Our Land, Our Heritage,
Our Future
How many birds are killed by vehicles along a single stretch of rural highway? (Photos: above -- Janet Griffin/Shutterstock; below -- Jay Falstad)From time to time, these updates share information that may not be the best of news, but does shed light on the importance...
Under the U.S. Capitol dome. (All photos: J. Doherty; drawing: Architect of the Capitol)By Wendy O'Sullivan & Jonathan DohertyMany are still processing what happened to our nation last week and trying to understand what comes next. We are also. What is clear is the...
Senator Paul Sarbanes, second from left, launching the first Chesapeake Gateways in 2000.By Jonathan DohertyPaul S. Sarbanes, United States Senator from Maryland from 1977 to 2007, died on December 6. Much is already being written about this effective, kind, and...
John Maounis, with his beloved wife Margaret Bursaw, early this year at Tomales Bay in California.By Jonathan DohertyJohn Maounis, former superintendent of the National Park Service Chesapeake Office, and original co-convener of the Chesapeake Conservation...
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 Pennsylvania over the course of a...
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...
In the face of overwhelmingly bad news, knowing what, when and how to communicate about our land conservation missions is challenging. Here are some suggestions. How do we communicate about land conservation with lives at risk, routine activity upended, and the...
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.In this time when so many conservationists are constrained from working in the way we normally...
"Logging and other habitat disruption creates new opportunities for disease organisms to move from non human animals to people." (Photo: euflegtredd via Flickr licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) As this is written, we are all directly experiencing one of the impacts of...
