Lightning Updates
Exploring Private Capital Investment in Conservation
A cross section of private investment companies, private restoration companies, and the Chesapeake region's land conservation community explore the potential for private capital to support land conservation, last week in Baltimore. (Photo: Alliance for the Chesapeake...
Protect Thirty Percent by 2030
A group of scientists recently published a science driven plan for saving the abundance and diversity of life on earth in the face of climate change. (Photo: NASA Goddard)With every passing month, there is mounting concern about the need for protecting more of the...
Agrihoods and More
Demand for local foods has fueled new trends in the connection between farming and real estate. Among them are a number of planned communities designed around a local farm. (Photo: Willowsford Conservancy)There are all sorts of factors influencing agriculture these...
President Signs Major Public Lands Bill
The Susquehanna National Heritage Area is one of the new designations established when the President signed the John D. Dingell Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act.(Photo: Susquehanna Heritage)By Jonathan DohertyOn Tuesday, March 12, President Trump...
Communicating About Conservation Values
Members of Virginia's land trust and conservation community work on communications and messaging techniques last week at a training sponsored by Virginia's United Land Trusts and the Partnership.By Jonathan DohertyLand trusts and conservationists gathered last week in...
Communicating About Conservation Values
Land trusts and conservationists gathered last week in Virginia to work on communications and messaging strategies for talking about land protection. Participants explored a narrative around which unified and tailored messaging can be built, learned the formula for...
Permit for Disputed James River Power Line Revoked
In a big win for conservationists, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has vacated the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' permit for the Surry-Skiffes Creek transmission line across the James River.By Jonathan DohertyFor years, a broad coalition of...
Governor Wolf Proposes Restore Pennsylvania Fund
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf discusses the Restore Pennsylvania proposal with DCNR Secretary Cindy Adams Dunn and others. Restore Pennsylvania would dedicate $4.5 billion over four years to critical infrastructure, including green infrastructure. (Photo:...
Conserving Land, Square Foot by Square Foot
The site of a former telephone switching station and cable yard, now Crispus Attucks Park and the focus of a recent conservation easement acquired by Casey Trees. (Photo: Dave Harp for Bay Journal) We almost always talk of land conservation goals in terms of acres,...
Senate Passes Major Conservation Bill
The U.S. Senate passed a large conservation bill Tuesday which would permanently reauthorize the Land and Water Conservation Fund, expand wilderness, and protect parks.On Tuesday, the U.S. Senate passed the "Natural Resources Protection Act", touted as the biggest...
