Narration: At Greenbury Point, in Annapolis, Maryland, a group of midshipman, middle schoolers and cub scouts are volunteering their time and energy to clean up one of the nation’s largest waterways.

Boy: It’s the Chesapeake Bay.

Boy: It’s a great place to be and it’s a great place to live.

Katie: What about seafood?

Boy: Lobster and crabs are my favorite.

Narration: Crabs are just one of the species suffering though, thanks to the Chesapeake Bay’s high levels of pollution. And it’s the pollution that got the US Forest Service involved. Sally Claggett and Al Todd are program managers.

Al Todd: Certainly crabs and fish and most things living in the Bay suffer from the pollution of the waters the over enrichment with nutrients.

Sally Claggett: Nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorous and even sediment they occur naturally in the Bay but right now they are in...
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Promo: In the next episode of Tales from Urban Forests, we head to the banks of the Chesapeake Bay to see how trees along the shore can help fish within the waters of the nation’s largest estuary.

Intro: The Chespeake Bay is the largest estuary in the U.S., spanning from New York to Delaware. But the health of the Bay is on the down swing, facing high levels of pollution that threaten the life of many species we’ve come to enjoy. At the same time that pollution is rising, urban development along the Bay is increasing, and the number of trees is decreasing. Can replacing some of those trees help to save the Bay? SOUNDPRINT’s Katie Gott reports.

Outro: In our next program, we’ll look at how students in an urban area are using technology in their efforts to increase tree canopy in their city. This program is part of the ongoing series, Tales from Urban Forests. The series is produced by the SOUNDPRINT Media Center, and supported in part by American Forests and the U.S. Forest Service. For more information on the series, please visit trees.soundprint.org.