A Citizen's Resource Guide to Beneficial Landscaping and Habitat Restoration in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. It's arranged in chapters that lead from the lawn to the water's edge. The second chapter. Later chapters move into protecting critical resources such as wetlands, forests and riparian buffers, and managing property that fronts the Bay and tidal rivers. Throughout, it directs readers to where they can get more information.
Every page guides readers to additional resources for information.
The book also contains an extensive directory of federal, state and local agencies and nonprofit and private organizations that can provide useful information. The lists were compiled during a year of research that included Internet searches, libraries and a host of contacts through the Bay Program. More than 200 surveys were sent out asking for resource leads. Although it doesn't claim to be all-inclusive, it's certainly one of the best compilations around.