Chesapeake Bay Awareness Week begins tomorrow, June 3rd, and runs through the following weekend. If you are interested in joining in the conversation on social media, Choose Clean Water has compiled a list of themes for each day of the week (Wildlife, Recreation, etc.) and is hosting a DropBox where Coalition members can share resources related to each theme. Below is a list of Bay Program-produced content related to each theme that you are welcome to share as well.
Choose Clean Water DropBox of CBAW materials: https://www.dropbox.com/l/scl/AADlPEqaqJ-qmKIKzEQojP2nHusVll0iV_Q
Chesapeake Bay Program Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/29388462@N06/ (If you use one of our images, please credit the Chesapeake Bay Program and let us know!)
Hashtags: #ChesapeakeBay #AreYouBayAware
Daily social media themes and related CBP content:
Jun 3: Kickoff
- Chesapeake Bay Awareness Week event page
- National Trails Day
- Fourteen reasons to love the Chesapeake Bay
Jun 4: Food & Agriculture
- Learn the Issues: Agriculture
- Restoration Spotlight: Maryland Farmer develops solution for agriculture runoff
- E-Z Acres makes stream-friendly farming look, well, easy
- Restoration Spotlight: Generations of conservation on a West Virginia family farm
- Restoration Spotlight: Oregon Dairy Farm in Lititz, Pennsylvania
Jun 5: Wildlife
- Field Guide
- By the Numbers: 15 (number of wildlife refuges)
- The early banders catch the birds
Jun 6: Recreation
- Find Your Chesapeake
- By the Numbers: 54 (number of NPS sites)
- Twenty-four new sites connect residents to the water
- Fish, boat and enjoy the water at four new public access sites
- At home, on the water in Baltimore
- Ten boats of the Chesapeake Bay
Jun 7: Drinking Water
- Facts & Figures: Forests and trees help filter and protect the drinking water of 75 percent of watershed residents.
- Facts & Figures: The more than 100,000 rivers and streams that thread through the Chesapeake Bay region provide drinking water for its millions of residents.
Jun 8: EC Meeting
- #2017ECMeeting
- Link to blog post and/or press release
- Post photos of and quotes from attendees
Jun 9: Forests
- Learn the Issues: Forests
- By the Numbers: 110,701 (acres of forest land protected by Forest Conservation Act)
- A woman and her woods
- Restoration Spotlight: A forest’s hopes rest on golden wings
- By the Numbers: 60 (percent of fragmented forests)
Jun 10: What you can do
