by Kelsey Everett | Mar 31, 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. success.chesapeakeconservation.org In this time when so many conservationists are...
by Kelsey Everett | Mar 30, 2020 | Monday Magic
Ospreys have returned to Chesapeake waters to breed. This one, photographed last week in the mid-bay region is already collecting sticks as nets-building material. (Photos: Clandestine Wren Photography) This is the second in our new Monday series that simply takes a...
by Kelsey Everett | Mar 24, 2020 | Lightning Update
As this is written, we are all directly experiencing one of the impacts of habitat destruction from human development. That’s not the focus of coverage you are reading in most media right now. But it is the well-founded conclusion of a growing body of...
by Kelsey Everett | Mar 23, 2020 | Monday Magic
Tundra Swans leaving the Chesapeake and heading north to Alaska. (Images: Clandestine Wren Photography) This month, Tundra Swans are leaving the Chesapeake and heading back to northern Alaska to breed. After spending the winter here, they have a 4,200 mile flight...
by Kelsey Everett | Mar 18, 2020 | Lightning Update
Canvasback ducks afllight in the Chesapeake watershed, just a few weeks before they all head north to breed. (All images in this Lightning Update: Clandestine Wren Photography) In the face of concerning and constant news about Covid-19, the daily routine, or in our...
by Kelsey Everett | Mar 10, 2020 | Lightning Update
Flooding is an increasing problem in communities around the Chesapeake watershed. As storms become more intense and sea level rises, cities and their residents face serious challenges. Few communities are closer to the problem than those at the mouth of the Bay, in...
by Kelsey Everett | Mar 3, 2020 | Lightning Update
Fossil fuel extraction has dramatically affected our landscape for well over a century. With the press of climate change, converting to renewable energy sources is essential. That process is underway and conservationists are working to advance it while ensuring key...
by Kelsey Everett | Feb 25, 2020 | Lightning Update
The Chesapeake Conservation Partnership is committed to engaging an inclusive, new generation of conservationists, and to protecting lands important to communities historically underrepresented in land conservation. So, when we see examples of how protected lands...
by Kelsey Everett | Feb 20, 2020 | Lightning Update
Here are two very quick ways you can help draw more attention to the Chesapeake Conservation Partnership — and they shouldn’t take more than a minute! First, we started a Chesapeake Conservation Partnership page on Facebook to share our news and stories...
by Kelsey Everett | Feb 18, 2020 | Lightning Update
Pennsylvania has focused regional collaboration around large Conservation Landscapes since 2004. All, or significant portions, of five of these landscapes are within the Chesapeake Bay watershed. The Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources...
