The Chesapeake Bay Watershed is the largest estuary in North America, supporting 18 million people and over 3,600 species of plants and animals. Yet, these valuable lands are under constant threat, losing an average of 54 acres of forest, as well as other lands, each day to development and rising water levels. These are special places where wildlife thrives, families create memories, and history runs deep.

The Chesapeake Conservancy is dedicated to preserving these special places for the enjoyment of future generations and to allow biodiversity to flourish. We are using groundbreaking data to identify valuable lands for protection, implement effective conservation policies, and restore impaired streams.

Theodore Roosevelt once said, "Of all the questions which can come before this nation, short of the actual preservation of its existence in a great war, there is none which compares in importance with the great central task of leaving this land even a better land for our descendants than it is for us... Conservation is a great moral issue for it involves the patriotic duty of ensuring the safety and continuance of the nation.” 

By contributing to my fundraising efforts, you can help protect the Chesapeake Bay watershed and support the development of programs that will retard climate change and "ensure the safety and continuance of the nation.”