by admin | Oct 13, 2020 | Lightning Update
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...
by admin | Oct 7, 2020 | Lightning Update
“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...
by admin | Oct 1, 2020 | Lightning Update
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...
by admin | Sep 8, 2020 | Lightning Update
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...
by admin | Sep 1, 2020 | Lightning Update
Realtor.com is now displaying two different indicators for flooding risk for all properties. Last week Realtor.com began displaying flood hazard information for each of the 110 million homes currently listed on its site. It is the only major on-line real estate...
