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 Protecting Land Forever!
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 Partners Conserve 281 Acres in Dorchester County
Maryland Environmental Trust (MET) is pleased to announce that another 281 acres of Dorchester County are protected forever. Russell Baker conveyed a conservation easement to MET, the Eastern Shore Land Conservancy, and the US Navy. This new easement property protects important farmland, forest, and wetlands along the Transquaking River. The protected property contains more than 11,000 linear feet of stream channels and shoreline. Thanks to our partners and Mr. Baker!
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 Keep Maryland Beautiful Grant Program is Open
Maryland Environmental Trust, a unit of the Department of Natural Resources, the Department of Transportation, the Department of Agriculture, and the Chesapeake Bay Trust, are partnering to accept applications for this year’s Keep Maryland Beautiful Grants program.
These grants are offered annually to volunteer groups, nonprofit organizations, communities, and land trusts in Maryland to support environmental education projects, community stewardship, and the protection of natural resources in urban and rural areas. The deadline to apply for funding is November 15, 2023. Awards will be announced in March 2024.
Keep Maryland Beautiful grants will be offered in the following categories:
- community stewardship grants for volunteer groups, nonprofits, local governments, and schools;
- capacity building grants for Maryland’s land trusts; and
- grants for nonprofits to implement forestry projects on agricultural land.
About $318,000 is available for this year’s grant round. Learn more.
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 MET Welcomes CCCC Intern, Justyn!
Justyn Pinkney is serving at the Maryland Environmental Trust this year as our Chesapeake Conservation and Climate Corps intern. Justyn is a lifelong resident of Maryland; born and raised in Annapolis. A recent graduate of Salisbury University, Justyn earned a B.S. in Urban Planning with a focus on environmental planning. Justyn's interests also include sustainability, housing, transportation, and conservation. Before starting at MET he had been working at a retirement home in the recreation department, and he continues to work there on weekends.
Throughout his next year at MET Justyn is interested in learning about easement monitoring and stewardship, volunteer management, landowner education, and improving his GIS mapping skills. He loves the inside-baseball aspects of working for a state entity. Justyn enjoys 3D animation and modeling, has been producing music and learning music theory since Middle school, and enjoys cooking with an interest in Southeast Asian, South Asian, Caribbean and African food. His other hobbies include videogames, photography, and traveling.
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Learn about protected places, explore Maryland spaces, or find something new. Check out MET's partners near you.
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Landowner Workshop: Protecting Your Land from Invasive Plants
Join Scenic Rivers Land Trust online for the first in a series of landowner workshops intended to help you steward your land.
Scenic Rivers Land Trust has been tackling problematic invasive plants on our largest conservation easement, Bacon Ridge Natural Area, for the past three years through their Healthy Forests Program. It’s tough work, but they are making progress and making friends along the way. Now that Scenic Rivers is seeing success at Bacon Ridge, they are eager to share what they have learned and connect you with the experts who have helped them through this new online webinar. Presenters include: Nina Fisher (Save Our Trees), Francis Smith (Maryland Forest Service) and Sarah Knebel (Scenic Rivers Land Trust). Learn more.
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Educational Outreach Activities
Check out these educational outreach activities from the Maryland Forest Service. Learn about trees and forests in your backyard. Activities cover all ages, grades, class subjects and teacher resources. Also included: the Maryland's 5th Grade Arbor Day Poster Contest Activity Guides. Learn more.
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Saltwater Intrusion: The Resources and Programs Available for Those Impacted
Saltwater intrusion describes the phenomenon of salty or brackish water mixing into freshwater underground. Even though this process is naturally occurring, it devastates crop fields and decreases yields on salt-impacted land. However, with rising sea levels, severe storms and higher tides, the consequences of saltwater intrusion are being felt more intensely and farther inland than in previous years.
Policymakers and nonprofit organizations at federal, state and local levels have made large efforts to address saltwater intrusion and alleviate its burden on coastal farming communities — including funding valuable research, implementing action plans, and providing assistance and options for farmers and landowners with salt-impacted soil. Learn more.
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SUPPORT the long term stewardship of more than 1,100 conservation easements held by Maryland Environmental Trust with a tax deductible contribution to the MET's Stewardship Fund.
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