Chesapeake Bay

The Chesapeake Bay Group facilitates collaboration and information sharing among those interested in assessing and valuing ecosystem services provided by natural resources in the Bay watershed and the development of the policy, tools, and infrastructure needed for enabling environmental markets to function effectively in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. These topics are of importantance for those charged with both regulating environmental compliance in the Chesapeake Bay watershed as well as those supporting voluntary conservation. Collaboration among governemnt, NGO and private interests is essential to address these challenges in the Chesapeake Bay watershed.