by Jonathan Doherty | May 19, 2020 | Lightning Update
The land of and around cities has changed before. How will it change in the future? Images: Left – A recreation of Manhattan Island c. 1609 (Markley Boyer/The Mannahatta Project, via Wildlife Conservation Society, via New York Times); Right – 21st century...
by Jonathan Doherty | May 18, 2020 | Monday Magic
The world feels upside down. Our lives, as well. We search for normalcy, but cannot find it. We desire plans for the future — anticipation of good things to come — but cannot see when those plans will ripen. Some of us just seek to get by. One day to the...
by Jonathan Doherty | May 12, 2020 | Lightning Update
The use and nature of public open space is already changing. Where will it go? How will it evolve? What do we need to do to make it more available and equitable? (Photo: CCP/Doherty) The global pandemic has almost instantly impacted public open space. Both for good...
by Jonathan Doherty | May 11, 2020 | Monday Magic
What’s right outside the window in a suburban yard? The year-round resident bird species might be more than you expect. But, now the magic is expanding dramatically as new migrants arrive daily. (Photos: clandestinewren photography) In the recurring theme of...
by Jonathan Doherty | May 5, 2020 | Lightning Update
Let’s start with this. It’s remarkable and it feels good. It’s a 5 minute reminder of how much is often unseen. And for conservationists like us, it’s a sign of the wildlife corridors all around, even at this micro scale. (Filmed in...
by Jonathan Doherty | May 4, 2020 | Monday Magic
You might easily pass it by. Just another tree along a trail in your county park. But, thirty feet above the ground someone naps through the day. (Photos: clandestinewren photography) It’s continuously astonishing how much goes on around us that we don’t...
by Jonathan Doherty | Apr 28, 2020 | Lightning Update
What’s happening now is big. Bigger than most of us have ever experienced. It will cause dramatic change. The question is: how do we respond, and how do we advance conservation that benefits all? (Illustration: UK News-Observer/Chris Ridell) This is the time for...
by Jonathan Doherty | Apr 27, 2020 | Monday Magic
It often happens on a spring day like this, cool and crisp. A weather front has moved through and the skies have brightened. There is a feeling of renewal in the air. And the trees are alive with magic. (Photos: top, CCP/Doherty; warblers, clandestinewren photography;...
by Jonathan Doherty | Apr 24, 2020 | Lightning Update
Fifty years ago, Walter Cronkite, the “most trusted man in America'” summarized the first Earth Day in a two minute commentary that seems both remarkable and relevant today. It’s well worth watching. This week we commemorate history — the 50th...
by Jonathan Doherty | Apr 20, 2020 | Monday Magic
Our local parks and preserves are coming to life. And a lot of it is happening on the forest floor. Spring beauties are re-emerging in abundance in many places. (Photos: CCP/Doherty) A relatively cool April is making some of the Chesapeake magic last! And the...
