Our Land, Our Heritage, Our Future
Land conservation successes and challenges in the Chesapeake watershed present an international example of how communities can use innovative science, partnerships, and finance to achieve ambitious conservation goals.
A year ago we shared an update on local and state conservation ballot measures results from the 2018 elections when over $3.2 billion in funding was approved by voters around the nation. Now comes a new study exploring factors that influence the likelihood of these...
The Chesapeake watershed is composed of dozens of significant regional landscapes, many of them iconic and broadly known. The Delmarva peninsula is one of those, the rural and natural lands squeezed between the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic. Congressman Wayne...
Last week the USDA Forest Service and conservation partners announced addition of a 4,644.5 acre property to the George Washington and Jefferson National Forests. The land in Botetourt County, Virginia helps protect the headwaters of the James River, a tributary of...
Seventy percent of Chesapeake Bay watershed residents live within urban areas. As we think about how we connect urban residents with land conservation--or rather, how we ensure land conservation is relevant and addressing the needs of urban residents--it's worth...
Over sixty-five members of the Chesapeake Conservation Partnership gathered this week for the Partnership's tenth Annual Meeting at the National Conservation Center in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. A decade after first coming...
How can you quickly find how much land is protected within a county? Or a watershed? Or find out what the make-up of that protected land is – how much is owned by a particular type of owner; or how much is forested?We’ve got an...
