by Kelsey Everett | Nov 13, 2019 | Lightning Update
The Chesapeake watershed is composed of dozens of significant regional landscapes, many of them iconic and broadly known. The Delmarva peninsula is one of those, the rural and natural lands squeezed between the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic. Congressman Wayne...
by Kelsey Everett | Nov 6, 2019 | Lightning Update
Last week the USDA Forest Service and conservation partners announced addition of a 4,644.5 acre property to the George Washington and Jefferson National Forests. The land in Botetourt County, Virginia helps protect the headwaters of the James River, a tributary of...
by Kelsey Everett | Oct 29, 2019 | Lightning Update
Seventy percent of Chesapeake Bay watershed residents live within urban areas. As we think about how we connect urban residents with land conservation–or rather, how we ensure land conservation is relevant and addressing the needs of urban...
by Kelsey Everett | Oct 24, 2019 | Lightning Update
Over sixty-five members of the Chesapeake Conservation Partnership gathered this week for the Partnership’s tenth Annual Meeting at the National Conservation Center in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. A decade after first coming together to explore actions for...
by Kelsey Everett | Oct 15, 2019 | Lightning Update
How can you quickly find how much land is protected within a county? Or a watershed? Or find out what the make-up of that protected land is – how much is owned by a particular type of owner; or how much is forested?We’ve got an updated tool for that! LandScope...
