Lightning Updates
Addressing Urban Park Equity & More
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...
Public Health, Equity, Conservation & the Partnership’s 2020 Annual Meeting
"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 generation of...
Major New Project to Document African American Sites & Landscapes in Watershed
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 Annual Meeting...
Weigh in on a New Public Health Goal
Access to the water, parks, green space, healthy foods, and more are all related to land conservation. And all among the many components of public health. (Photos (clockwise from top left): MDDNR; Google Maps; Doherty) The connections between land conservation and...
Want to Buy a Flooding Risk?
Realtor.com is now displaying two different indicators for flooding risk for all properties.Last week Realtor.com began displaying flood hazard information for each of the 110 million homes currently listed on its site. It is the only major on-line real estate listing...
Redline Heat
Groundwork RVA, a community-based non-profit in Richmond, Virginia, is working to build climate safe neighborhoods in communities where the ramifications of historic redlining are still ubiquitous. (Image: Groundwork RVA) It’s summer. It’s hot. But it’s more than just...
Farms Under Threat
A 2020 report by the American Farmland Trust assesses farmland preservation policies by state and sets out a call to action to strengthen them. (All graphics: Farms Under Threat/AFT) Recently Lightning Update explored implications of the pandemic on farming in part 1...
Redressing Land Wrongs
In 1910, Black farmers owned about 15 million acres of farmland in the U.S. That amount has declined dramatically due to a variety of discriminatory practices, one of many "land wrongs."(Photo: Black farmers in the Gravel Hill area of Henrico County, Virginia; from...
Farms Amidst the Pandemic, Part 2
Farming is a big part of the landscape and a big share of Chesapeake land conservation. This week we explore the reality or potential of regional food distribution systems for supporting farmers. (Photo: CCP) Chesapeake conservationists spend a lot of resources...
Farms Amidst the Pandemic, Part 1
Masked up shoppers at the Anne Arundel County Farmer's Market in Annapolis (above), and apparently at other markets, have driven sales higher for a number of Chesapeake farmers during the pandemic. (Photos: above and first two below -- Doherty; others -- Agriberry)...
