© From "The C&O Canal" by Dorothy Camagna

Deal Island Wildlife Management Area, MD

Thanks in part to support from Richard King Mellon Foundation, the salt marshes of southeastern Maryland’s Deal Island Wildlife Management Area serve as a winter haven for blue-winged teal, pintails and wigeons, and a year-round home for blue crab. In 2005 the Fund and the state’s department of natural resources secured a conservation easement on 444 acres of coastal forests and marshland along Deal Island’s Saint Peter’s Creek and Butler’s Cove.

Regional Scorecard -

Mid-Atlantic


Acres Protected: 317,069
Fair Market Value: $589,751,436
Acquisition Cost: $434,248,541
Total Acres Conserved Since 1985: 317,069
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A Goodly Bay Rediscovered, Washington Post (4/23)

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