Washington, DC – Today, the Chesapeake Conservancy applauded Congress for including $6 million in the Omnibus Spending Bill for fiscal year 2015 for land conservation along the Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail in Virginia.

Washington, DC – Today, the Chesapeake Conservancy commended the Senate passage of legislation containing provisions for the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park in Maryland and the Harriet Tubman National Historical Park in New York. The provisions are p

Annapolis, MD – Chesapeake Conservancy hosted its first annual Chesapeake Champions Dinner and Celebration on Tuesday, December 9, 2014, at the Governor Calvert House in Annapolis, MD.

Annapolis, MD – Chesapeake Conservancy will host its first annual Chesapeake Champions Dinner and Celebration on Tuesday, December 9, 2014, at the Governor Calvert House in Annapolis, MD.

Savannah, GA – Joanna Ogburn, director of programs for the Chesapeake Conservancy, will be a panelist at the preservationsSTORY session at the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s annual conference

Virginia Beach, VA - Chesapeake Conservancy, based in Annapolis, MD, today announced that the Chesapeake Climate Data Hackathon, which took place November 8-9, 2014, was a great success with significant progress

Washington, DC - Chesapeake Conservancy, based in Annapolis, MD, today announced that it is the host organization for The National Workshop on Large Landscape Conservation (NWLLC) in Washington, DC, Oct. 23-24, 2014 at the Ronald Reagan Building

King George, VA - Caledon State Park, located on the Potomac River’s Virginia shore just upstream from the Harry W. Nice Memorial Bridge (US 301), is the latest access point to the Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail.

Nanticoke, MD - A conservation proposal developed and coordinated by the Chesapeake Conservancy has been awarded $1 million by the Department of Defense to conserve land in the Nanticoke River corridor, a part of Naval Air Station Patuxent River’s Atlantic Test Range.

Annapolis, MD – The Maryland General Assembly today passed legislation (SB 336/HB 296) to expand Maryland’s Wildlands system by 50 percent, permanently protecting the wilderness character of 22,000 acres of sensitive State-owned l

Washington, DC - Joel Dunn, Executive Director of the Chesapeake Conservancy, joined prominent technology innovators and climate scientists at the White House today for the public launch of the Climate Data Initiative

Kent Island, MD - Chesapeake Conservancy’s very popular Osprey Cam, which was watched by more than 70,000 viewers from all 50 states and 113 countries last summer, is back online, with even-sharper resolution, in time to welcome osprey pair

Annapolis, MD - Today, the Chesapeake Conservancy applauded Maryland Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller, Jr., House Speaker Michael E. Busch, and the many delegates who are supporting the bills that would add almost 22,000 acres of state land to the Department of Natural Reso

Charles City, VA - Now you can learn even more about your local waterways with the newest addition to the Chesapeake Bay Interpretive Buoy System (CBIBS) family.

Lewisburg, PA - Chesapeake Conservancy joined with representatives of four leading Susquehanna River organizations on Friday, October 18th for a luncheon held by the president of Bucknell University, Dr. John Bravman

Baltimore, MD -  U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dan Ashe designated Masonville Cove in Baltimore as the nation’s first Urban Wildlife Refuge Partnership. In a press release announcing the new refuge, the USFWS noted 80 pe

Washington, DC - Chesapeake Conservancy today commended U.S. Congressman John Sarbanes (D. Md.) and ten cosponsors for introducing legislation to reauthorize The Chesapeake Gateways and Watertrails Network.

Kent Island - Ella Hofman, who will be a fourth grade student at Matapeake Elementary School on Kent Island this school year, won the Chesapeake Conservancy’s osprey coloring contest and its prize, a trip to visit the nest of To

Seaford, DE – A small property recently acquired by DNREC’s Division of Fish and Wildlife will make a big difference for kayakers and canoeists paddling and fishing Deep Creek near Seaford’s Concord Pond.

Gloucester, VA - Chesapeake Conservancy commended the Virginia Department of Historic Resources for their work to conserve Werowocomoco, the principal residence and headquarters of Powhatan, the Paramount Chief who united many of the Chesapeake’s tribes