by Jake Leizear | Nov 13, 2018 | Homepage
The Bay Journal reported recently on a new tool displaying climate changes at the county level for most of the Chesapeake watershed and the northeast US. An interactive map allows the user to hover over a county and see trends in temperature, precipitation and growing...
by Jake Leizear | Nov 7, 2018 | Homepage
Last Friday (November 2), Virginia Governor Ralph Northam signed an executive order setting out steps to improve resiliency to sea-level rise and natural hazards associated with climate change. Perhaps the most significant element of the order is the directive to...
by Jake Leizear | Oct 31, 2018 | Homepage
Today’s New York Times includes an opinion piece by philanthropist Hansjörg Wyss in which he pledges to donate $1 billion over the next decade to land and ocean conservation. Wyss is motivated by both the negative–the startling ongoing loss of...
by Jake Leizear | Oct 16, 2018 | Homepage
The Bay Journal reports The Conservation Fund and landowner Terrell Bowers confirmed last week that Bowers’ 250 acre property on Fones Cliffs is under contract for conservation. Bowers had approval to develop the property into 47 residential housing units and,...
by Jake Leizear | Oct 1, 2018 | Homepage
The Chesapeake Conservation Partnership is assembling success stories for a “State of Chesapeake Conservation” report–and we need your help! We are looking for your best conservation success stories of the last twelve months — the Chesapeake...
