by admin | Oct 28, 2019 | Lightning Update
This one and a half minute video is a quick primer on community land trusts, non-profit organizations that focus on developing affordable housing projects but may also create urban agriculture projects, develop community commercial spaces and conserve land or urban...
by admin | Oct 24, 2019 | Lightning Update
Brent Leggs, Executive Director of the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund set an inspirational tone for the Chesapeake Conservation Partnership’s 10th Annual Meeting, challenging the group to ramp up...
by admin | Oct 7, 2019 | Lightning Update
Applications are open now for a Chesapeake Watershed Conservation Finance Intensive Workshop on December 16-18. Are you looking to access new sources of funding for land conservation deals? Do you require more complex funding and financing tools to achieve your land...
by admin | Sep 30, 2019 | Lightning Update
A new study released last week documents one of the largest ever, long-term habitat connectivity experiments. The findings show clear, persistent benefits in maintaining species biodiversity. (Image: Washington Post) The importance of connecting isolated blocks of...
by admin | Sep 23, 2019 | Lightning Update
A new historical marker was dedicated last month in Goochland County, Virginia, marking the first donation of a conservation easement to the Virginia Outdoors Foundation — 51 years ago in 1968. (Image: Parker Agelasto) So who among us has seen historical markers...
