmental President and CEO Relations Officer Constellation Nuclear Office of the County Executive Group, LLC Anne Arundel County

Honorable Arthur Dorman Maryland State Senate

Glenn C. Etelson, Esq. Shulman, Rogers, Gandal, Pordy & Ecker, P.A.

Denise Ferguson-Southard Assistant Secretary Maryland Department of the Environment

Frances H. Flanigan Consultant

Students prepare to plant Bay grasses.

ANNUAL REPORT FY 2002 5 YEAR IN REVIEW 2002

ith the support of our partners and the Projects of all sizes were awarded grants in towns, generosity of the citizens of Maryland, cities, and counties throughout the state. For example, W 2002 was a milestone year for the grants supported the creation of schoolyard habitats Chesapeake Bay Trust. For the first time, the Trust in Baltimore City, the development of tidal marsh- surpassed the $1 million mark in giving by providing lands on the Severn River near Annapolis, an oyster hundreds of grants to schools, civic associations, restoration project on the Nanticoke River in environmental groups, and federal, state, and local Dorchester County, and water quality monitoring governments. With this support, thousands of in Allegany County. Marylanders participated in the restoration and protection of the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries. GRANT ACTIVITY ON THE RISE The Trust evaluated nearly 600 grant applications this year, of which the Board of Trustees selected 505 for awards. An astounding 85 percent of the applications submitted were funded for a total of $1.2 million in giving. The average grant amount awarded by the Trust was $2,400, although awards were made for grants under $100 and for grants of more than $40,000. With the addition of this year’s $1.2 million in funding, the Trust has awarded more than $11.6 million in grants since 1985.

In addition to providing greater amounts of funding in 2002, the Trust also created greater flexibility in its grant programs. The Board of Trustees increased the amount of funding available to applicants through the Trust’s Ongoing Grants Program from $1,000 to $2,000. Now, grant applications can be submitted anytime for amounts up to $2,000, and the applicant will receive a decision within 3-to-4 weeks.

This was also the inaugural year of the Pioneer Grants Program. The program, which was established by the Board of Trustees, helps support innovative, cutting-edge approaches that increase Bay awareness and enhance restoration and protection initiatives.

People throughout Maryland are volunteering their time to help restore and protect the Bay.

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SUPPORTING MEANINGFUL BAY EXPERIENCES As part of an ongoing commitment to engage students in meaningful Bay experiences, and to support the Chesapeake 2000 Agreement, the Trust contributed more than $550,000 to involve students in Bay education, field trips, and hands-on restoration and protection projects that benefit the Bay.

Funding supported a broad array of activities such as, growing submerged aquatic vegetation in classrooms in Harford County, stream analysis and restoration projects in Howard County, and Bay field trips for students throughout the state to experience first hand the Bay’s ecology. These activities directly involved students in the restoration and protection effort, while increasing their knowledge of and appreciation for the Chesapeake.

ELLEN FRAITES WAGNER AWARD PRESENTED TO LIFETIME BAY ADVOCATE The Trust was very proud to present the 2002 Ellen

Fraites Wagner Award to Ilia J. Fehrer — a lifetime Ellen Fraites Wagner Award winner, Ilia J. Fehrer, with Chesapeake advocate for the protection and restoration of the Bay Trust Chairman of the Board Martin Poretsky. waterways and wilderness areas of the Chesapeake Bay and the Coastal Bays. The Trust’s annual The Trust received more than $550,000 from award is given to a Maryland citizen in recognition voluntary donations by Maryland taxpayers to the of outstanding volunteer contributions to the Chesapeake Bay and Wildlife Fund via the State Chesapeake Bay. The award is named in honor income tax check-off. The total contribution made of Governor Harry Hughes’ staff member who to the Fund was $1.1 million, which is split equally developed the idea for the Chesapeake Bay Trust. between the Chesapeake Bay Trust and the Maryland Department of Natural Resources. This year, taxpayers GENEROUS CONTRIBUTIONS DRIVE contributed more than any year since 1995. TRUST PROGRAMS The commitment of the citizens of Maryland to The Trust was also the fortunate recipient of proceeds the Chesapeake Bay is steadfast. This year, the from several benefit events. Tr ust received nearly $1.2 million in donations from concerned citizens. The popular “Treasure the The Trust remains grateful for the generosity of Chesapeake” commemorative license plate raised the many concerned citizens who have supported nearly $570,000 of that total. Since 1991, revenue these initiatives and to all who have contributed to from Bay license plate sales has climbed to more than the success of the organization’s efforts throughout $10.3 million and is one of the most successful the year. license plate programs in the nation.

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STATEWIDE Marine Trades Association Motor Vehicle University of Maryland of Maryland Administration, VEIP For the Bay-Wise Landscape Alice Ferguson Foundation For boat-cover shrinkwrap For BayScape demonstration Management Program with For the annual Potomac River recycling at eight marinas. plantings at VEIP locations Master Gardener volunteers Watershed Cleanup. $1,825 by volunteers. for reduction of negative $19,500 $5,700 environmental impacts from Maryland Association for the current management of Chesapeake Bay Foundation Environmental and Outdoor Oyster Recovery Partnership lawns and green space. For Bay Grasses in Classes Education For volunteer coordination to $41,800 program expansion to 300 For the annual statewide increase oyster restoration efforts. teachers in new schools and MAEOE environmental $25,000 eight planting sites in Maryland. educators’ conference. ALLEGANY $29,222 $5,000 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Chesapeake Bay Allegany High School Chesapeake Bay Foundation Maryland Department Field Office For a field trip to Port For schoolyard restoration of Natural Resources, For teacher training in Isobel with Chesapeake protocols and supplemental Watershed Restoration schoolyard habitat techniques Bay Foundation. materials, signage for rain Division with follow-up schoolyard $935 gardens, and rain garden For printing Streams of habitat restoration projects. demonstration plantings Maryland–Take a Closer Look. $9,000 Beall High School with the Student BaySavers $2,730 For monitoring soil and Runoff Reduction Program. U.S. National Park Service water quality along Matthew $24,500 Maryland State Department For Plant Invaders of Run, Sand Spring Run, Neff of Education Mid-Atlantic Natural Areas, Run, and Georges Creek. Living Classrooms For teacher trainings as a a field guide of invasive $976 Foundation follow-up to the annual Youth plant species to identify For wetlands restoration, Environmental Summit. and promote control. Center for Career and submerged aquatic vegetation, $6,000 $1,000 Technical Education and tree plantings with 1,400 For a canoe field trip at students from over 25 schools Rocky Gap State Park with with the Working for Wetlands Chesapeake Bay Foundation. project. $113 $22,855 Fort Hill High School For field trips at Rocky Gap State Park with Chesapeake Bay Foundation and water quality monitoring at Monroe Run Hiking Trail. $506

Rocky Gap Lodge and Golf Resort For plants, planting materials, water quality monitoring equipment, and transportation costs. $3,980

Westernport Elementary School For a field trip on the Dee of St. Mary’s, to Southern Maryland and Rocky Gap State Park as part of the From the Mountains to the Bay annual exchange program with Beach Elementary School. $1,865

Trust-funded plantings improve water quality and enhance vital habitat.

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ANNE ARUNDEL Chesapeake Senior High School Alliance for Community For Bay Grasses in Classes Education planting at Piney Run Park. For a handbook on land $200 stewardship for Glebe Creek watershed residents. Clay Street Computer $5,450 Learning Center For Bay studies program, water Annapolis Middle School quality monitoring materials, For Bay Grasses in Classes oyster gardening workshop, and planting at Corsica River a field trip with Chesapeake in Centreville. Bay Foundation for Clay Street $440 community students. $10,402 Annapolis Youth Services Bureau Corkran Middle School For a field trip to Clagett For Bay Grasses in Classes Farm and storm drain planting at Rocky Point stenciling supplies. The blue heron remains a symbol of hope and determination Park and field trips with $838 for the Bay. Chesapeake Bay Foundation. $480 Anne Arundel County Boy Scout Troop 855 Central Middle School Public Schools For forest buffer planting at For field trips with Maryland Crofton Middle School For teacher training for Anne St. Andrews by the Bay Church Canoe Rig, to Clagett Farm, For a schoolyard rain garden Arundel County teachers in as an Eagle Scout project. and on the Snow Goose with planting. land use impacts on the Bay $894 Chesapeake Bay Foundation. $977 and service learning projects. $695 $1,890 Broadneck Elementary Cub Scout Pack 688, Den 8 School Central Middle School For riparian buffer planting Anne Arundel County For a schoolyard planting For a field trip to Patuxent at Kinder Farm Park. Public Schools by students with Project National Wildlife Visitors $310 For Chesapeake Choices and Native Plant. Center and a Bay Grasses in Challenges teacher training for $1,000 Classes planting at Patuxent Davidsonville Elementary Anne Arundel County teachers. River Park. School $1,260 Broadneck High School $350 For a field trip with Chesapeake For water quality Bay Foundation and oyster Arlington Echo Outdoor monitoring equipment. Chesapeake Bay Foundation monitoring supplies. Education Center $2,028 For tree buffer plantings $383 For shoreline stabilization and at public access sites. tidal marshlands creation. Broadneck High School $10,000 Edgewater Elementary $26,322 For a field trip to Arlington School Echo Outdoor Education Center Chesapeake Bay Middle For a field trip to Carrie Arlington Echo Outdoor and water quality smonitoring School Weedon Science Center for Education Center equipment for Magothy and For Bay Grasses in Classes a horseshoe crab program. For rain barrel construction Severn River Middle Schools. planting at Rocky Point Park. $250 for stormwater management $1,521 $220 at schools and outdoor Folger McKinsey Elementary education facilities. Broadneck High School Chesapeake Children’s School $992 For Bay Grasses in Classes Museum For field trips with Living plantings at Piney Run Park For a BayScape planting Classrooms Foundation. Arundel Middle School and in the Corsica River. on museum grounds along $1,000 For Bay Grasses in Classes $640 Spa Creek by scout groups, planting at Patuxent River students, visitors, and Friends of Jug Bay Park. Cape St. Claire Improvement volunteers. For restoration and protection $280 Association $998 of native wild rice along the For shoreline preparation Patuxent River by students Benfield Elementary School by volunteers and Maryland Chesapeake Senior and volunteers. For Bay Grasses in Classes Conservation Corps members for High School $6,990 planting at Jug Bay. restoration along the Magothy For aquaculture supplies for $543 River. horseshoe crab raise and release. $580 $148

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Magothy River Association Meadow Run Property For oyster monitoring and Owners Association, Inc. URBAN SCHOOL TRANSFORMED INTO tagging at Chest Neck Point For a wetland buffer planting. BAY SCHOOLYARD MODEL and Rock Point reefs with U.S. $911 Naval Academy midshipmen. $601 North County High School With a grant of more than $10,000 to the Parks For Bay Grasses in Classes Magothy River Association planting at Rocky Point Park. and People Foundation, the Chesapeake Bay Trust For a map identifying the $288 is helping to transform an urban schoolyard into named streams of the Magothy a model for Bay friendly schools. For years, River watershed. Severn River Association Franklin Square Elementary, located in the heart $2,150 For a study to identify of Baltimore City, was surrounded by a barren reforestation sites in the Magothy River Association Severn River watershed landscape of asphalt. Not only was the schoolyard For water quality monitoring and coordinate landowner detrimental to the environment, it was also a poor and the State of the Magothy participation. setting for children to learn and play. report. $995 $1,451 The Parks and People Foundation and other project Severn River Association partners set out to change that environment by Magothy River Middle For volunteer plantings at removing two acres of asphalt from the schoolyard, School Hidden Pond as part of the and replacing it with native vegetation planted by For Bay Grasses in Classes Brewers Creek project. planting at Marshyhope $20,370 students and community volunteers. The more Park in Federalsburg. environmentally-sensitive site, which was designed $600 Severn River Land Trust, Inc. by the Franklin Square students, will help reduce For the conservation easement water pollution and provide needed community Manhattan Beach Civic edition of the Gems newsletter. greenspace. The schoolyard will also serve as an Association $975 For a rain garden demonstration outdoor classroom where students will study plant planting at Manhattan Beach Severn River Middle School and animal life. Club House. For a schoolyard habitat $826 planting. Partners in the project included Parks and People $237 Foundation, Franklin Square Elementary, Baltimore Marley Elementary School City Department of Public Works, Baltimore City For Bay Grasses in Classes Sherwood Forest Boys and Recreation and Parks, the Chesapeake Bay Trust, planting at Piney Run Park. Girls Club the Bon Secours Foundation, and others. $290 For a field trip on the Dee of St. Mary’s. Marley Middle School $1,900 For a field trip with Chesapeake Ft. George Meade Partners Lindale Middle School Bay Foundation to release oysters. Shipley’s Choice Elementary In Education, Kimbrough For Bay Grasses in Classes $185 School Ambulatory Care Center planting at Rocky Point Park in For rain barrels, an Atlantic For tree planting by Fort Meade Back River. Maryland Department of White Cedar grow-out station, students and military volunteers. $530 Natural Resources Forest and a bog for an outdoor $435 Service, Tree-Mendous classroom. Londontowne Property Maryland $8,150 Genesis Christian Academy Owners Association For a stream buffer habitat For field trips on the Nathan For a wildflower meadow planting along the Cattail Shipley’s Choice Elementary of Dorchester, to the Maritime and no-mow zone planting Creek Natural Area and the School Museum in St. Michael’s, and on community property. Baltimore Annapolis Trail. For a schoolyard bog to the Calvert Marine Museum $600 $1,000 stabilization planting. for Bay studies. $980 $750 Magothy River Association Maryland Environmental For oyster gardening and Trust South River Federation Genesis Christian Academy reef restoration. For a seminar for Anne Arundel For oyster reefs in Selby For a tree buffer planting along $13,300 County land trusts to coordinate Bay and Duvall Creek, buffer Rockhold Creek. cost-effective land preservation. management in London Towne, $623 Magothy River Association $550 and a community awareness For plantings along the program in Bay-friendly land Girl Scout Troop 1472 Magothy River. Maryland Hall for the stewardship. For a BayScape at Kinder Farm $940 Creative Arts $46,225 Park. For BayScape plantings. $333 $5,000

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South River Federation The Key School The Summit School Trail Blazers Natural For an oyster garden in Harness For BayScapes, rain barrels, For a field trip on the Schooner Resource 4-H Club Creek at Quiet Waters Park. and rain garden plantings on Sultana and an erosion control For a demonstration BayScape $950 school grounds. planting on school grounds. at Anne Arundel County $3,762 $505 Fairgrounds with Master Southern Middle School Gardeners. For a field trip with Chesapeake The Summit School Tracey’s Elementary School $461 Bay Foundation to plant oysters For a field trip with Living For an erosion control rain in the Patuxent River. Classrooms Foundation and garden planting. U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary $120 for erosion control planting $907 Flotilla 15-2 on school grounds. For a fuel recovery demonstra- Southern Senior High $571 tion for boaters to reduce spills. School $500 For Bay Grasses in Classes planting at Patuxent River Park. $428 OYSTER RECOVERY ON THE NANTICOKE St. Anne’s Day School For Bay Grasses in Classes The Nanticoke Watershed Alliance is a non-profit environmental consortium of 34 planting at Rocky Point Park. diverse organizations that work to conserve the Nanticoke River Watershed. With a $400 $20,000 grant from the Trust, technical assistance of the Oyster Recovery Partnership, The Arc of Anne Arundel and the help of a team of volunteers, the Alliance has successfully expanded a County, Inc. one-acre oyster sanctuary by introducing four million oysters and 2,500 bushels of For plantings in the new shell. This effort has created a solid, self-sustaining structure that can greatly MaryLandscapes Sensory aid natural oyster propagation in the area, improve water quality, and support other Garden to accommodate bay critters. disabled individuals. $934 Other partners in the project included Maryland DNR Shellfish Division, Maryland DNR Lower Eastern Shore Tributary Team, University of Maryland Center for The Harbour School For a field trip to Fox Environmental Science (Horn Point Laboratory), the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Island with Chesapeake the Maryland Waterman’s Association, and local watermen. Bay Foundation. $408

The Key School For field trips to Smith and Fox Islands and Port Isobel with Chesapeake Bay Foundation, and a schoolyard habitat planting. $2,370

The Key School For a marsh grass planting at Wye Island. $1,500

The Key School For boardwalk repairs and replacement at Elms Beach Environmental Center by students and parent volunteers. $1,000

The Key School For Bay Grasses in Classes planting at Rocky Point Park in Back River. $400 Volunteers shovel oysters to help expand oyster beds with new shell.

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Ulmstead Estates University of Maryland, Baltimore City Department Herring Run Watershed Club/Ulmstead Club, Inc. Natural Resources of Recreation and Parks Association For streamside restoration Management For the Bringing the Bay to For tree planting at Biddison and buffer plantings along CAPSTONE Class our Backyard streambank Run with the Tributary Strategy a Magothy River stream. For reef ball materials for an restoration and riparian buffer Team. $4,878 oyster habitat at Herrington planting along Stony Run. $5,000 Harbour Marina. $10,968 Weems Creek Conservancy $270 Herring Run Watershed For community awareness Community Resources Association and oyster reef restoration For tree plantings at Matthew For the annual Herring Run in Weems Creek. BALTIMORE CITY Henson Park along the Spring Fest. $25,000 Anacostia River. $981 American Red Cross of $900 Weems Creek Conservancy Central Maryland Johns Hopkins Center For rain garden demonstrations For a rain garden planting. Falls Road Community of Talented Youth and stormwater education and $218 Association For a field trip on the Dee outreach to residents and local For development of environmen- of St. Mary’s. schools in the Weems Creek Archbishop Curley High tally friendly covenants for $250 watershed. School distribution to home builders, $10,000 For water quality monitoring developers, local governments, Jones Falls Watershed along Armistead Creek and and community associations. Association West Annapolis Elementary Herring Run. $7,200 For plants, materials, and a School $758 restoration coordinator for For Bay Grasses in Classes plant- Friends School of Baltimore riparian buffer restoration along ing at Patuxent River Park. Archbishop Curley High For a field trip on the H.M. Stony Run in Wyman Park. $330 School Krentz and a marsh grass $10,815 For a schoolyard wetland planting at Wye Island Natural Whitehurst Community planting. Resources Management Area. Jones Falls Watershed Association $390 $2,660 Association For planting in the Whitehurst For coordination with garden Community as an Eagle Gilman School clubs, recruitment and training, Scout project with Boy Scout For field trips with Living workshop development, and Troop 450. Classrooms Foundation and to other activities. $1,000 Wyman Park, and for cleanup $11,520 materials for Bay studies with the Baltimore Independent Living Classrooms School Learning Camp. Foundation RESTORING SHAD AND HERRING ON $849 For construction of rain barrels by at-risk youth. THE POTOMAC AND ANACOSTIA RIVERS GreenMount School $4,406 For a field trip to Smith In an effort to aid the recovery of key living resources Island with Chesapeake Bay Maryland State Bar Foundation and a canoe trip Association, Section of in the Potomac and Anacostia Rivers, the Chesapeake at Pocomoke State Forest. Environmental Law Bay Trust awarded a grant of $21,000 to the Living $322 For a tree buffer planting Classrooms Foundation to enhance ongoing American at Shallow Run Stream. shad and herring recovery programs. More than twenty Gwynns Falls Watershed $1,000 local schools and hundreds of students from across Association and Helpers of the Earth Neighborhood Morrell Park the Washington metropolitan area provided hands-on Youth Group Elementary/Middle School assistance to the recovery of these fish. The students For a plant garden at Leon For rain garden plantings, assisted with hatching shad and herring eggs and raising Day Park by the Rosemont a no-mow zone, and storm the babies, or fry, in their classrooms. Ultimately, Community youth group and drain stenciling. 28,000 American shad fry were released upstream of volunteers. $895 $224 Little Falls Dam on the Potomac River and 50,000 Morrell Park herring fry were released in the Anacostia River. Hampden Family Center Elementary/Middle School For a field trip with Living For a schoolyard habitat Other key partners in this project included the Classrooms Foundation, planting and a walkway Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Anacostia Watershed planting materials, and a to accommodate disabled Society, the Earth Conservation Corps, the United children’s program. individuals. States Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Interstate $1,040 $668 Commission on the Potomac River Basin.

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Morrell Park Elementary/Middle School For Bay Grasses in Classes planting at Rocky Point Park. $65

Mt. Washington Preservation Trust For a restoration planting by Mt. Washington Arboretum volunteers. $1,000

National Aquarium in Baltimore For Planning of Wetlands teacher training with Environmental Concern. $1,550

Northern High School For field trips with Chesapeake Bay Foundation. $830

Northern High School For student transportation for 10 schools to attend the Youth Summit on the Herring Run at Morgan State University. Trust funding helps Maryland students develop a greater understanding of the Bay’s living resources both $3,130 in the classroom and in the field.

Our Lady of Pompei For plantings by preschool For Bay Grasses in Classes For water quality monitoring students with the Center’s planting at Rocky Point Park. Arbutus Middle School along Herring Run. Bay-friendly environmental $270 For field trips with Living $668 education program. Classrooms Foundation and $561 St. Francis of Assisi School an erosion control and habitat Parks & People Foundation For a schoolyard habitat pond planting on school grounds For plants and planting Roland Park Middle School and planting by students and along Herbert’s Run Stream. materials for an outdoor For the Land and Sea community volunteers. $6,785 classroom and impervious Program with Living $690 surface removal demonstration Classrooms Foundation, Arbutus Middle School at Franklin Square Elementary and for materials for water St. Ignatius Loyola Academy For Bay Grasses in Classes School. quality monitoring and For a field trip with Living planting at Rocky Point Park. $10,210 plantings. Classrooms Foundation for $528 $888 oyster restoration at the Fort Patapsco/Back River Carroll oyster reef. Ascension School Tributary Team Seton Keough High School $2,565 For Bay Grasses in Classes For seedlings for a tree For a field trip to Port planting at Rocky Point Park. grow-out station at Back Isobel with Chesapeake Woodhome Elementary/ $315 River Wastewater Treatment Bay Foundation. Middle School Plant for future riparian $600 For field trips with Living Carney Elementary School buffer plantings. Classrooms Foundation. For a native plant garden on $500 Seton Keough High School $805 school grounds. For field trips to Ft. McHenry $653 Patapsco/Back River wetland, Patterson and Carroll Woodhome Elementary/ Tributary Team Parks, Sandy Point State Middle School Catonsville Elementary For the annual Secchi Dip-In Park, Carrie Weedon Science For Bay Grasses in Classes School at the Baltimore Harbor. Center, and Gwynns Falls for planting at Rocky Point Park. For field trips with Living $455 stream cleanup and plantings. $240 Classrooms Foundation. $940 $1,000

Southwestern High School BALTIMORE COUNTY Cockeysville Middle School Redeemer Family Life Center

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For field trips with Living Classrooms Foundation and to Cromwell Valley Park for stream studies on Minebank Run. $1,738

Hereford Middle School For a BayScape planting on school grounds. $429

Hereford Middle School For field trips to Mariner Point Park and Arthur Sherwood Center with Chesapeake Bay Foundation, and to Gunpowder Falls and Sandy Point State Parks, Marshy Point, Days Cove, and Dundee Creek with Living Classrooms Foundation. $3,793

Hereford Middle School For Bay Grasses in Classes planting at Piney Run Park. $200

Holly Neck Conservation Hands-on experiences have a lasting impact on students studying the Bay. Association, Inc. For wildlife habitat boxes and plants for community For an Environmental Study School For Bay Grasses in Classes volunteer projects. Area on school grounds as an For a field trip to Smith planting at Piney Run Park. $756 Eagle Scout project by Boy Island with Chesapeake Bay $250 Scout Troop 497. Foundation by environmental Irvine Nature Center $375 club members. Franklin High School For Project Clean Stream, $1,000 For a raise and release a community cleanup at 75 Cockeysville Middle School aquaculture program by metropolitan sites by scout For a meadow planting to Deer Park Middle Magnet students and club members. troops, community and enhance the school’s forest buffer School $2,385 church groups, citizens and and Environmental Study Area For Bay Grasses in Classes volunteers. by students and environmental planting at Piney Run Park by Franklin Middle School $9,485 club members. environmental club members. For field trips with Living $850 $460 Classrooms Foundation. Irvine Nature Center $5,000 For the Native Plants for Cromwell Valley Elementary Dundalk Middle School Wildlife Habitat booklet. School For field trips with Living Franklin Middle School $1,000 For field trips with Living Classrooms Foundation. For Bay Grasses in Classes Classrooms Foundation and to $1,750 planting at Piney Run Park. Joppa View Elementary Camp Wo-Me-To, and for a $566 School planting along Minebank Run. Emmanuel Lutheran School For a schoolyard reforestation $4,911 For an Earth Day buffer Genesee Valley Outdoor planting by students, PTA, planting at Susquehanna Learning Center and community members. Deer Park Middle Magnet State Park. For composting toilets to $985 School $1,000 demonstrate conservation For the schoolyard wetland techniques. Kiwanis Club of Timonium- and outdoor environmental Emmanuel Lutheran School $4,796 Hunt Valley, Inc. study area. For a field trip with For riparian buffer plantings $9,800 Chesapeake Bay Foundation. along Dulaney Branch Stream $153 by Dulaney High School Key Club members and community volunteers. Deer Park Middle Magnet Emmanuel Lutheran School Hebbville Elementary School $7,476 Lutherville Community

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Association School For field trips with Living For field trips with Living For buffer plantings along For stream monitoring Classrooms Foundation. Classrooms Foundation. Rolling Run. equipment and supplies. $1,000 $1,000 $1,035 $702 Southwest Academy Villa Cresta Elementary Maryland Cooperative Perry Hall Elementary For Bay Grasses in Classes School Extension-Baltimore County School planting at Piney Run Park. For a field trip to Camp For construction of bat boxes For Bay Grasses in Classes $210 Ramblewood for watershed during a teacher workshop as planting at Rocky Point Park. studies. outreach for The Birds, The $575 Sparks Elementary School $1,000 Bats, and The Bay program. For field trips on the Martha $150 Perry Hall Elementary Lewis. Wellwood International School $1,000 School Maryland Forest For a schoolyard habitat For field trips with Living Conservancy District Board planting. Sparrows Point Middle Classrooms Foundation. for Baltimore County $2,275 School $1,000 For a forest buffer planting For a field trip to Smith at Bear Creek Park along a Redeemer Classical Christian Island with Chesapeake Bay Western School tributary of Bear Creek by School, Inc. Foundation and storm drain of Technology & students from Chesapeake and For field trips with Living stenciling supplies. Environmental Science Sparrows Point High Schools. Classrooms Foundation and $320 For a schoolyard wetland $3,760 supplies for storm drain and tree planting. stenciling in Kingsville. St. James Academy $1,660 Maryland Forest $504 For a canoe field trip on the Conservancy District Board Gunpowder and Bird Rivers. Western School for Baltimore County Rosedale Center $800 of Technology & For a forest buffer planting at For stream cleanup and tree Environmental Science Villa Nova Park by students planting at Gunpowder Falls The Chatsworth School For a field trip to Fox Island from Western School of State Park with Gunpowder For field trips with Living with Chesapeake Bay Technology and Environmental Valley Conservancy as part Classrooms Foundation. Foundation. Science and Milford Mill of SPARE, a Bay program for $1,000 $800 Academy. at-risk high school students. The Park School Western School $3,760 $192

Middlesex Elementary Rosedale Center School For tree planting along Bear For field trips on the Martha Creek in Chesterwood Park with SHORELINE RESTORED ON THE Lewis, a canoe trip, and the Baltimore Forestry Board. SEVERN RIVER for storm drain stenciling mate- $9,816 rials. $900 Sandalwood Elementary With support from the Chesapeake Bay Trust, the School Milford Mill Academy For a field trip with Living Arlington Echo Outdoor Education Center has For buffer plantings at Rockdale Classrooms Foundation. accomplished a number of Bay restoration and Park near a stormwater $702 education projects in recent years. management pond and along a tributary of Dogwood Run. Sandy Plains Elementary With the support of the Trust, Arlington Echo $5,635 School undertook its latest and most involved environmental For a field trip to Elk Neck restoration project — converting 650 linear feet of Mount de Sales Academy State Park for the Adventure bulkhead into a “living shoreline.” Using the Trust’s for Girls Kids summer program. For an environmental study $237 $26,000 grant, a matching grant from the Maryland area on school grounds, and Department of the Environment, technical assistance for plantings and water Save Our Streams from the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, and the hard quality monitoring. For exhibits during the work of volunteers and students, this previously $1,433 Gunpowder Watershed Festival lifeless area was transformed into an area rich at Oregon Ridge Park. Parks & People Foundation $1,000 with living resources. Arlington Echo restored a For use of the Gwynns Falls shoreline, and in the process, improved water Trail as an outdoor classroom Save Our Streams quality, and created habitat for fish and other for schools, and stream For Earth Day projects at aquatic life. This model project now serves as an restoration projects. Gunpowder Falls State Park. educational study area for students and adults. $8,800 $994 Perry Hall Elementary Southwest Academy

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of Technology & For a field trip with Academy of Center for Environmental For a forest buffer planting Environmental Science Natural Sciences and a planting Science to benefit Watts Creek. For a schoolyard rain garden. at Mutual Elementary School For a BayScape demonstration $583 $81 with MESA club on Chesapeake Biological students. Laboratory grounds by Town of Federalsburg Woodmont Academy $395 volunteers. For marsh grass planting For a field trip on the $6,762 along Marshyhope Creek. Martha Lewis. Dowell Elementary School $1,000 $470 For a field trip with Chesapeake Windy Hill Middle School Bay Foundation to release oysters For field trips and equipment at a Patuxent River sanctuary. for water quality monitoring CARROLL COUNTY CALVERT COUNTY $110 at a local stream. $910 Boy Scouts of America, American Chestnut Dowell Elementary School Troop 735 Land Trust For field trips on the Dee of St. Windy Hill Middle School For a footbridge to reduce For submerged aquatic Mary’s and a schoolyard erosion For a field trip with Chesapeake erosion at the stream and vegetation plantings in control planting. Bay Foundation and a Bay wetlands at Linton Springs Parkers Creek with Plum $1,890 Grasses in Classes planting at Elementary School as an Point Middle School students Patuxent River Park in Jug Bay. Eagle Scout project. and community volunteers. Mt. Harmony Elementary $353 $650 $350 School For field trips on the Dee of Boy Scouts of America, Appeal Elementary School St. Mary’s and a schoolyard CAROLINE COUNTY Venturing Crew 202 For field trips on the Dee of buffer planting. For a planting along a St. Mary’s. $1,000 Benedictine School tributary of Morgan Run. $1,575 For a tree planting on school $1,000 Our Lady Star of the grounds with developmentally Beach Elementary School Sea School disabled youth in the LIFE Carroll County Outdoor For field trips on the Dee of St. For a field trip on the Dee Skills Cluster. School Mary’s as part of Wonders of of St. Mary’s and an oyster $1,000 For a forest buffer along Wetlands Week. program. Bear Branch at Hashawha $2,000 $300 Caroline County Public Environmental Center Schools by students, parents, and Beach Elementary School St. Leonard Elementary For field trips on the Schooner volunteers. For the From the Mountains School Sultana by students from $905 to the Bay annual exchange For field trips on the Dee of Denton, Federalsburg, program with Westernport St. Mary’s and storm drain Greensboro, Preston, and Carroll County Outdoor Elementary School. stenciling. Ridgely Elementary Schools. School $1,000 $1,175 $4,250 For a tree nursery at Hashawha Calvert Middle School University of Maryland Denton Elementary School Environmental Center. $1,000

Carroll County Outdoor BAY GRASSES IN CLASSES School For Wild School Grounds teacher training. With a $30,000 grant from the Trust, along with funding assistance from the $1,568 National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and others, 283 teachers and 9,000 students throughout the state of Maryland were involved in the Bay Grasses in Classes program. Carroll County Outdoor School Led by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation and Maryland Department of Natural For construction of rain Resources, Bay Grasses in Classes is a hands-on, interactive education program barrels during a teacher training workshop for where students grow bay grasses, monitor and record growth data, and take part in improving school grounds. transplanting them into select areas of the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Experimental $899 data is submitted weekly for compilation and presentation on the Bay Grasses in Classes website. Carroll County Outdoor School Once the grasses were ready, 315 adults and 1,464 students visited local waterways For a riparian forest buffer to plant them. Seven locations were planted this year, including the Corsica and planting along Big Pipe Creek Choptank Rivers on the Eastern Shore, Piney Run Reservoir in Central Maryland, at Hashawha Environmental Center by volunteers. the Middle River in Baltimore County, and three sites in the Patuxent River in $2,021 Southern Maryland. Carroll County Outdoor

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School School For a rain garden and riparian For field trips on the Martha buffer planting at Carroll Lewis and a tree planting County Outdoor School by on school grounds to create Wild School Grounds teacher wildlife habitat and reduce training participants. runoff into Octoraro Creek. $1,728 $1,814

Francis Scott Key High Elk Neck Elementary School School For bluebird nesting boxes. For a schoolyard wetland $160 pond for ecosystem studies. $785 Fair Hill Environmental Foundation, Inc. Francis Scott Key High For a field trip on the Martha School Lewis and for trees and For release of diamondback supplies for The Bay Starts terrapins at Horsehead Here camp for elementary Wetlands Center. Cranberries bloom in a restored bog near the Chesapeake Bay. and middle school students. $148 $873

Francis Scott Key High For a field trip to Piney Run For aquaculture supplies for Holly Hall Elementary School Park with Chesapeake Bay aquatic studies and native School For schoolyard rain gardens. Foundation. fish raise and release. For field trips on the $228 $1,000 $890 Martha Lewis. $1,000 Gateway School South Carroll High School William Winchester For Bay Grasses in Classes For a field trip to Arthur Elementary School Maryland Department planting at Piney Run Park. Sherwood Center with For a schoolyard rain garden of Natural Resources, $135 Chesapeake Bay Foundation. planting. Fisheries Service $160 $989 For fish ladder repair with Liberty High School volunteers to promote For a BayScape planting on South Carroll High School migration at Big Elk Creek school grounds. For aquaculture supplies CECIL COUNTY in Elkton. $2,000 for native fish raise and $774 release, and underwater Bohemia Manor Middle Linton Springs Elementary grasses grow-out. School Perryville Middle School School $1,930 For field trips to Port Isobel and For Chesapeake Choices and For plants and planting Smith Island with Chesapeake Challenges teacher training. materials. Sykesville Middle School Bay Foundation, and for a $390 $827 For Bay Grasses in Classes tree nursery on school grounds. planting at Piney Run Park. $4,390 Thomson Estates Elementary New Windsor Middle School $310 School For Bay Grasses in Classes Bohemia Manor Middle For field trips on the Martha planting at Piney Run Park. Sykesville Middle School School Lewis and for no-mow zone $310 For plants and planting For Bay Grasses in Classes plantings. materials to maintain a planting at Elk Neck Park. $2,238 North Carroll High School living laboratory. $425 For aquaculture supplies for $1,000 Center for Watershed grasses and native fish raise Cherry Hill Middle School Protection, Inc. and release. University of Maryland, Sea For a field trip to Fox Island For a handbook, consensus $3,250 Grant Extension Program with Chesapeake Bay agreements, and innovative For the Aquaculture in Action Foundation. site design publication. Northwest Middle School teacher training workshop. $985 $11,800 For a schoolyard riparian $9,800 buffer planting. Cherry Hill Middle School $827 Westminster East Middle For Chesapeake Choices and CHARLES COUNTY School Challenges teacher training. Runnymede Elementary For a riparian forest buffer $390 John Hanson Middle School School planting. For field trips on the Dee of For a rain garden on school $1,000 Cherry Hill Middle School St. Mary’s and for cleanup grounds to benefit the For Bay Grasses in Classes materials. Monocacy River. planting at Elk Neck Park. $1,000 $2,739 $1,425 Shiloh Middle School Westminster High School Conowingo Elementary Maryland Center for

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Environmental Training Conservation District Baltimore at the College of Southern For The Land and Water For submerged aquatic Community Commons, Inc. Maryland Connection environmental vegetation plantings for For grow-out projects and For copies of a video on program at Horn Point marsh expansion on dredge coordination of the Watershed the impact, construction, Environmental Education spoil at Barren Island. Conservation and Education maintenance of, and Center for Eastern Shore $10,000 Program in Frederick County. alternatives to home middle school students. $23,178 septic systems. $1,000 $5,000 University of Maryland Mount Airy Naturalist Maces Lane Middle School Center for Environmental Society, Inc. For Bay Grasses in Classes Science For a buffer planting at a Mt. DORCHESTER COUNTY planting in Federalsburg by For a field trip on the Nathan Airy wetland by community Content Skills Development of Dorchester for the Kids residents and volunteers. Dorchester County Resource students. Bay Adventures program. $963 Preservation & Development $234 $275 Corporation New Market Middle School For a workshop to develop Vienna Elementary School For water quality monitoring plans and partnerships for For schoolyard rain garden at local sites. shoreline erosion control plantings. $393 projects. $468 $642 Dorchester Soil National Aquarium in FREDERICK COUNTY Oakdale Middle School

Students help plant a schoolyard habitat area.

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For a schoolyard wetland For a field trip with Living For field trips on the Troop 874 restoration and Wonders of Classrooms Foundation. Martha Lewis. For a riparian forest buffer Wetlands teacher training. $330 $1,500 planting by Boy Scouts and $6,819 community volunteers. Harford Glen Environmental Southampton Middle School $171 Urbana High School Education Center For Bay Grasses in Classes For aquaculture supplies for For an Eagle Scout erosion planting at Rocky Point Park. Boy Scouts of America, native fish raise and release, control project to redirect $387 Troop 874 and for nutrient studies on stormwater runoff from For a riparian forest buffer Bay grasses. buildings at the Center. The Highlands School planting by Boy Scouts and $568 $190 For a field trip on the Martha community volunteers. Lewis and a Bay Grasses in $500 Harford Glen Environmental Classes planting. GARRETT COUNTY Education Center $453 Boy Scouts of America, For wood duck nesting boxes Troop 874 Grantsville Elementary and wetland studies. William Paca/Old Post Road For an outdoor classroom School $2,957 Elementary School at River Hill High School For a schoolyard habitat For field trips on the as an Eagle Scout project. planting. Harford Glen Environmental Martha Lewis. $595 $448 Education Center $2,550 For a bog demonstration Boy Scouts of America, Route 40 School planting. Troop 944 For monitoring and Bay $754 HOWARD COUNTY For a riparian forest buffer studies at the schoolyard planting as part of the wetland. Havre de Grace Middle Athelas Institute, Inc. Helping Our Wild Neighbors $495 School For Bay Grasses in Classes (HOWN) project. For field trips on the Martha planting at Piney Run Park $280 Lewis. by developmentally disabled HARFORD COUNTY $3,000 adults. Clarksville Elementary $141 School C. Milton Wright High Izaak Walton League of For a forest buffer planting School America, Sportsman’s Atholton Elementary School along Cabin Branch with the For Bay Grasses in Classes Chapter For a forest buffer planting Schools and Streams Program. planting at Rocky Point Park. For plantings along Deer along Cabin Branch with the $160 $202 Creek in Rocks State Park Schools and Streams Program. and Edin Mill County Park. $260 Clemens Crossing Center for Watershed $419 Elementary School Protection, Inc. Boy Scouts of America, For field trips with Living For Harford County site Izaak Walton League of Troop 601 Classrooms Foundation. planning and roundtable America, Sportsman’s For forest buffer planting on $1,000 discussion. Chapter the Tiber Hudson tributary of $1,000 For signage identifying streams the Patapsco River watershed as Clemens Crossing in the Deer Creek watershed. part of the Helping Our Wild Elementary School City of Aberdeen $950 Neighbors (HOWN) project. For a forest buffer planting For an environmental comic $500 along Cabin Branch with the book with a teacher’s guide Magnolia Middle School Schools and Streams Program. for Aberdeen public school For a schoolyard habitat Boy Scouts of America, $360 teachers. planting. Troop 737 $967 $644 For a streamside buffer Dasher Green Elementary planting. School Edgewood Middle School North Bend Elementary $394 For a forest buffer planting For field trips on the Martha School along Cabin Branch with the Lewis. For Bay Grasses in Classes Boy Scouts of America, Schools and Streams Program. $893 planting at Piney Run Park. Troop 757 $570 $417 For a forest buffer along a Emmorton Elementary tributary of the Patuxent Deep Run Elementary School North Bend Elementary River in the Gray Rock Farms School For bluebird nesting boxes School community. For a forest buffer planting and an Earth Day planting. For a field trip to Port Isobel $1,000 along Cabin Branch with the $910 with Chesapeake Bay Schools and Streams Program. Foundation. $480 $840

Harford Christian School Southampton Middle School Boy Scouts of America, Elkridge Elementary School

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For a forest buffer planting Elementary School Extension Service–Howard Recreational Riding along Cabin Branch with the For a forest buffer planting County Master Gardeners Center, Inc. Schools and Streams Program. along Cabin Branch with the For trees for forest buffer For nesting boxes and rain $250 Schools and Streams Program. plantings along Cabin barrels to control erosion $110 Branch with the Schools and enhance water quality Forest Ridge Elementary and Streams Program. in Cattail Creek with special School Howard County Department $10,341 needs children. For a forest buffer planting of Recreation and Parks $900 along Cabin Branch with the For seine nets for water quality Maryland Forest Schools and Streams Program. monitoring at 50 stream sites Conservancy District Board Thunder Hill Elementary $670 by volunteer stream monitors. for Howard County School $236 For tree plantings at Fulton For a forest buffer planting Friends of the Patapsco and Talbott Springs Elementary along Cabin Branch with the Female Institute, Inc. Jeffers Hill Elementary Schools and Meadowridge Park Schools and Streams Program. For plants, signage, and School by volunteers. $200 volunteer coordination for For a forest buffer planting $1,000 BayWise demonstration along Cabin Branch with the Triadelphia Ridge gardens. Schools and Streams Program. Northfield Elementary Elementary School $999 $260 School For a forest buffer planting For a forest buffer planting along Cabin Branch with the Friendship Baptist Church Laurel Woods Elementary along Cabin Branch with the Schools and Streams Program. For Wonders of Wetlands teacher School Schools and Streams Program. $270 training, and materials for wet- For a forest buffer planting $390 land enhancement and along Cabin Branch with the Wilde Lake Middle School BayScape plantings on church Schools and Streams Program. Rockburn Elementary School For a field trip to Mt. Pleasant property. $300 For a forest buffer planting Farm, and for water quality $8,837 along Cabin Branch with the monitoring and a tree buffer Lisbon Elementary School Schools and Streams Program. planting along Davis Branch Fulton Elementary School For a forest buffer planting $405 with Howard County For a schoolyard riparian buffer along Cabin Branch with the Conservancy. planting along a tributary of Schools and Streams Program. Running Brook Elementary $750 Hammond Branch by Fulton $300 School Elementary and Lime Kiln For a forest buffer planting Worthington Elementary Middle School students. Long Reach High School along Cabin Branch with the School $1,000 For Bay Grasses in Classes Schools and Streams Program. For a forest buffer planting planting at Piney Run Park. $130 along Cabin Branch with the Fulton Elementary School $288 Schools and Streams Program. For a forest buffer planting Running Brook Elementary $300 along Cabin Branch with the Longfellow Elementary School Schools and Streams Program. School For field trips with Living $465 For a forest buffer planting Classrooms Foundation. KENT COUNTY along Cabin Branch with the $770 Gorman Crossing Schools and Streams Program. Horizons Student Elementary School $360 Stevens Forest Elementary Enrichment Program For a forest buffer planting School at Kent School along Cabin Branch with the Manor Woods Elementary For a riparian forest buffer For a field trip to Echo Hill Schools and Streams Program. School planting with the Schools Outdoor School for at-risk $320 For field trips with Living and Streams Program. students. Classrooms Foundation. $360 $777 Hammond Elementary $1,000 School Swansfield Elementary Horizons Student For a forest buffer planting Manor Woods Elementary School Enrichment Program along Cabin Branch with the School For a forest buffer planting at Kent School Schools and Streams Program. For a forest buffer planting along Cabin Branch with the For a shoreline erosion control $345 along Cabin Branch with the Schools and Streams Program. planting at Wye Island Natural Schools and Streams Program. $540 Resource Management Area. Hollifield Station $480 $1,000 Elementary School Talbott Springs Elementary For forest buffer plantings along School Cabin Branch with the Schools For a schoolyard erosion and Streams Program. control planting. $400 $1,000

Hollifield Station Maryland Cooperative Therapeutic and Kent County Department

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of Planning and Zoning School For promotion of environmentally For field trips with Living sound practices in the Classrooms Foundation and BAY STUDIES HELP WITH home and backyard. storm drain stenciling. COMPUTER LEARNING $984 $1,510

Kent County Soil & Water Brooke Grove Elementary The Clay Street Learning Center is a small non-profit Conservation District School dedicated to providing computer training and For a field trip on the Schooner For Bay Grasses in Classes community development opportunities to the residents Sultana. planting and a boat trip at $670 Piney Run. of Clay Street. Thanks to a grant of more than $590 $10,000 from the Chesapeake Bay Trust, the Center Kent Ruritan Club has begun incorporating Bay-focused environmental For a riparian buffer planting Butler Montessori School education and restoration into its programs. Funding at Kent Agricultural Center in For planting materials for helped with program development, purchased water Tolchester. a nursery and greenhouse. $365 $794 quality monitoring kits, provided a Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF) oyster gardening workshop, and Kent School Butler Montessori School involved community residents on a Bay studies trip For seining materials and For a field trip to Port aboard the CBF skipjack Stanley Norman. Bay Grasses in Classes planting Isobel with Chesapeake at the Corisca River. Bay Foundation. The Center committed to a yearlong water quality study $513 $900 of local College Creek to establish the community’s connection to the Bay, while providing a real-world Rock Hall Middle School Chevy Chase Elementary For a field trip to Echo School application for its computer program. Along the way, Hill Outdoor School. For a schoolyard habitat planting. new relationships have been forged between the Clay $540 $720 Street community and local watershed groups such as the Friends of College Creek. City of Rockville MONTGOMERY COUNTY For a citizen-based stream monitoring and storm drain Argyle Middle School stenciling program along tribu- For Bay Grasses in Classes taries of Watts Branch, Cabin planting at Piney Run Park. John Creek, and Rock Creek. $225 $993

Benjamin Banneker Middle Clarksburg Elementary School School For schoolyard wetland For field trips with Living restoration to benefit water Classrooms Foundation. quality in the Anacostia $770 River watershed. $2,906 Dr. Sally K. Ride Elementary School Bethany Community Church For field trips with Living For a forest buffer planting Classrooms Foundation, along the stormwater plantings and cleanups at the Children from the Clay Street community learn about the Bay’s management pond and school wetland, and Wonders living resources aboard the CBF skipjack Stanley Norman. wetland area on church of Wetlands teacher training grounds by members and to integrate science studies volunteers. with the wetland. $1,996 $2,422 For bluebird nesting boxes For field trips to Arthur at Perry Hall, Hollywood, Sherwood Center and Clagett Bradley Hills Elementary Eastern Middle School Southlake, Washington Grove, Farm; on the Snow Goose, School For a field trip to Karen and Sparks Matsunaga Potomac River Study and For Bay Grasses in Classes Noonan Center with Elementary Schools; Morrell Maryland Canoe Rig Trips; planting at the Choptank River. Chesapeake Bay Foundation. Park Elementary/Middle School; and with the Maryland Rivers $550 $981 Butler Montessori School; and and Streams Program and Phoenix II High School. the Maryland Education and Eastern Middle School $3,529 Restoration Program with For Bay Grasses in Classes Chesapeake Bay Foundation. planting at Piney Run Park. $1,000 $504 Broad Acres Elementary Forest Oak Middle School Forest Oak Middle School Forest Oak Middle School

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For water quality monitoring School equipment and a stream For field trips with Living monitoring brochure. Classrooms Foundation and $685 storm drain stenciling. $1,270 Forest Oak Middle School For field trips to the Patuxent Shady Grove Middle School River with the Maryland Rivers For Bay Grasses in Classes and Streams Program, and to planting at Patuxent River Arthur Sherwood Center with Park. Chesapeake Bay Foundation. $80 $949 Temple Shalom Forest Oak Middle School For equipment and supplies For planting materials and for Stream Team monitoring water quality monitoring along Rock Creek. equipment. $310 $875 The Harbor School Forest Oak Middle School Kayakers participating in the Patuxent River Sojourn meet up For field trips to Cabin John For Bay Grasses in Classes with a work boat to plant oysters. Creek and Flag Ponds Nature plantings at Patuxent River Center for water quality and Rocky Point Parks, and a monitoring and cleanups, and field trip to Fox Island with School Team supplies for stream studies. Chesapeake Bay Foundation. For Bay Grasses in Classes For a field trip on the $475 $2,026 planting at Piney Run Park. Susquehanna with Chesapeake $450 Bay Foundation for tributary The Potomac Conservancy Fox Chapel Elementary team members and volunteers. For rain garden workshops, School Lake Seneca Elementary $400 riparian restoration projects For field trips with Living School with volunteers, and a plant Classrooms Foundation and For field trips with Living Middle Potomac Tributary grow-out nursery at Poolesville a tree planting at Seneca Creek Classrooms Foundation and Team High School. Park along Seneca Creek. to Smithsonian Environmental For an urban nutrient $37,100 $1,195 Research Center for wetland management and agricultural studies, stream monitoring and best management practices tour Trinity College Gaithersburg Middle School plantings, and a schoolyard of Montgomery County sites For field trips with Living For a schoolyard planting and habitat planting. for local government members, Classrooms Foundation for school-based nursery. $2,972 legislators, farmers, business students. $860 executives, and citizens. $1,000 Luxmanor Elementary $750 Glenallan Elementary School School Viers Mills Elementary For Bay Grasses in Classes For a field trip with Living Phoenix II High School School planting at Piney Run and Classrooms Foundation and For a field trip on the For a field trip with the Patuxent River Parks. a tree planting. Potomac River for wetland Maryland Education $1,387 $1,000 and Bay studies. Restoration Program in $684 Patuxent River Park with Glenallan Elementary School Mark Twain School Chesapeake Bay Foundation. For field trips with Living For Bay Grasses in Classes Pine Crest Elementary $288 Classrooms Foundation. planting at Piney Run Park. School $1,500 $948 For Bay Grasses in Classes Viers Mills Elementary planting at Patuxent River School Happy Homeschoolers Martin Luther King Middle Park. For Bay Grasses in Classes For a field trip on the Dee School $250 planting at Patuxent River of St. Mary’s and a planting For a field trip on the Schooner Park. along Rock Creek by students Sultana for Montgomery Poolesville Elementary $576 and parents. County teachers. School $983 $650 For field trips with Living Classrooms Foundation. Kemp Mill Elementary Meadowside Nature Center $2,018 School For a meadow restoration and For field trips with Living erosion control planting in Rock Redland Middle School Classrooms Foundation. Creek Regional Park by scout For tree planting on school $2,000 groups and volunteers. grounds to benefit Rock Creek. $665 $1,444 Kemp Mill Elementary Middle Potomac Tributary Ritchie Park Elementary Westbrook Elementary

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School For plantings along Laurel School For tree planting along the For field trips with Living Lakes in Granville Gude For water quality monitoring, Anacostia River. Classrooms Foundation, Echo Park by Old Town Citizen cleanups, and stream studies $270 Hill Outdoor School, to Flag Association members and along Sligo Creek. Ponds for horseshoe crab release, volunteers. $463 Greenbelt Elementary School for Stream Fest, and ongoing $11,623 For a planting and community stream monitoring at Little Cheverly United Methodist storm drain stenciling, BayScape Falls Stream. Bond Mill Elementary Church restoration plantings, and a $3,824 School For materials and plants forest buffer enhancement on For Bay Grasses in Classes for a streamwater retrofit to schools grounds. Westbrook Elementary planting at Patuxent River Park demonstrate rain gardens, $3,490 School and the Maryland Education bioretention, and filtering For the Aqua Eagles Club Restoration Program with methods. Gwynn Park Middle School program, field trips to Clagett Chesapeake Bay Foundation. $10,293 For a field trip and water Farm and Patuxent River, Bay $606 quality monitoring. Grasses in Classes planting Dematha Catholic High $982 and groundtruthing, and field Bowie High School School trips to the Potomac River For a BayScape demonstration For water quality monitoring Gwynn Park Middle School for shad raise and release with planting by students and along the Anacostia River. For stream monitoring to Chesapeake Bay Foundation. volunteers to serve as a $419 support the environmental $1,455 bioretention area for roof program. runoff. Eleanor Roosevelt High $1,000 Whetstone Elementary $1,414 School School For water quality monitoring Living Classrooms For field trips with Living Bowie High School at stream sites as part of the Foundation Classrooms Foundation and For a field trip to Karen Watershed Integrated Study For shad and herring restoration to Montgomery County Noonan Center with Program. on the Potomac and Anacostia Recycling Center. Chesapeake Bay Foundation. $753 Rivers. $1,642 $500 $21,000

Wilderness Adventures Cesar Chavez Elementary Friends Community School Martin Luther King, Jr. Specialty Camp at Camp Sonshine For a wildlife habitat and riparian forest buffer planting. INAUGURAL PIONEER GRANTS INVOLVE CITIZENS, RESTORE OYSTERS $2,195

Woodfield Elementary Introduced this year, the Pioneer Grants Program is the Trust’s latest annual School grant-giving initiative. It is designed to help develop and implement innovative, For field trips and plantings. cutting-edge approaches that increase Bay awareness, and enhance restoration $3,365 and protection initiatives. Three Pioneer Grants were awarded in the inaugural year, Wyngate Elementary School each demonstrating a unique vision for tackling complex problems facing the Bay. For a schoolyard habitat planting and field trips with On the Eastern Shore, researchers at the Paul S. Sarbanes Cooperative Oxford Living Classroom Foundation. Laboratory are working to develop a Hydraulically Operated Benthic Excavation Chamber $2,197 (HOBEC), a state-of-the-art piece of equipment that will be used to clean and reestablish historic oyster beds. Working in tandem with an advanced sonar system for identifying PRINCE GEORGE’S oyster beds buried beneath the Bay and river bottom, this technology provides promise COUNTY for continued oyster restoration even as shell for projects becomes scarce. In Annapolis, the Weems Creek Conservancy chose to take its message door-to- Alice Ferguson Foundation door, creating a homeowner awareness campaign for its local watershed. Using a For a rain garden planting at Hard Bargain Farm. combination of approaches, the Conservancy is succeeding in educating the local $815 community, and encouraging homeowner best management practices.

Alliance for the Chesapeake In Baltimore, the Falls Road Community Association saw the opportunity to reduce Bay, Inc. the environmental impacts of future development in its community by creating a For the Patuxent River Sojourn. model community covenant that promotes Bay-friendly action. The project includes $10,675 a campaign to inform homebuilders, developers, local governments, and community associations of actions that can be taken to promote Bay-friendly development. Bethany Community Church

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Middle School 4-H Center For an aquaculture program Science Camp for Girls For tree planting as an Eagle For Bay Grasses in Classes with students and Ecology For a field trip to Echo Scout project. planting and a field trip to Corps members. Hill Outdoor School and $160 Camp Greentop in the Catoctin $959 a shoreline stabilization Mountains for Camp Teen planting. Mattaponi Elementary Extreme program with 4-H Eastern Shore Land $987 School participants and students from Conservancy For stream monitoring, a local shelter. For a BayScape and rain Youth Committee of the cleanups, and evaluation. $1,850 garden demonstration site. Severn River Yacht Club $308 $2,350 For a shoreline stabilization University of Maryland planting, canoe field trip, and North Forestville Elementary 4-H Center Kennard Elementary School Bay education at Wye Island School For Wonders of Wetlands For a field trip on the Schooner Natural Resource Management For a field trip to Patuxent teacher training, and water Sultana and a BayScape on Area for students and parents. River 4-H Center. quality monitoring materials school grounds. $488 $556 for teens and adult leaders. $397 $669 Patuxent Elementary School Kent Island Elementary SOMERSET COUNTY For a meadow habitat University of Maryland, School planting. Landscape Architecture For a schoolyard BayScape Tylerton Community Council $174 Program habitat planting. For a shoreline restoration. For a study of the influence $1,000 $9,174 Prince George’s County of awareness programs on Department of environmental education Kent Island High School Environmental Resources and behavior change. For a schoolyard planting by ST. MARY’S COUNTY For workshop materials for $30,000 students in the Health and Bay-friendly landscaping Human Services Cluster. Boy Scout Troop 427 techniques. William S. Schmidt Center $999 For bluebird nesting boxes at $10,000 For a schoolyard wetland Battle Creek Nature Center. planting at the Center by LEAD Maryland $237 The Patuxent River 4-H Brandywine Elementary For the Aquarius research Center Foundation, Inc. School students. vessel during an educational Chesapeake Bay Field Lab, For outreach and restoration $998 seminar on agriculture Inc. projects with 30 public schools programs. For a Bay education program in Prince George’s County to $800 and learning stations at study water resource issues. QUEEN ANNE’S COUNTY Chesapeake Bay Field Lab $31,930 Maryland Department of on St. George’s Island. Bayside Elementary School Natural Resources, Wye $9,100 The Washington For a field trip on the Schooner Island Natural Resources EnvironMentors Project Sultana. Management Area Great Mills High School For water quality monitoring $500 For shoreline buffer and For a field trip with Chesapeake along the Anacostia, Patuxent, wetlands plantings as an Bay Foundation to release oysters and Potomac Rivers. Camp Wright Eagle Scout project with on a Patuxent River sanctuary. $77 For a rain garden planting. Boy Scout Troop 741. $133 $200 $5,095 University of Maryland Centreville Middle School Great Mills High School Queen Anne’s County For Bay Grasses in Classes Forestry Board planting at Patuxent River For tree planting on a county Park. right-of-way behind the $336 Inverness community with the Inverness homeowners group. Hollywood Elementary $960 School For a vernal pool habitat Sudlersville Middle School and schoolyard meadow For a field trip on the Schooner planting with St. Mary’s Sultana for Ecology Corps students. College students. $480 $272

Sudlersville Middle School For wood duck nesting boxes with students and Ecology Corps members. $964 Summer Days Math and Hollywood Elementary Each year the Trust funds a number of bilingual storm drain stenciling projects.

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School For a field trip to local Alliance For a field trip on the Dee Easton High School waterways for water quality For a watershed brochure and of St. Mary’s for pre-service For field trips to Pickering monitoring and a study of homeowners guide for the teachers from St. Mary’s College Creek Audubon Center, the the Antietam Creek watershed Nanticoke River Education and Science Club students. Getting Wet for Wetlands by Quest Science students. Program. $350 program, and shoreline $314 $2,720 restoration. Hollywood Elementary $2,423 Northwestern Elementary School WICOMICO COUNTY School For a field trip to Port Friends of Home Run For Bay Grasses in Classes Isobel with Chesapeake Baker Park Bennett Middle School planting at Marshyhope Bay Foundation. For tree buffer planting in For field trips to Horn Point Park on the Choptank River. $608 Home Run Baker Park. Environmental Laboratory $148 $1,000 for Bay studies. Mechanicsville Elementary $500 Prince Street Elementary School Maryland Department of School For a rain garden planting Natural Resources, Fisheries Delmar Middle & Senior For Bay Grasses in Classes on school grounds. Service and Cooperative High School planting on the Choptank River. $351 Oxford Laboratory For a schoolyard habitat $354 For development of a planting by students and Potomac River Association, Hydraulically Operated environmental club members. Salisbury University Inc. Benthic Excavation Chamber $1,000 For the River Watchers For marsh and submerged (HOBEC) prototype for volunteer water quality aquatic vegetation planting oyster reef restoration. Friends of the Nanticoke monitoring program on the in Breton Bay. $10,000 River Wicomico River with the $5,916 For a buffer planting at Roaring University’s Center for Saints Peter and Paul High Point County Park along the Environmental Education Spring Ridge Middle School School Nanticoke River by high school and Research. For field trips on the Dee of For Bay Grasses in Classes and college students, members $6,031 St. Mary’s and a planting at planting at Marshyhope and volunteers. Elms Environmental Center. Creek in Federalsburg. $800 Wicomico Day School $900 $350 For a schoolyard habitat Glen Avenue School planting by students, St. Mary’s College of For a plant garden for use community partners, Maryland WASHINGTON COUNTY in the EcoTeam education and Towson University. For eelgrass grow-out with program with students and $1,614 Chesapeake Bay Field Boonsboro Elementary the Maryland Conservation Laboratory. School Corps/Lower Eastern Shore. Wicomico High School $4,376 For a field trip to Antietam $871 For water quality monitoring National Battlefield and water equipment. St. Mary’s Ryken High quality monitoring equipment. Nanticoke Watershed $995 School $400 Alliance For Bay Grasses in Classes For the Nanticoke Storm Drain planting at Broomes Island. Earth Conservation Corps Stenciling Campaign WORCESTER COUNTY $200 For a rain garden planting at in local neighborhoods to Anacostia Community Park. raise awareness of pollution. Pocomoke Middle School Town Creek Elementary $3,700 $1,650 For a schoolyard wetland School to support the Wetland For the schoolwide oyster Highland View Academy Nanticoke Watershed Preservation Project with growing program, a teacher For field trips with Chesapeake Alliance afterschool club members training workshop, and oyster Bay Foundation, a planting For a demonstration and community volunteers. field trips with Academy of on school grounds, and water BayScape planting at $3,350 Natural Sciences Estuarine quality monitoring equipment Salisbury Zoological Park. Research Center. for stream studies. $2,500 $3,786 $2,793 Nanticoke Watershed Maryland Department of Highland View Academy Alliance Natural Resources, Tidewater For Bay Grasses in Classes For oyster reef restoration Ecosystem Assessment planting at Piney Run Park. on the Nanticoke River. For a pilot program to grow $306 $20,000 eelgrass in school classrooms. $3,450

Smithsburg Middle School TALBOT COUNTY Nanticoke Watershed

ANNUAL REPORT FY 2002 25 APPLYING TO THE TRUST

he Chesapeake Bay Trust possesses a strong • Sound Land Use: Projects and activities that reputation as a valuable, straightforward, and encourage the protection and stewardship of Ttrusted grantmaker for Maryland non-profit land resources in order to protect and restore groups, civic organizations, schools, and public water quality, habitat, and living resources. agencies that are dedicated to the restoration and protection of the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries. • Stewardship and Community Engagement: Projects and activities that raise the public’s The Trust’s grant priorities and programs, grant awareness of the Bay, its rivers, and streams criteria, and application process are summarized by involving them in restoration, protection, below. For more information or to acquire a grant and educational activities. application, please visit the Trust’s website at www.chesapeakebaytrust.org. • Meaningful Bay Experience: Projects or activities with students and teachers where GRANTMAKING PRIORITIES Bay and environmental issues are investigated through the collection and analysis of The Chesapeake Bay Trust is committed to information and hands-on restoration advancing the goals of the Chesapeake Bay and protection projects. restoration and protection effort. The Chesapeake 2000 Agreement, which outlines actions and GRANT PROGRAMS restoration and protection goals, guides that effort. The Trust has established its grantmaking To advance the Trust’s priorities, four grant priorities (listed below) to coincide with the programs have been established. The programs Chesapeake 2000 Agreement. reflect the Trust’s commitment of funding a broad range of projects in a timely and efficient manner. • Living Resource Protection and Restoration: Projects or activities that protect and restore Ongoing Grants the finfish, crabs, oysters, and other living The Ongoing Grants program allows schools, resources of the Bay, its rivers, and streams. civic and environmental organizations, and others to apply for a grant up to $2,000 anytime during • Vital Habitat Protection and Restoration: the year. Grant proposals are judged against the Projects and activities that protect and restore Tr ust’s grant priorities and established criteria, habitats, including wetlands, forests, Bay and a decision is made within 3-to-4 weeks. grasses, streamside forest buffers, and other natural areas. Standard Grants The Trust accepts Standard Grant applications • Water Quality Restoration and Protection: from $2,001 to $25,000 on a quarterly basis for Projects and activities that seek to restore and projects that address one or more of the Trust’s protect water quality to support living resources grant priorities. Projects may focus on preserving in the Chesapeake Bay, its rivers, and streams. water quality and wildlife habitat, restoring living resources and protecting land resources, and engaging students and community residents in Bay initiatives.

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Request for Proposals The Trust does not award grants for lobbying efforts, The Trust’s Request for Proposals program is an fundraising, endowments, building campaigns, annual grant initiative that provides from $25,001 deficit financing, annual giving, research, food, or to $50,000 for projects within a specific Bay to individuals. Recipients will be held accountable restoration and protection discipline. The purpose for certifying how grant funds have been used. The of this program is to direct grant funding to an area Tr ust requires verification of grant expenditures at of the Bay effort that is in particular need. project completion.

Pioneer Grants APPLICATION PROCESS The Pioneer Grants Program is the Trust’s most Applications are welcomed throughout the year; recent annual grant giving initiative. It is designed however, grants for more than $2,000 must be to help develop and implement innovative, cutting- submitted by designated deadlines prior to the next edge approaches that increase Bay awareness, and/or quarterly meeting of the Board of Trustees. All enhance restoration and protection initiatives. applicants are encouraged to discuss project ideas with Trust staff before completing the application. GRANT CRITERIA The Trust favors action-oriented projects that References and letters of recommendation or engage the public. Project proposals that have endorsement need not be supplied unless requested. a direct benefit to the health of the Bay and The applicant will receive written confirmation involve volunteers in the effort are highly from the Trust of the receipt of the proposal and an encouraged. The Trust also seeks proposals estimate of the date by which a decision is expected. that provide matching funds or support from other sources. Please visit the Trust’s website at: www.chesapeakebaytrust.org for more information. Proposals are evaluated on the basis of appropriateness, clarity of objectives, the plans for achieving the objectives, and the qualifications of the organization for carrying out the project activities.

A kayaker enjoys the Bay.

ANNUAL REPORT FY 2002 27 CONTRIBUTORS–FISCAL YEAR 2002

A. R. Meyers and Associates All Pro Marina Baltimore Marine Center Architects, Inc. AIA Gary G. and Karen L. Allen David B. Bancroft ASAP, Screenprinting and Anderson, Davis & Associates, CPA Nick Barbalace Embroidery Annapolis Boat Shows Angela J. Barnes Accuprop, Inc. Annapolis Striders, Inc. Ruth E. Barrett Adams Buick, Pontiac & Elizabeth Arcuri Bass Pro Shops, Inc. GMC Truck Arundel Mills Residual L.P. Bay Bridge Marina Operations, LLC Albermarle Sportfishing Boats Avon Dixon Insurance The Bechdon Company, Inc. Belmont Bay Harbor, LLC The Big Enchilada Herry M. and Cynthia A. Binnendijk CHARITY EVENTS HELP TREASURE THE CHESAPEAKE Bozzuto Homes, Inc. David W. Branch On Thursday, May 2, 2002, over 200 Bay supporters enjoyed Blaine A. Brooks the fourth annual Treasure the Chesapeake Celebration at the Dr. Torrey C. Brown Chesapeake Bay Beach Club on Kent Island. Hosted by long-time Mayor John L. Brunner supporters Tom and Jamie Pumpelly, owners of the Bay Bridge Eric J. Brush Marina, the event raised more than $40,000 for the Chesapeake Dr. William A. Cain Bay Trust. “We are so pleased to host this important event that Calvert Marina raises both awareness and money for the Chesapeake Bay,” explains Richard H. and Mary M. Chaney Jamie Pumpelly. “Our four-year partnership with the Chesapeake Chesapeake Appreciation, Inc. Bay Trust has raised about $150,000 and has involved hundreds Chesapeake Atlantic Yacht Sales of businesses and individuals in the effort.” Chesapeake Bay Beach Club Chesapeake Bay Commission The Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Inc. Chesapeake Marina Corporation James Childs, Jr. Sheldon and Janet M. Church CIG, International, LLC Dr. Thomas A. and Elizabeth G. Clark The Columbia Bank Constellation Energy Group Combined Federal Campaign Participants Combined Charity Campaign Participants The County Commissioners of Queen Anne’s County Joseph S. Crawford Beth Ann and William L. Cunane Ethel and Joseph Danzansky Foundation, Inc. David Harp Photography Delegate C. Richard D’Amato Assistant Director Melanie Teems enjoys the “Treasure the Chesapeake” Celebration June R. Davidson with Bay Bridge Marina owners Jamie and Tom Pumpelly. James A. and Dawn Davit Joseph A. Decesaris Other charity events for the Trust during the past year included: Michael D. and Suzanne Derby the Governor’s Bay Bridge Run, the Great Chesapeake Bay Swim, Discovery Logic, Inc. the Big Enchilada Chili Cook-Off, the Taste of South County Nghiem T. Do at Herrington Harbor Marina, and the Bay Country Century Donald B. Rice Tire Co., Inc. Bicycle Race. The Drees Company

28 ANNUAL REPORT FY 2002 CONTRIBUTORS–FISCAL YEAR 2002

Erin L. and Kevin D. Dunworth Mark Laubner David P. and Sharon L. Porter James P. and Donna Forbes Durkan Ledo Pizza System, Inc. Potomac Conservancy Dynasty Yachts International, LLC David S. and Emily D. Lengyel William C. Preston James A. and Sylvia T. Earl Siri Lombardi Primedia, Special Interest Publications Eastern Applicators, Inc. LSP Studios Thomas F. and Jamie L. Pumpelly Eastern Mountain Sports Tom and Priscilla K. McCary Queen Anne’s County Departments Eastern Petroleum Corporation William McCormick, Jr. of Parks, Recreation and Business Joann L. Ely John and Debbie McDevitt Tourism Glenn C. Etelson, Esq. Maggione Restaurant Queenstown Golf Course ESDC, Inc. The MarketPro Cortez W. Randell Fairline Boats of North America Marine Forensic Technicians, Inc. Regulator Marine, Inc. Frances H. and John L. Flanigan, III Martek-Ki, Inc. Brenda Mauney Rian John R. Flood Jack Martin Insurance Group JoAnn Marie Roberts Melise Fouladi Maryland League of Conservation Charlene Neill Roe Kathleen L. Fox Voters Education Fund Kathleen Rohan Debra Franson-LeFevre Maryland Charity Campaign Ron Bortnick Ford, Inc. Raymond J. Fugere Participants Ronald W. Johnson Associates G. Harry D. and Mary R. Gatanas Maryland Department of Natural Edward L. Ruegg, Jr. Richard E. Gayle Resources Warren Saunders Great Chesapeake Bay Swim Maximum Title Group, Inc. Schooner Sultana Wendy Thomas Greenberg The Michael Companies, Inc. Frank Scherber John R. and Terry A. Guildener Michael T. Rose Associates, Inc. Lois Beth Schreiber Katricia S. Guzzi Carl Minkus Thomasine B. Schreier Guy J. and Pamela L. Guzzone Employees of the MITRE Corporation Charles Scully George D. and Kim S. Haddow Monarch Hotel Showcase Publications, Inc. Hamilton Harbour Marina & Barbara A. and T. Conrad Monts Shulman, Rogers, Gandal, Pordy & Boat Works William B. and Barbara B. Moulden Ecker, P.A. David Harp Meg Murray Clifford E. and Kathleen S. Smith Jerry and Patricia Harris National Aquarium In Baltimore Patricia A. Smith Walter B. Harris Nationwide Yacht Transport, Inc. George E. and Judith R. Snider, Jr. Harris Crab House New Millennium Sailboats Chris and Valerie L. Surprenant Joseph N. and Kendall S. Hartman North Atlantic Marine Group Tapestries Gary Heath Robert E. and Martha G. Nielsen Taste of Southern Maryland The Helena Foundation Nina, Pinta, & Santa Maria Gifts Team Snow Valley Hemingway’s Restaurant Officers and Men of Task Force 513th Melanie M. and Michael D. Teems Herrmann Advertising Military Intelligence Brigade, Debra L. and Tyler C. Terry Holloway & Associates, Inc. Central Asia Trident Funding Corporation Holt Marine Systems, LLC Orchard Development Corporation The Trust for Public Land Michael J. Howard Hartley and Jannette A. Owen Ms. Josephine Valenti Barbara J. and Robert G. Hoyt Oyster Recovery Partnership W. H. Harris Seafood, Inc. Hurricane Awning and Canvas Chantal A. Paradiso Wade Dotson & Associates Independent Distributors, Inc. Donna F. and Midgett S. Parker, Jr. David J. Wallace Richard B. and Sandra Reagan James Paul Reed Smith Al Wayson Stephen A. and Judith D. Johnson Lewis L. and Denise F. Peach Weems & Plath, Inc. K & P Builders, Inc. Pettit Family Charitable Foundation Welbourne Electrical Services Margaret E. Kalacznik Gerald C. Pitts and Robin L. Harris Lianne D. Wendell Kettler Brothers Homes, LLC Steven W. and Margaret B. Podlich Patrick L. and Patricia Z. Woodward Koch Realty, Inc. Stephen D. Pomaro B. J. Wueker Robert P. Kopta Martin H. Poretsky Kathleen M. and Wilson W. Wyatt, Jr. Kaye L. Kubas Mildred Poretsky Zodiac of North America, Inc. Heather C. Langenberg Porten Companies, Inc.

ANNUAL REPORT FY 2002 29 FINANCIAL REPORT–FISCAL YEAR 2002

BALANCE SHEETS, YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 2002 AND 2001

2002 2001 2002 USE OF FUNDS ASSETS 5% 5% Cash and Cash Equivalents 97,875 29,364 Investments 9,347,283 9,116,167 Agency Funds Held for Others 72,415 97,600 Contributions Receivable 612,919 600,964 90% Interest Receivable 99,359 115,554 Fixed Assets, Net 17,802 13,983

TOTAL ASSETS 10,247,653 9,973,632 Programs - Grants Awarded ($1,147,248) LIABILITIES AND FUND BALANCES - Grants Administration ($253,232) Liabilities Management Salaries Payable 24,687 18,502 Fundraising Grants Payable 115,977 65,621 Deferred Revenue 18,790 16,247 Agency Funds Held For Others 72,415 97,600 Total Liabilities 231,869 197,970

2002 RESOURCES FUND BALANCES Unrestricted 5,015,784 4,775,662 Board Designated Fund 5,000,000 5,000,000 31% Total Fund Balances 10,015,784 9,775,662 69% TOTAL LIABILITIES AND FUND BALANCES 10,247,653 9,973,632

Contributions - Bay License Plate Sales ($567,828) - Bay and Wildlife The Chesapeake Bay Trust’s independently audited financial statement, Fund Tax Check-off ($552,007) prepared by Anderson, Davis & Associates, CPA, is available upon request. - Other ($63,355) Investment Income

30 ANNUAL REPORT FY 2002 Each year hundreds of people support the Chesapeake Bay Trust through donations, memorial gifts, and charity campaigns. Thousands more purchase the Bay license plate and support the Bay and Wildlife Tax Check-off. We are grateful to all our donors and deeply appreciate their generosity.

Thanks for Your Support! 60 West Street / Suite 200-A / Annapolis, Maryland 21401-2400 (410) 974-2941 www.chesapeakebaytrust.org