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Author Tom Horton to Address Lessons Learned from Chesapeake Bay Restoration at April 26th Lecture
April 13, 2007 CONTACT: The Coalition for Buzzards Bay (508) 999-6363, ext. 202
NEW BEDFORD, MA—Why after spending $3.7 Billion over the past decade does the Chesapeake Bay remain severely degraded, meriting only a score of 29 out of 100 from the Chesapeake Bay Foundation? Tom Horton, award-winning author and former environmental columnist for the Baltimore Sun will speak about the lessons learned from a quarter century of restoring the Chesapeake Bay on Thursday, April 26 at 7:00 pm at the Marion Music Hall, 164 Front Street, Marion. Horton's presentation is part of The Coalition for Buzzards Bay’s Global Nitrogen Pollution Crisis lecture series, which explores the histories, commonalities, and lessons-to-be-learned from other bays around the world. Admission is free tomembers of The Coalition for Buzzards Bay. Charge per lecture for non-members is $5. Senior or student non-member charge per lecture is $3. Horton has a long and distinguished career writing about Chesapeake Bay issues. A native of Maryland’s Eastern Shore and a graduate of Johns Hopkins University, he has worked as a chicken farmer, an Arabic translator, a newspaper reporter, and a writer. He covered the environment for the Baltimore Sun for 30 years and received numerous regional and national awards for environmental coverage of the Chesapeake Bay. These awards included the Scripps HowardNewspapers Meeman Award, the National Wildlife Federations Communication of the Year Award, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation Conservationist of the Year Award, and the Sierra Club David Brower Award. Horton is the author of six books about the Chesapeake. His book, Bay Country, won the John Burroughs Medal for natural history writing. Another, Turning the Tide: Saving the Chesapeake Bay, was the first comprehensive assessment of the state of the Chesapeake Bay environment and is widely used as curriculum in the Maryland and Virginia public schools and colleges. Now working as a freelance writer, Horton lives on the Nanticoke River, one of the Chesapeake's less developed tributaries. The final presentation in The Global Nitrogen Pollution Crisis lecture series will be held on May 10 at Falmouth Academy, 7 Highfield Drive, Falmouth. Dr. Brian Howes, Professor at the School for Marine Science and Technology, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth and Mark Rasmussen, Buzzards Baykeeper and the Coalition’s Executive Director, will share stories behind their work on nitrogen management efforts from the Caribbean to Eastern Europe to Antarctica in a lecture titled The Black Sea, Montego Bay, and Lake Fryxell. For more information, click :: here :: or contact The Coalition for Buzzards Bay at 508-999-6363. —###—
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