Places We Protect

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Wetipquin Pond Dorchester Pond Otwell Woodlands Ranck Woods Third Haven Woods Crescent Preserve Nanjemoy Creek Hellen Creek Hemlock Preserve Battle Creek Cypress Swamp Pilot Serpentine Barren Little Catoctin Highland Glades Oldtown Shale Barren Selinger Marsh Fort Hill Finzel Swamp Wolf Swamp Crabtree Cave The Glades Hammel Glade John Friend Cave Nassawango Creek Nanticoke River Robinson Neck/Frank M. Ewing Preserve Choptank Wetlands Bear Island Sideling Hill Creek Cranesville Swamp


Central Appalachian Forest Ecoregion
1. Cranesville Swamp
2. John Friend Cave
3. Hammel Glade
4. The Glades
5. Crabtree Cave
6. Wolf Swamp
7. Finzel Swamp
8. Fort Hill
10. Oldtown Shale Barren
12. Little Catoctin Highland Glade
   
Allegany Forests Project
9. Selinger Marsh
11. Sideling Hill Creek

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The Conservancy has helped wetlands return to Jackson Lane Preserve on the Delmarva Peninsula. See how the Maryland chapter is tackling our largest wetlands restoration project yet in this slideshow.

Lower New England/Northern Piedmont Ecoregion
13. Bear Island
14. Pilot Serpentine Barren
 
Chesapeake Bay Lowlands Ecoregion
Chesapeake Bay
15. Battle Creek Cypress Swamp
16. Hellen Creek Hemlock Preserve
17. Nanjemoy Creek
18. Crescent Preserve (including Jackson Lane, Baltimore Corner, Persimmon Pond, and other preserves)
19. Third Haven Woods
20. Ranck Woods
21. Otwell Woodlands
22. Choptank Wetlands
23. Dorchester Pond
24. Frank M. Ewing/Robinson Neck
25. Wetipquin Pond
26. Nanticoke River
27. Nassawango Creek
    Foster Tract