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COMMON GROUND VOL. 14 NO . 1 JANUARY-MARCH 2O03 ' A Maryland, Chesapeake Bay Protection Expands ® The Conservation Fund has completed legacy area, easements on 16 farms covering 100 land preservation projects in Maryland 4,500 acres have been acquired, including that have protected more than 100,000 acres . 16 miles of undeveloped shoreline in the In reaching the milestone, the Fund an- Chincoteague Bay area . The easements are nounced a new Chesapeake Bay Initiative, held by the Lower Shore Land Trust and the which will protect an additional 100,000 Maryland Environmental Trust. acres in the bay watershed by 2010 . The The Fund 100th project, the protection of 687 acres in ® More than 25,000 acres of working forest the Nanticoke River watershed, is part of the and wildlife habitat in southern Maryland announced a new state' s Rural Legacy Program, which irate- and its Eastern Shore will be protected un- Chesapeake Bay grates smart conservation with smart devel- der a purchase by The Conservation Fund, Initiative, which opment . In conjunction with the acquisition, together with its partners, Glatfelter Corp . , the Fund is working with the community of the state of Maryland and the Forestland will protect an Vienna to create a mc� � LLt phai f-iiat fasters Group . Under the agreement, the Forestland additional 100, 000 growth while preserving the town ' s charac- Group will purchase 21 ,766 acres of acres in the bay ter . The plan, which will conserve natural Glatfelter' s forestland subject to a conserva- areas and support the town' s ecotourism, is tion easement purchased by the state, which watershed by a model for future projects of the Fund ' s will ensure that sustainable forest practices 2010 . Center for Conservation and Development. are used . The Fund will acquire the remain- ing acreage from Glatfelter for transfer to the ® Maryland, Worcester County and The state for permanent protection. Conservation Fund are nearing the one= third point in their 10-year effort to preserve ® Matching funds from Bass Pro Shops and 15,400 acres of farmland to create a 70,000- the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation acre swath of land linking E . A . Vaughn Wild- recently helped former Conservation Fund life Management Area and Pocomoke State president John Turner raise $ 100,000 for land Forest . Using $5 million in grants from the projects in the Chesapeake Bay Conservation state ' s Rural Legacy Program, the Fund as- Challenge . Turner, an assistant secretary at sisted the county in securing nine easements the State Department, celebrated his 60th in 2002 and 16 overall in the 4-year history of birthday by running in his first marathon in the project ift the Coastal Bay Rural Legacy Arlington, Va . , on Oct. 28 and soliciting do- Area . The coastal bays are part of the Envi- nations for the challenge . As president of the ronmental Protection Agency's National Fund ( 1993-2001 ) , he was the architect of the Estuary Program and fall within the Atlantic Chesapeake Bay Challenge, which has raised Flyway, one of four key migratory bird $400,000 for conservation projects in Virginia, routes in the United States . Within the rural Maryland and Pennsylvania . T8TS - 8LZLZ ON ' HE) nudOSSIIIH T8T8 XOS Od id IG \d 3SNOD SI \i '8 \d ! AN I AiD ; JN ` \dO �d V1J � �I ICI � IDNViS GIAVC \dW � � 19i � � � 9i1i � 11 � l � 1111 � 11 � � � 1 ! ! 1 ' ll � l � lli � lil � � l � 91 � III � � I �JIi � 60ZZZ VA ` uo1nutllV �'a ' NaI �Nlxsdnn OZIZ almS ` IS lu9N . N 0021 Etr6E 'ON 1ID \dHd ROVISOd 0sTI - - 40NO 11.40'dd - NON