Chesapeake Bay RAVE multimedia

by iLCP, Jenny Nichols

Produced in partnership with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation with imagery from the Chesapeake Bay RAVE.

Last December, EPA issued a science-based diet that—if achieved—would reduce pollution to our waterways. Just as progress is underway, powerful forces are working to derail the recovery effort. All of us who love the Bay and its rivers and streams must make our voices heard.

ACT

Watch this video, visit cbf.org/getinvolved, and write your state representatives. Tell them you care about clean water!

Chesapeake Bay RAVE

The Chesapeake Bay watershed covers approximately 64,000
square miles (164,000 km2) and comprises one of the most important
 estuaries in the North Atlantic. With rapid development along its 
shores destroying vast swaths of wetlands and buffering forest, and
 polluted with a steady increase in agrochemical runoff from the 1950s
 on, this once thriving estuarine ecosystem was headed toward collapse.

A forty-year campaign by The Chesapeake Bay Foundation and other
stakeholders has gradually turned the tide, with current political will
 at the point of tipping toward long-term restoration and protection of
 the Bay. The Chesapeake Clean Water and Ecosystem Act (H.R. 3852/S.
1816) was introduced to both chambers of the United States Congress 
last October, on its way to mark-up at the end of this year. These two 
bills seek to amend the Federal Clean Water Act (Section 117) to ensure 
that the six states of the Bay watershed, plus the District of
Columbia, develop and implement detailed plans to reduce pollution 
sufficiently to achieve Bay-wide pollution reduction targets for
 nitrogen, phosphorus, and sediment by 2025.

The Chesapeake Bay RAVE, a project of the International League of
Conservation Photographers (iLCP) and the Chesapeake Bay Foundation 
(CBF), is a collaborative effort to highlight the importance of this 
legislation through photographs, video, and stories from across the 
Chesapeake Bay and its watershed. iLCP and CBF will use the collected
 media from the RAVE to document issues facing the Bay and to produce an exhibit of 
thirty photographs to premiere in September 2010 on Capitol Hill. The compelling visual media displayed will help facilitate news
 coverage on the urgency of the Chesapeake Clean Water and Ecosystem Act, advocating for the restoration of the Bay’s health and its protection in the 
long term. The expedition team is composed of iLCP 
photographers from across North America, including several who live 
within the Chesapeake Bay watershed.

Flathead Wild Revisited

by EP Films and iLCP Multimedia

Salmon Strongholds

by iLCP Multimedia, Jenny Nichols (iLCP), Laura Shpilenok (WSC), Mark Christmas (iLCP) and Dan Nelson (WSC)

“Let us now, at the eleventh hour, take pity on our long persecuted salmon and do him the poor and tardy justice of giving him, in our broad land that he has done so much for, one place where he can come and go unmolested and where he can rest in safety.” - Livingston Stone

Produced in partnership with the Wild Salmon Center with support from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.In 1892, Livingston Stone, a Minister and avid fisherman called upon the US government to create a salmon park, saying “Let us now, at the eleventh hour, take pity on our long persecuted salmon and do him the poor and tardy justice of giving him, in our broad land that he has done so much for, one place where he can come and go unmolested and where he can rest in safety.” We have yet to pay attention to those great words, stated over a century ago.While recovery efforts are critical in some areas, the nations of the North Pacific must work together to create and maintain a network of strong, healthy salmon ecosystems – strongholds of diversity and abundance. This proactive investment in robust salmon ecosystems provides an alternative to waiting until near extinction to try to reverse the effects of habitat degradation and overharvest.Fortunately, there are rivers across the North Pacific still intact and teeming with wild salmon.By identifying and protecting strongholds of robust salmon productivity in key rivers around the North Pacific Rim, we can direct our efforts toward conserving still healthy and intact salmon ecosystems. Wild salmon rivers are core centers of abundance and diversity, serving as the foundation for healthy wild fisheries, healthy economies, and healthy communities.Protection of wild salmon strongholds must be at the heart of every federal, regional, tribal, and local conservation strategy.We need your help.To learn more, visit The Wild Salmon Center

RAVE Retrospective Exhibit Slideshow

by iLCP

Flathead Wild Film

by iLCP Multimedia and Epicocity Project

Follow the International League of Conservation Photographers for a R.A.V.E. in the Flathead River Valley in Southeastern British Columbia. The goal of these Rapid Assessment Visual Expeditions is to capture compelling media to support an existing conservation effort. Here, in one of the most pristine river valleys on the planet, a proposed open pit coal mine would disrupt a critical habitat migration corridor and pollute the headwaters of Glacier National Park in the US.