As students of land conservation history in Maryland know, the legacy of the Nature Conservancy on the Delmarva Peninsula is both significant and extensive. From the early days under local Steve Hamlin’s leadership as its first state director in the 1980s, to the present, the TNC -Maryland/DC chapter has played a critical role in the long-term effort to protect the Eastern Shore’s vast Pocomoke River Watershed. And more recently, the country’s largest land conservation organization added to that remarkable legacy with the addition of the 700 acre Taylor Farm in the Nassawango Headwaters.
Perhaps less noticed is that TNC has just opened up an office in the bustling new Eastern Shore Conservation Center on Washington Street in Easton to join several other nonprofit environmental organizations committed to protecting the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem.
The Spy caught up with Amy Jacobs, TNC’s watershed restoration director for the state, to find out more about what TNC is doing now and how she sees the future of biodiversity on the Eastern Shore.
This video is approximately eight minutes in length
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