by admin | Apr 5, 2022 | Lightning Update
Pissacoack (Photo Credit: Jeffrey Allenby, Chesapeake Conservancy) On April 1, 2022, joined by Department of the Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, the Rappahannock Tribe of Virginia celebrated a milestone in their centuries-long quest to return to their homeland along...
by admin | Mar 21, 2022 | Lightning Update
Susquehanna River, Asylum Township, Bradford County, as seen from Marie Antoinette Overlook along US Route 6 (Photo by Nicholas A. Tonelli). For thousands of years human survival depended on the ability to look over the landscape and identify where to hunt, gather,...
by admin | Mar 8, 2022 | Lightning Update
Image: Marking Milestones, CCP, (Nicholas A. Tonelli) Voluntary carbon offset programs are growing dramatically, driven by corporate net-zero pledges and increasing interest in carbon offsets to achieve Paris climate goals.1 Conservation, restoration and management of...
by admin | Feb 22, 2022 | Lightning Update
A group of African Americans pose aboard the bugeye Thomas Blades in the harbor of St. Michaels, Maryland, c. 1910. Image courtesy gift of Mary V. Thomas to the collection of Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum. Our sense of belonging is often tied as much to a physical...
by admin | Feb 8, 2022 | Lightning Update
Image courtesy of Virginia Working Landscape Land use and biodiversity – can we have our cake and eat it too? Yes, these can indeed be compatible. Smithsonian scientists are collaborating with multiple partners, including landowners, to embrace grassroots approaches...
by admin | Jan 25, 2022 | Lightning Update
John Griffin & Warren Brown 2022 is likely to be an unpredictable year during the General Assembly Sessions in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia for similar and distinct reasons. This is an election year in PA and MD. The Governors of both of these states are...
