Maryland

Baltimore County: Agricultural Preservation and Water Quality

The Conservation Fund completed an analysis of the County’s existing agricultural land preservation program and determined that their existing 80,000-acre goal was reasonable and could be achieved in less time using optimization tools in their decision making process.  Read more>

Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, MD

In more than a decade, The Conservation Fund, working with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the State of Maryland, has acquired more than 6,800 acres in almost 20 separate transactions to establish and expand the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge.  Read more>

Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail

The Chesapeake Bay community is celebrating the 400th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown and Captain John Smith’s monumental exploration of the Chesapeake Bay region by establishing the Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail.   Read more>

Catoctin Mountain, MD

Through Maryland’s GreenPrint Program, the Fund acquired more than 500 acres near Cunningham Falls State Park, just north of Catoctin Mountain National Park and close to Camp David.  Read more>

Cecil County: Mapping Maryland’s Green Infrastructure

The Conservation Fund’s Strategic Conservation Program recently completed the Cecil County Green Infrastructure Plan, which offers guidance for steering the county’s future growth and protecting lands that serve as green infrastructure.  Read more>

Chesapeake Bay Initiative, MD

Focusing on the top conservation priorities of Maryland, Virginia, and Pennsylvania, The Conservation Fund has developed a strategic plan for land preservation along the Bay's river systems. Through its new Rivers to the Chesapeake Initiative, the Fund will work to protect the most important land and water within the Chesapeake Bay watershed.  Read more>

Civil War Battlefield Conservation, MD

The Conservation Fund's Civil War Battlefield Campaign works in partnerships to protect our nation's hallowed ground, to provide comprehensive information on the 384 principal Civil War battlefields, designated by the Civil War Sites Advisory Commission, and to honor those that fought and died in the war.   Read more>

Deal Island Wildlife Management Area, MD

In 2005 the Fund worked with its partners to secure a conservation easement on 444 acres of coastal forests and marshland in southeastern Maryland's Deal Island Wildlife Management Area.   Read more>

Nanticoke River Watershed, MD

As a lead partner in Maryland’s Rural Legacy Program, the Fund is preserving sensitive shoreline, wildlife habitat and an agricultural way of life along the Nanticoke River and the state’s fragile coastal bays.  Read more>

Rural Legacy Program, MD

As a lead partner in Maryland's Rural Legacy Program, the Fund is working with state and local partners to conserve a 15,400-acre area as a working landscape.  Read more>