At this week’s Middlesex Kiwanis meeting, the speaker was Tara Rudo, a Marine Education specialist at the Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Rudo spoke about the critical importance of the wetlands that make up a sizeable portion of the local environment and that is too often taken for granted.
An estuary is where a body of water like the Rappahannock River meets a larger body of water. At Monday’s meeting, Kiwanians learned that Middlesex County residents live next to the nation’s largest estuary, the Chesapeake Bay, which holds an average of 15 trillion gallons of water, is host to about 3,600 species of plants and animals, and produces 500 million pounds of seafood annually.
The speaker came to Urbanna from the Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve-Virginia (CBNERR-VA), which is a partnership between the Commonwealth of Virginia and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration…
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