The Chesapeake Bay Program is a unique regional partnership that brings together leaders and experts from a vast range of agencies and organizations. The Bay and its rivers, wetlands and forests provide homes, food and protection for countless animals and plants. Partners work together through the Bay Program’s goal teams, workgroups and committees to collaborate, share information and set goals. The Chesapeake Bay Commission devoted several pages in its 2006 annual report to the then newly created national historic trail and the partnerships that made it possible. Twitter; Facebook; Pinterest; Google Classroom; Email; Print; Credits Media Credits. Courtesy of the Chesapeake Bay Program. They figured with the discovery of gold, a rapid and prosperous future awaited them. They did not leave written accounts of their time here, but they did leave records in the form of artifacts such as stone tools, animal bones, and ceramic pots. Most of the settlers’ time was devoted to searches for gold instead of the stabilization of their new settlement with farms or resources. When 120 men arrived in Jamestown on May 14th,1607 they relied on the hopes of discovering gold. 6 - 12+ Subjects. Grades. The Chesapeake region also held its own economic standards. Indigenous peoples were the Chesapeake Bay region’s earliest human residents and were among the first in the Western Hemisphere to encounter European explorers and colonists. Geography, Social Studies. The Chesapeake Bay (/ ˈ tʃ ɛ s ə p iː k / CHESS-ə-peek) is an estuary in the U.S. states of Maryland and Virginia. The Chesapeake Bay—the largest estuary in the United States—is an incredibly complex ecosystem.
Watch our series of short, informational videos to discover some of the issues affecting Bay health. Britain had harvested most of its large timber, so the virgin forests of the Chesapeake represented a less glamorous but far more useful resource to the pragmatic Smith. Chesapeake Bay. Bay 101. John Smith's Exploration Routes in the Chesapeake Bay John Smith's Exploration Routes in the Chesapeake Bay Map of Maryland and the Chesapeake Bay. Each Bay Program partner uses its own resources to implement Bay restoration and protection activities. Field Guide . It appears that he explored the Pocomoke on his initial voyage of discovery in June 1608, so he would have seen the river’s giant cypresses and Atlantic white cedars. When Captain John Smith first explored the Chesapeake Bay in 1607, the “Great Shellfish Bay,†as it was called by the Algonquian Natives, had transparent waters teeming with aquatic life, massive oyster reefs, tremendous waterfowl flocks, and …