New Pennsylvania Investments in Land Protection

New Pennsylvania Investments in Land Protection

The Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources announced 2019 grant awards of $6.38 million for 13 land protection projects in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. (Map: PADCNR) The Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR)...
Send Us Your 2019 Success Story Suggestions

Send Us Your 2019 Success Story Suggestions

The Partnership will soon be assembling a set of 2019 success stories to help share and illustrate progress and accomplishments in this year of land conservation in the Chesapeake watershed. Send us yours! We all need to tell the stories of land conservation successes...
Delmarva Oasis: Protecting 50% by 2030

Delmarva Oasis: Protecting 50% by 2030

By 2030, the Eastern Shore Land Conservancy seeks to protect 50% of the Delmarva Peninsula with the support and partnership of multiple conservation-based organizations, the Maryland, Delaware, and Virginia state governments, the private sector, and forward thinking...
New Research on Conservation Referendums

New Research on Conservation Referendums

The Trust for Public Lands tracks ballot measures financing land protection and publishes the data through its LandVote database. A new study examines factors influencing the likelihood of these conservation referendums. (Image: TPL) A year ago we shared an update on...
Large Tract Protected in Chesapeake Watershed

Large Tract Protected in Chesapeake Watershed

Protection of a nearly 5,000 acre tract of woodlands, just added to the George Washington and Jefferson National Forests, conserves local historic resources and the water quality of headwater streams flowing into the James River and Chesapeake Bay.(Image: Neil...