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• First forest carbon program for small landowners opens in Maryland

  Cumberland Times-News | November 17, 2021

  MD/DC Executive Director Tim Purinton and Resiilent Forests Program Director Donnelle Keech are quoted in this article about the expansion of the Family Forest Carbon Program into Western Maryland. Created in partnership between the American Forest Foundation and TNC, the Family Forest Carbon Program offers long-term resources for small landowners who want to improve their land’s wildlife habitat and water quality while growing mature trees and increasing carbon storage in their landscape.

• Outdoors Maryland: Feel the Burn

  Outdoors Maryland | November 9, 2021

  In this episode, Maryland Public Television takes viewers behind the fire lines to discover how TNC is using controlled burning as a tool for forest conservation and restoration in Western Maryland. Segment begins at 14:43.

• Family Forest Carbon Program Opens Enrollment Across PA, WV and MD

  Family Forest Blog | October 20, 2021

  MD/DC Executive Director Tim Purinton is quoted in this announcement of the Family Forest Carbon Program's expansion in Western Maryland. Created in partnership between the American Forest Foundation and TNC, the Family Forest Carbon Program offers long-term resources for small landowners who want to improve their land’s wildlife habitat and water quality while growing mature trees and increasing carbon storage in their landscape.

• Native Plants in the Cutting Garden (Part One)

  Slow Flowers Journal | October 12, 2021

  MD/DC's Director of Land Conservation Deborah Barber is an avid gardener. In this new blog for Slow Flowers Journal, she shares her passion for native plants and her "attitude of gratitude" that her garden provides enough for everyone—pollinators, birds, insects and the occasional nibbly chipmunk and rabbit.

• Federal grant seeks to protect valuable Eastern Shore marshland

  Delmarva Now | October 6, 2021

  MD/DC Land Protection Director Elizabeth Carter is quoted in this article about a $1.5 million award earmarked to support phase one of the Middle Chesapeake Sentinel Landscape Resilience project, which will focus on protecting land within "highly resilient" marsh migration areas.

  TNC is one of several partners in the grant, including The Conservation Fund, Ducks Unlimited, Maryland Department of Natural Resources, the U.S. Navy, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

• Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge Has Acquired 870 Acres From TNC Since 2016

  Press Release | September 8, 2012

  With the recent acquisition of 150 acres this year, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has acquired a total of 870 acres of land for the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge from The Nature Conservancy as space for local marshes to migrate to as sea-levels rise, critical to protecting bird habitat, water quality and shorelines. 

• How Small Gardens Can Change the World with Native Plants

  The Beginner's Garden podcast | September 7, 2021

  MD/DC Conservation Ecologist Deborah Landau joins The Beginner's Garden podcast to talk about the positive impacts that native plants can have in our gardens and landscaping.

• Conservation opportunity: A new focus on leased farmland

  Bay Journal | September 7, 2021

  Maryland/DC Agriculture Program Director Amy Jacobs is quoted in this article highlighting efforts by a coalition of organizations including TNC to encourage non-operating landowners to embrace and support best management practices on their client farms—with the goal of improving water quality in the Chesapeake Bay.