by admin | Sep 17, 2018 | Lightning Update
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 admin | Sep 4, 2018 | Lightning Update
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...
by admin | Aug 27, 2018 | Lightning Update
The Maryland Department of Natural Resources announced last week it will acquire a new wildlife management area in Queen Anne’s County on the upper Eastern Shore. The 1,172 acre property will support habitat conservation and outdoor recreation. “This acquisition...
by admin | Aug 23, 2018 | Lightning Update
State parks in Chesapeake states are attracting more and more visitors. A number of parks actually fill up early on many summer days and have to turn people away. Virginia state parks reported a record level of over ten million visitors in 2016. Pennsylvania state...
by admin | Aug 15, 2018 | Lightning Update
The Council on Environmental Quality has announced that procedures for carrying out theNational Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) will be updated. Public comments are invited on the proposed review through Monday, August 20. Since 1970, this Act has been the cornerstone...
by admin | Aug 14, 2018 | Lightning Update
It’s often difficult to grasp broader patterns of land use on a landscape. And yet we need to understand — and communicate — how much land is being used for what general function. It’s perhaps even harder to do this when looking at the lower 48...
