Fighting for oceans.
They say that all politics are local, and if your cause is
protecting the seven seas (or at least your neighborhood beach)
you'll want to be armed with The Ocean and Coastal Conservation
Guide, a/k/a The Blue Movement Directory (Island Press, $26.95).
Compiled by journalist-turned-activist David Helvarg (whose report from
the frontlines in New Orleans New Orleans (ôr`lēənz –lənz, ôrlēnz`), city (2006 pop. 187,525), coextensive with Orleans parish, SE La., between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain, 107 mi (172 km) by water from the river mouth; founded can also be seen in this issue), the Guide
is the first comprehensive listing of more than 2,000 marine groups. If
you live in Chestertown, Mary land, for instance, you'll want to
know about the Chester River The Chester River is a major tributary of the Chesapeake Bay on the Delmarva Peninsula. It is about 40 miles long, and its watershed encompasses 368 mi², which includes 295 mi² of land. Thus the total watershed area is 20% water. Association, which fights to protect a
vital estuary estuary (ĕs`ch ĕr'ē), partially enclosed coastal body of water, having an open connection with the ocean, where freshwater from inland is mixed with saltwater from the sea. . If Puget Sound Puget Sound (py `jĕt), arm of the Pacific Ocean, NW Wash., connected with the Pacific by Juan de Fuca Strait, entered through the Admiralty Inlet and extending in two arms c. is your playground, then it's nice to
have the phone, e-mail and web address of the North Sound Baykeeper.
This is an invaluable reference work that will probably have to be
updated annually as the ocean activist community expands and changes.
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