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...
by Jake Leizear | Sep 25, 2018 | Homepage
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is proposing a new rule that would have a significant negative impact on land conservation, especially in Virginia. The proposal would change past IRS guidance and treat all state tax credits issued for a donation as quid pro quo...
by Jake Leizear | Sep 20, 2018 | Homepage
Every year Chesapeake organizations and public agencies sponsor photo contests challenging the public to capture the most compelling images of public lands, wildlife and special places. The results are pretty spectacular. Here’s a sampling of a few of this...
by Jake Leizear | Sep 17, 2018 | Homepage
The Maryland Department of Natural Resources recently announced $25 million in Rural Legacy Program grants and the creation of new and expanded Rural Legacy Areas. Maryland’s Rural Legacy Program “provides funding to preserve large, contiguous tracts of...
by Jake Leizear | Sep 4, 2018 | Homepage
The Network for Landscape Conservation just issued a new report — Pathways Forward: Progress and Priorities in Landscape Conservation. It’s well worth reading. Here in the Chesapeake watershed, we have working at landscape scales for years — the...
