by admin | Mar 30, 2020 | Lightning Update
We’re launching a new platform for profiling and promoting Chesapeake conservation success stories. Help us build it out and promote your organization and conservation work. In this time when so many conservationists are constrained from working in the way we...
by admin | Mar 23, 2020 | Lightning Update
“Logging and other habitat disruption creates new opportunities for disease organisms to move from non human animals to people.” (Photo: euflegtredd via Flickr licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) As this is written, we are all directly experiencing one of the...
by admin | Mar 16, 2020 | Lightning Update
Canvasback ducks afllight in the Chesapeake watershed, just a few weeks before they all head north to breed. (All images in thisLightning Update: Clandestine Wren Photography) In the face of concerning and constant news about Covid-19, the daily routine, or in our...
by admin | Mar 9, 2020 | Lightning Update
Norfolk, Virginia is at the forefront of facing rising sea level, as “nuisance flooding” (image below) is becoming ever more frequent. The city’s Vision 2100 Plan (map above) addresses coastal flooding head on. (Map: Norfolk; Photo: Skip Stiles) A...
by admin | Mar 2, 2020 | Lightning Update
Everybody’s favorite place for siting solar panels — making use of already developed land. In this case, the roof of a mall in Frederick MD. But look at all that additional space over the parking lots! (Image: solarbuildermag.com) Fossil fuel extraction...
by admin | Feb 24, 2020 | Lightning Update
A compelling new short video — Twenty & Odd — explores the trauma, resilience, and beauty of the African American experience in our country through the lens of sites protected by the National Park Service. (Image: NPS) The Chesapeake Conservation...
