Maps

Large Watersheds that provide important spawning and nursery habitat for commercial and recreational anadromous fisheries.

Highest ranking (top 20th percentile) small watersheds important for protecting water quality based on biophysical characteristics.

Highest ranking small watersheds that support high quality coastal habitat, natural resources and critical fisheries spawning and nursery areas in tidal waters and near-shore areas.

This map represents a complete, aggregated layer of protected lands in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed and intersecting Counties as of 2011. It is a combination of multiple State, Federal and Non-Governmental Organization sources. Overlapping and duplicate areas have be deleted to address double counting.