Hosted by the Chesapeake Bay Program, Annapolis, MD
Tracking land protection in the Chesapeake Bay watershed is crucial for understanding successes and challenges associated with many Chesapeake Bay Program goals and outcomes. However, we have been unable to describe trends in the protection of vital habitats and resources due to the lack of a “time stamp” associated with individual land conservation activities. The Fellow will (1) do research and analysis on records of federally protected lands to identify when land became protected which may include going through physical documents such as deeds and property records at different locations around the watershed, (2) work with Federal partners to improve the historic and ongoing changes of attributes to Federally protected lands, (3) create maps to show trends in federally protected lands and (4) develop communication tools on best practices to share with the Chesapeake Bay Program partnership.
