by admin | Dec 31, 2014 | Lightning Update
The end of 2014 brought good news for land conservation and public access in the Chesapeake in the form of two significant spending bills passed by Congress. The new legislation includes funding for sites along the Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic...
by admin | Dec 8, 2014 | Lightning Update
Stakeholders from across the Delmarva peninsula converged at the historic Tidewater Inn in Easton on November 20th for a conversation about the future of agriculture on the shore. In the welcoming address American Farmland Trust President Andrew McElwaine...
by admin | Oct 16, 2014 | Lightning Update
The Susquehanna Gateway Heritage Area (SGHA) is a designated Pennsylvania Heritage Area serving Lancaster and York Counties. SGHA’s special focus is the Susquehanna River, with a mission to enhance quality of life and economic vitality by promoting preservation,...
by admin | Oct 8, 2014 | Lightning Update
Users of the LandScope Chesapeake system will now enjoy a sleeker, faster, more modern user interface with a host of upgrades. This free, publicly accessible web application enables decision-makers, practitioners, and citizens within the Chesapeake Bay watershed to...
by admin | Sep 2, 2014 | Lightning Update
In upstate New York, from Otsego Lake at Cooperstown to the rolling hills and farmlands near Corning and Elmira, people treasure a rural landscape at the headwaters of the Susquehanna River. A bit south and west of there, visitors travel to the Pennsylvania Wilds, a...
by admin | Aug 6, 2014 | Lightning Update
A conservation proposal developed and coordinated by the Chesapeake Conservancy has been awarded $1 million by the Department of Defense to conserve land in the Nanticoke River corridor, a part of Naval Air Station Patuxent River’s Atlantic Test Range. The award was...
