Our Land, Our Heritage, Our Future
Urban to the left (Baltimore MD). Rural to the right (near Wrightsville PA). In either case, most of these kids had never been in or on the water before these experiences, despite living just short distances away.(Photos: left - James Chang for NPS; right - NPS) In...
About seven years ago community residents began organizing to turn a decaying, abandoned park space into a new model community park in Baltimore. Find out more in this video. (Photo: Bernard C. Jack Young/Twitter)Over the past six months, Lightning Updates have...
"We Need to Talk: Conserving Land for Public Health, Equity, and Access to Nature” kicked off the Partnership's 2020 Annual Meeting with a candid conversation among a distinguished group of professionals.We need to engage a new, intentionally inclusive generation of...
Black American watermen dominated the oyster fleets in Virginia during the late 1800s. This photo was taken along the York River around 1900. (Photo: The Mariner's Museum) Almost a year ago, we reported on the Chesapeake Conservation Partnership's 2019 Annual Meeting...
The National Park Service Chesapeake Bay and the Chesapeake Conservation Partnership invite you to listen in on a candid conversation among a diverse group of six distinguished professionals working at the intersection of public health, equity, and conservation. We...
Access to the water, parks, green space, healthy foods, and more are all related to land conservation. And all among the many components of public health. (Photos (clockwise from top left): MDDNR; Google Maps; Doherty) The connections between land conservation and...
