{"id":110,"date":"2011-03-30T02:01:18","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T06:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/?p=110"},"modified":"2016-01-27T11:58:21","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T15:58:21","slug":"chesapeake-bay-foundation-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/2011\/03\/30\/chesapeake-bay-foundation-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Chesapeake Bay Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kaltoons.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/save-the-baybird-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"307\" height=\"394\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbf.org\/Page.aspx?pid=1000\" target=\"_blank\">The Chesapeake Bay Foundation<\/a> is an organization to save one of our most prized natural treasures on the east coast &#8212; The Chesapeake Bay.\u00a0 The organization advocates for the cleanup and protection of the Bay.\u00a0 As stated in their mission &#8220;The Chesapeake Bay Foundation&#8217;s (CBF) mission is to save the bay and keep it saved.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Formed in 1957, The CBF has been recognizing the poor treatment of the bay and has been pushing for better treatment and care of the waters and the animal life in it.\u00a0 They fight for bold and creative solutions to pollution across six states, the Chesapeake Bay Watershed, and speak to business, the government, as well as the public.\u00a0 The CBF uses legal means when necessary to enforce already set laws and promotes education of environmental protection to those that wonder and have interest.<\/p>\n<p>Growing up on the Bay I know how important it is to save the bay.\u00a0 It is a beautiful area with an abundance of wildlife that feed off the rivers and environment both in the the Bay and the Watershed itself.\u00a0 Conservation of the Bay is essential is keeping a thriving environment.\u00a0 What have you done to help stop pollution of the Bay?<\/p>\n<p>Save the Bay!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chesapeake Bay Foundation is an organization to save one of our most prized natural treasures on the east coast &#8212; The Chesapeake Bay.\u00a0 The organization advocates for the cleanup and protection of the Bay.\u00a0 As stated in their mission &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/2011\/03\/30\/chesapeake-bay-foundation-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1499,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1046,1044,1571],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biosphere","category-hydrosphere","category-spring-2011"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1499"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}