by admin | Sep 30, 2019 | Lightning Update
A new study released last week documents one of the largest ever, long-term habitat connectivity experiments. The findings show clear, persistent benefits in maintaining species biodiversity. (Image: Washington Post) The importance of connecting isolated blocks of...
by admin | Sep 23, 2019 | Lightning Update
A new historical marker was dedicated last month in Goochland County, Virginia, marking the first donation of a conservation easement to the Virginia Outdoors Foundation — 51 years ago in 1968. (Image: Parker Agelasto) So who among us has seen historical markers...
by admin | Sep 23, 2019 | Lightning Update
LandScope Chesapeake provides a map reports tool that quickly summarizes a variety of land protection information for jurisdictions and watersheds in the Chesapeake Bay watershed.(Image: LandScope Chesapeake) How can you quickly find how much land is protected within...
by admin | Sep 23, 2019 | Lightning Update
A new comprehensive study documents an enormous loss of birds across North America. Past conservation efforts havebrought ducks and geese back from the brink. Conservation leaders call for similar bold landscape-scale initiatives tosustain the ecosystems on which...
by admin | Sep 16, 2019 | Lightning Update
Between 1934 and 1942, the federal government planted 220 million trees in “shelterbelts” in the Great Plains to address the environmental crisis of the Dust Bowl. (Photos: Kansas Historical Society; USDA Forests Service, Wikimedia Commons; The Oklahoman;...
by admin | Sep 9, 2019 | Lightning Update
BC Parks Foundation raised $3 million via crowd-funding to protect 2,000 acres in British Columbia. (Photo: BC Parks Foundation) Is crowd-funding a viable strategy for raising funds to protect land? Canadians seem to make the case that it can be. The BC Parks...
