Welcome to BayStat
Governor Martin O’Malley created BayStat by Executive Order in February, 2007 – a powerful new statewide tool designed to assess, coordinate and target Maryland’s Bay restoration programs, and to inform our citizens on progress.
Each month Governor O’Malley meets with his BayStat team -- the Secretaries of the Maryland Departments of Agriculture, Environment, Natural Resources and Planning, scientists from the University of Maryland and other key staff -- to make sure our Bay restoration work is on track. These sessions provide a regular opportunity for the team to assess progress, evaluate what’s working and what’s not, and adapt our efforts accordingly.
BayStat allows Maryland state agencies to work smarter…
- coordinating efforts and programs
- basing decisions on the best available science
- targeting resources to get the biggest bang for the buck and
- being more open and accountable to Maryland citizens
2 Year Milestones:
On May 12, 2009, Governor O'Malley joined Virginia's Governor Kaine, Washington D.C Mayor Fenty, EPA Administrator Jackson, and representatives of Pennsylvania, Delaware, West Virginia, and New York in announcing significant acceleration of our collective Chesapeake Bay restoration actions over the next 2 years. Maryland's suite of actions represent a 138% increase in our rate of nitrogen reduction and an over 500% increase in our rate of phosphorus reduction, and put Maryland on a pace to meet our Bay Restoration Goals by 2020.
Maryland's BayStat agencies are currently working on revising the "Solutions" portion of this website to transparently track our progress at meeting these Milestones. We expect to have this completed by early August. In the meantime, more specifics on Maryland's actions can be viewed at Maryland 2 Year Milestones.
From the desk of
Governor Martin O'Malley
It's been a little more than a year since we first launched our Marylanders Plant Trees program, and now that summer has quickly turned into fall - there is no better time to plant a tree than today.
Families from Western Maryland to the Eastern Shore, and all points in between have already joined together to plant 22,000 trees to create that greener, more sustainable future for our children and future generations. But we need your help to reach our goal to plant 50,000 trees by 2010.