Great Cypress Swamp

Delaware Wild Lands has protected and restored a nearly 200-acre tract of land found in their much larger Great Cypress Swamp (GCS). Overall efforts in the swamp have protected 10,000 acres on the Delmarva Peninsula already, and current efforts have restored the land...

Somerset and Wicomico Easements

The Lower Shore Land Trust recently placed easements on 2 properties on the eastern shore of Maryland. In Somerset County, LSLT protected ~65 acres in the Dividing Creek Rural Legacy Area. The area has historically been used for both agriculture and forestry,...

Campbell’s Bridge Mills

The Capital Region Land Conservancy (CRLC) recently acquired the Campbell’s Bridge Mills site and additional acres on the Appomattox River in the southern part of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. The main acquisition was completed in 2022, and efforts are ongoing to...
Virginia’s New Sentinel Landscape

Virginia’s New Sentinel Landscape

Joint Base Langley Eustis, anchor point of the Tidewater Sentinel Landscape Written by Mike Bonnell In a recent monumental win for collaborative conservation in the Chesapeake Bay, the Sentinel Landscapes Partnership announced the establishment of new Sentinel...
Chesapeake WILD: Looking Forward

Chesapeake WILD: Looking Forward

The new Chesapeake WILD Logo Written by Mike Bonnell This year US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS or Service) joined Chesapeake Conservancy and National Park Service as co-conveners of the Chesapeake Conservation Partnership (CCP). As part of this enhanced partnership,...