Lightning Updates
A Decade of Success; Priorities for the Future
Brent Leggs, Executive Director of the National Trust for Historic Preservation's African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund set an inspirational tone for the Chesapeake Conservation Partnership's 10th Annual Meeting, challenging the group to ramp up efforts to...
Now Accepting Applications for the Chesapeake Watershed Conservation Finance Workshop
Applications are open now for a Chesapeake Watershed Conservation Finance Intensive Workshop on December 16-18.Are you looking to access new sources of funding for land conservation deals? Do you require more complex funding and financing tools to achieve your land...
Study Confirms Habitat Connectivity is Key
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...
A Glimpse of Conservation History Along the Highway
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...
Quick Reports on Land Protection
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...
New Study Documents Staggering Loss of Birds
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...
Looking Back to Look Forward – 220 Million Trees Planted
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; ) It's...
Crowd-funding Land Conservation?
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...
Marking Milestones – A Major New Report
Historic Malvern Hill Farm is one of many recent land conservation success stories highlighted in the Chesapeake Conservation Partnership's major new report released today -- Marking Milestones: Progress in Conserving Land in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. (Photo:...
Changes to Mid-Atlantic Forests as Climate Warms
More than forty scientists and forest managers collaborated to assess the vulnerability of mid-Atlantic region forests to impacts from a changing climate.(Photo: Nicholas Tonelli at Susquehannock State Forest)The majority of the Chesapeake watershed is forested. And...
