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• Video: How Much Do Trees Help the Environment?

  Scripps News | April 20, 2023

  In this video, Deborah Landau, MDDC's director of ecological management, joins Scripps News to talk about the role trees play in storing carbon and why it's important to plant the right trees in the right place. 

• A Hot Take on Restoring Habitat

  Chesapeake Bay Program | April 12, 2023

  MD/DC Director of Ecological Management Deborah Landau is quoted about the chapter's use of fire as an ecological tool, highlighting a recent controlled burn at Nassawango Creek Preserve.

• Podcast: Not All Wildfires are Bad: How Controlled Burns Can be Medicine for the Land

  Good Together | March 22, 2023

  MD/DC Director of Ecological Management Deborah Landau talks to Brightly's Good Together podcast about returning fire to the landscape and shares five things to know about fire and controlled burns.

• Early Springs and Harsh Winters Are Hitting Many Parts of the U.S. Here’s Why.

  Grid | February 27, 2023

  MD/DC Director of Ecological Management Deborah Landau is quoted in this article about the impacts of an early spring, addressing how an unpredictable seasonal cycle can adversely affect plants, insects and pollinators.

• Early Spring Conditions: ‘Climate Change Playing Out in Real Time'

  The Guardian | February 24, 2023

  MD/DC Director of Ecological Management Deborah Landau is quoted in this article addressing the impacts that a climate-change-driven early spring may have on our food systems.

• Spring Rushes in Weeks Early as Winter Fizzles Across the US

  Bloomberg | February 17, 2023

  MD/DC Director of Ecological Management Deborah Landau is quoted in this article looking at the environmental impacts and disruptions of unseasonably warm weather.

• Program for Expanding Healthy Tree Canopy in Baltimore Gets Federal Funding

  Baltimore Fish Bowl | February 14, 2023

  The Healthy Trees Healthy Cities program has already put down roots in Baltimore's Turner Station, planting 140 trees in the neighborhood in November. New grant funding for monitoring the health of those trees will help ensure they mature and benefit the neighborhood—improving air quality and cooling down areas in hot summer months. TNC Baltimore Program Director Isaac Hametz is quoted in this article.

  Healthy Trees, Healthy Cities is a partnership between the US Forest Service and TNC that seeks to protect the health of our nation’s trees, forests and communities by engaging people in long-term tree monitoring and stewardship.

• Healthy Trees, Healthy Cities Program Coming to Baltimore

  Press Release | February 8, 2023

  The Nature Conservancy (TNC) announced today that Healthy Trees, Healthy Cities—a civic ecology program for monitoring urban forest health—will be launched in Baltimore thanks to funding secured through the 2023 federal budget.

  Healthy Trees, Healthy Cities is a partnership between the US Forest Service and TNC that seeks to protect the health of our nation’s trees, forests and communities by engaging people in long-term tree monitoring and stewardship.

  The $700,000 in funding was secured by Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen, who is a member of the Senate Appropriations committee and sits on the Interior and Environment subcommittee. The senator identified a need for federal investments in forests in the Chesapeake region that could benefit people and nature in the watershed.  TNC was consulted by the senator’s office for input on priority projects and encouraged to apply for federal funding through the US Forest Service’s State and Private Forestry program.

• Causal Impact of Fire on a Globally Rare Wetland Plant

  Fire Ecology | January 9, 2023

  The federally endangered Canby’s dropwort (Oxypolis canbyi) is found at only one site in Maryland. In a new article published in the journal Fire Ecology, MD/DC Director of Ecological Management Deborah Landau and Fire Manager Gabe Cahalan document the positive effects of reintroducing fire to the dropwort's habitat and the population increase following controlled burning.