NFWF Chesapeake Bay Business Plan

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<p>The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation's Chesapeake Bay Business Plan was developed in August 2012 and revised in August 2018. The plan outlines a comprehensive strategy to guide NFWF’s conservation investments in the region through 2025 and establishes clear and achievable conservation goals to enhance the resilience of the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem, increase populations of priority species, reduce harmful pollutants from entering streams, rivers and the Bay, and reduce the costs of the recovery effort.</p>
<p>As part of its strategic investment efforts, NFWF will geographically focus its Stewardship Fund investments first in priority subwatersheds where NFWF and its partners have identified significant opportunity to reduce nutrient and sediment loading, specifically from agricultural and urban sources. NFWF will also use existing data and decision-support tools to further target those areas where species-specific interventions can help to improve habitat and restore populations of Eastern brook trout, Eastern oysters, American black duck and river herring within priority subwatersheds.</p>
<p>NFWF anticipates that a significant share of Stewardship Fund funding will be deployed in priority subwatersheds based on the unique opportunities to maximize multiple goals and outcomes. However, NFWF will continue to support water quality improvement activities across the Chesapeake Bay watershed in addition to habitat and species-specific activities in strategic locations that may be outside of priority subwatersheds.</p>