Published:
August 1, 1991
Originator:
Chesapeake Bay Program

We have scored significant gains in our common effort to sustain the productivity and safeguard the future of the Chesapeake Bay. Under the 1987 Chesapeake Bay Agreement, literally hundreds of tasks have been initiated to fulfill its bold promise to restore and protect this treasured eatuary. These essential steps have carried us to a new threshold in our mutual endeavor to save a major ecosystem through cooperative action. Our challoenge now is to maintain, and even increase, the momentum achieved over the months and years since the creation of the Chesapeake Bay Program. We must look anew at the still formidable challenges ahead and bring into sharp focus the spcifiec objectives that merit priority now and in the months ahead.

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