• The working watermen community of Tangier Island VA at sunset. Photo by Starke Jett.

    Chesapeake Bay

Management

Chesapeake Bay Special Resource Study

The "Chesapeake Bay Special Resource Study," requested by Congress and released in 2003, explores whether creating a unit of the National Park System focusing on the Chesapeake would meet NPS criteria and assist on-going efforts to celebrate and conserve the nation's largest estuary. Read the study here.

Did You Know?

Satellite image of the Bay

Did you know that the Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in North American and the second largest in the world?