by admin | Dec 9, 2020 | Lightning Update
Senator Paul Sarbanes, second from left, launching the first Chesapeake Gateways in 2000. By Jonathan Doherty Paul 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...
by admin | Dec 8, 2020 | Lightning Update
John Maounis, with his beloved wife Margaret Bursaw, early this year at Tomales Bay in California. By Jonathan Doherty John Maounis, former superintendent of the National Park Service Chesapeake Office, and original co-convener of the Chesapeake Conservation...
by admin | Oct 13, 2020 | Lightning Update
About seven years ago community residents began organizing to turn a decaying, abandoned park space into a new model community park in Baltimore. Find out more in this video.(Photo: Bernard C. Jack Young/Twitter) Over the past six months, Lightning Updates have...
by admin | Oct 7, 2020 | Lightning Update
“We Need to Talk: Conserving Land for Public Health, Equity, and Access to Nature” kicked off the Partnership’s 2020 Annual Meeting with a candid conversation among a distinguished group of professionals. We need to engage a new, intentionally inclusive...
by admin | Oct 1, 2020 | Lightning Update
Black American watermen dominated the oyster fleets in Virginia during the late 1800s. This photo was taken along the York River around 1900. (Photo: The Mariner’s Museum) Almost a year ago, we reported on the Chesapeake Conservation Partnership’s 2019...
