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Getting the Most Bang for your Tree (…or clam or scallop or mussel…): Integrating Restoration and Policy Agendas to Affect Environmental Change Stephanie Reynolds and Bill Goldsborough Chesapeake Bay Foundation. Presented by: Tommy Leggett Chesapeake Bay Foundation. Oyster Planting Event
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Getting the Most Bang for your Tree (…or clam or scallop or mussel…): Integrating Restoration and Policy Agendas to Affect Environmental Change Stephanie Reynolds and Bill Goldsborough Chesapeake Bay Foundation Presented by: Tommy Leggett Chesapeake Bay Foundation
Oyster Planting Event • CBF’s Oyster Restoration Center • Speaker Busch (MD state) interested • One morning on board for an oyster planting • CBF followed up with specific requests for Chesapeake oyster restoration: “Oyster Solutions” • Bills passed the following session: • $250,000 for artificial reef construction • $9 m for expanded hatchery production • Creation of the Oyster Advisory Commission (OAC) • Increased enforcement (poaching)
Maryland Dairy Farm project • Stream bank fencing/ tree planting project in Congressman Bartlett’s (R-MD) district • 80 volunteers • 30 volunteers sent the letters urging him to support Chesapeake Bay $$$ in • Farm Bill • Bartlett signed on • as a co-sponsor* *CHESSEA marker Bill: Chesapeake’s Healthy and Environmentally Sound Stewardship of Energy and Agriculture Act of 2007
West Virginia Project • CBF does one project in WVa/ year (minor partner) • Legislative agenda: • Get $$$ in the Federal Farm bill for the Chesapeake • Sen. Rockefeller (D-Wva) asked for 3 letters of support; • CBF worked with restoration partners in WVa to get 9 letters • Rockefeller signed on as a co-sponsor
West Virginia Project Successful Formula: Restoration partners + clear policy agenda + asking partners to act on that agenda
Hands-on restoration events with no policy agenda = Lots of capital, but no way to spend it Policy agenda without hands-on restoration events = No capital, but a need to spend it Restoration Events + Policy Agenda