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June 2025 | Land Trust eNews
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Maryland Environmental Trust Spotlight |
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 Land Trust Monitoring Reports
Remember to submit your land trust's co-held easement monitoring reports for the first half of the calendar year 2025. Please submit reports for easements co-held with MET that were monitored between January 1 - June 30, 2025. Co-held monitoring reports for this period are due by the end of July. For more information email Michelle at michelle.grafton@maryland.gov.
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Outdoor Recreation Summit Coming to Baltimore This October
The second annual Maryland Outdoor Recreation Summit will be held October 28-30, 2025 at the Royal Sonesta in Baltimore City, Maryland. This three-day event will bring together recreation enthusiasts, community leaders, advocates, and business owners from across the state to network, collaborate, and learn.
Whether you’re shaping policy, building community, or simply passionate about the outdoors, your voice is valued. Help shape the future of outdoor recreation in Maryland - registration opens soon!
Session proposals are now being accepted - submissions due Monday, June 30
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MNPS Monthly Program: Native Plants in Baltimore from Forests to Gardens
July 29, 2025 | Free
In recent years, Baltimore has quietly emerged as a leading US city for conservation stewardship across its forested and vacant to greened land. Local environmental land trust Baltimore Green Space is a leading organization in these conservation efforts. This talk will highlight some examples of this work and its impacts for conservation education and land enhancements in the urban setting, as well as for programming community-based work with native plant ecosystems from forests and their edges to more landscaped meadow patches and pollinator gardens in pocket parks and community gardens. Learn more.
Nature Based Solutions for Coastal Hazards
August 28, 2025 | Registration Required
Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve and NOAA's Office for Management are hosting a training for coastal managers and planners to plan and implement green (natural) infrastructure projects to reduce natural coastal hazards in their community. Learn more.
The What, How and Why of Drones for Land Trusts
November 6, 2025 | Registration Fee
Has your land trust thought about using drones for monitoring, baseline documentation or current conditions reports, but you aren’t sure where to start? Whether the hurdle is understanding how drone photography works or deciding how to budget, this webinar is for you. Stewardship and land protection staff and volunteers will learn the basics of what drones are and how they work, how one last trust started a new drone program and more! Learn more.
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Tools, Tech and Tutorials |
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 Restoration Takes Root: Living Shorelines for Changing Coasts
The Chesapeake Quarterly explores scientific, environmental, and cultural issues relevant to the Chesapeake Bay and its watershed. This edition includes articles on Designing with Nature, Seeding Shorelines, Living Rocks for Living Shorelines and more!
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 Maryland Native Plants Program (MNPP)
The MNPP's mission is to promote the use and sale of plants native, and to increase awareness about the importance and benefits of native plants. The MNPP is a partnership between the University of Maryland Extension, Department of Agriculture, Department of Natural Resources and the MD Native Plant Society.
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 HabiChat: For Stewards of Maryland's Backyard Wildlife
Summer is just heating up, and just like the perennials have come back into full bloom! The new summer edition of HabiChat includes articles on the NEW Maryland Native Plant Program, Estivation, Sweat Bees and the Natural Heritage Program’s Prescribed Burns.
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Share Your News
If you would like to share relevant conservation news, success stories, announcements or events with Maryland's land trusts and conservation partners through this publication, please contact Michelle Grafton by the first of each month at michelle.grafton@maryland.gov.
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