Our Land, Our Heritage, Our Future
Land conservation successes and challenges in the Chesapeake watershed present an international example of how communities can use innovative science, partnerships, and finance to achieve ambitious conservation goals.
Pennsylvania has focused regional collaboration around large Conservation Landscapes since 2004. All, or significant portions, of five of these landscapes are within the Chesapeake Bay watershed. The Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources...
The Piedmont Environmental Council recently announced the annual roundup of land conservation throughout its nine-county region in Virginia. Private landowners, working with land trusts and public agencies, protected 12,430 acres in 2019. This represents the highest...
The Chesapeake Conservation Partnership's Steering Committee met last week and, among other items on the agenda, welcomed six new committee members. Here's a quick run down of who's joining the Partnership's leadership team: Brett Glymph has been executive director of...
We will shortly be profiling a set of Chesapeake conservation successes from 2019, illustrating the breadth of great work going on around the watershed. But, it's never too early to tout one of the early successes of the new year. On January 17, the University of...
Bucks. Frog skins. Clams. This time, we’re not talking fauna, but finance. No matter what you call them, we know that dollars are a key component to making strategic land conservation work. This interest in learning more about new and innovative sources of funding and...
It's always worth taking a look outside the Chesapeake watershed now and then to see what other folks are doing. A bit of exploring turned up some interesting land conservation work coming out of King County, Washington. And it all seems relevant to issues we are...
