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 MET Welcomes New Easement Program Manager, Dan!
Dan Skalos is MET’s new Easement Program Manager. Dan graduated from SUNY Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse New York in 2003. He moved west to work on an array of bird species, but mainly focused on waterfowl. He received his master’s degree from University of California, Davis in 2012 where he studied greater white-fronted geese. He was hired by California Department of Fish and Wildlife in 2013 where he worked as a biologist in the Waterfowl Program before becoming the supervisor of the Waterfowl and Upland Game programs in 2019. While in California, much of his work was related to inventory and monitoring of bird species and working lands conservation practices primarily within the rice industry.
Dan, his wife Shannon and his two daughters Claire and Ava, moved to the east coast to be closer to family. He enjoys bird watching, photographing, hunting and playing with his kids. Dan is excited about engaging landowners to conserve their properties and the natural landscape of Maryland!
Submit Your Application Before November 15
The Keep Maryland Beautiful Grant Program closes on November 15. About $327,000 is available for this year’s grant round.
Keep Maryland Beautiful 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. Learn more.
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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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Rural Legacy Farmers and Partners Celebrate 25 Years of Preserving Maryland’s Bucolic Landscape and Working Farms
Whether it’s waterfront farmland, culturally important land where Harriet Tubman resided, a working farm in Baltimore County, or a stretch of quiet woodlands in Western Maryland, the Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Rural Legacy Program has been protecting it for a quarter century.
The program recently celebrated its 25-year anniversary. To mark the occasion, DNR visited farms across the state and spoke with landowners about what the program means to them. Read more.
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Little Lessons in Getting to Know Your Woods
If you enjoy hiking or walking in nature, you already know there’s so much to take in, and it can be daunting thinking about trying to understand it all. Inspired by the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay's in-person tree identification workshops, the "Tree Talk" video series aims to share small tidbits of information with Chesapeake Bay watershed communities in hopes of inspiring good forest stewards. From how to plant a tree to bark that appears to be flexing its muscles, each Tree Talk is your monthly dose of tree ID, reforestation techniques, and a little forest fun. Learn more.
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Native Plant Profile: Ghost Flower
What’s pale like a mushroom, but has flowers like a plant? It isn’t a riddle, but if you happen to see this unusual and ghostly member of the plant kingdom while hiking you may feel that way.
Monotropa uniflora goes by many names; ghost flower, ghost or corpse plant, ghost pipe, or pipe plant, with some historic sources occasionally referring to it as ice plant. Most of the wildflower’s names refer to its white or pink-white color, or its pipe-like shape, although the name “ice flower” also refers to its delicate nature. Read 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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