Launching the Find Your Chesapeake GeoTour®

Launching the Find Your Chesapeake GeoTour®

Landscape conservation requires … people who know and care about special places, of course! This past Saturday, the National Park Service, Chesapeake Conservancy and Susquehanna Heritage welcomed over 150 geocachers to launch the Find Your Chesapeake GeoTour®....
Big Pennsylvania Forest Conservation News

Big Pennsylvania Forest Conservation News

Sometimes news from just outside the Chesapeake watershed is pretty important — and this is one of those times. Last week, The Conservation Fund announced the purchase of the 32,598 acre Clarion Junction Forest in Pennsylvania’s Elk and McKean counties....
Urban Through-Hiking!

Urban Through-Hiking!

“Like the Appalachian Trail but with More Stoplights” Chesapeake Conservation Partnership members often have conversations about making the connection between urban areas and landscape conservation. After all, many of the watershed’s 18 million...
Urban Farming on The Rise

Urban Farming on The Rise

Chesapeake Conservation Partnership members work to conserve farms, forests, habitat, heritage and human health. One key goal is “protecting the Chesapeake watershed’s productive farms and prime farmland from conversion and securing space for urban farming to...
More Rivers of the Chesapeake Conservation Success

More Rivers of the Chesapeake Conservation Success

On April 24, 2018 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service acquired 51 acres as an addition to the James River National Wildlife Refuge in Prince George County, Virginia. Known as “Osprey Nest,” the purchase was made possible through the Rivers of the Chesapeake Land and...