Incase you missed it....
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Check out the new DRCN forum on the website for members to engage in discussion by topic! - Explore Here
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Agricultural and Forestry Lands (Working Lands) Operating Committee Meeting Notes - Read Here
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Restoration and Resilience Operating Committee Meeting Notes - Read Here
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Register Today for the Inaugural DRCN Annual Meeting!
The event will be held at Salisbury University, Henson Hall, 1101 Camden Avenue, Salisbury, MD on August 8, 2023 from 8:30AM-3:30 PM. Register by August 4th to reserve your seat and secure your lunch ticket!
This year, the DRCN is celebrating Delmarva as a place that connects people across states, political parties, industries, and interests with the theme One Delmarva. Tickets are $10 and continental breakfast and lunch will be provided. Lunch will be held in the University Commons on campus, and will include a variety of selections to meet various dietary needs.
More information to come on parking, speakers, and the order of events for the day. On the registration page, you will be given the opportunity to: add the event to your calendar, sign up as a sponsor for the event, and indicate interest in providing a poster to highlight a current project or accomplishment within your organization's work on Delmarva.
*If cost is a barrier to attend the annual meeting, scholarships are available. Please contact sophia_seufert@fws.gov for your code to access registration.
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Maryland Department of Natural Resources' Partnership with Lower Shore Land Trust Adds to Forest Lands in the Pocomoke River watershed | |
The Maryland Department of Natural Resources, in partnership with Lower Shore Land Trust, today announced the purchase of the former Bay Club near Berlin, Worcester County, from Carl M. Freeman Companies. Formerly a golf club, this purchase will help conserve 672 acres in the headwaters of the Pocomoke River watershed with the objectives of restoring wetlands, reforestation, and providing public access.
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Eastern Shore Land Conservancy Tours U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Pollinator Habitat Project at Easton Sustainability Center | |
ESLC recently toured a plant operated by Easton Utilities. The facility, located on the Easton Sustainability Campus, was surrounded by a field brimming with flowers, buzzing bees, and a myriad of songbirds. The tour was organized by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) who partnered with Easton Utilities to integrate pollinator habitat within their existing solar field installed in 2017 across approximately ten acres.
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Trainings, Workshops and Conferences | | |
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Nanticoke Recycled Cardboard Boat Regatta
The Reclaim Our River partnership is now accepting registrations for the Eighth Annual Recycled Cardboard Boat Regatta at the Nanticoke River Marina in Blades, DE. This year's epic event is scheduled for Saturday, August 5, at 11:00AM. Pre-register by Friday, July 21, to receive special early-bird pricing of $20 per boat.
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Ride for Clean Rivers
Sunday, September 17, ride the beautiful back roads of Talbot and Queen Anne’s Counties in support of ShoreRivers’ work for clean waterways. All proceeds go toward ShoreRivers’ science-based education, restoration, and water quality monitoring programs.
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Latino Conservation Day
Come out to Masonville Cove Environmental Education Center (located in Baltimore, MD) for Latino Conservation Day! The celebration will be taking place July 9th, 2023 1:00-6:00pm. Fishing, birdwatching, trails, boat rides, archery and more will be available to the public free of charge.
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Millions Coming to Help
Restore Burtons Bay
Researchers at William & Mary’s Virginia Institute of Marine Science will use a $2.25 million grant from NOAA to expand their already successful efforts to restore seagrass and scallops to the seaside bays of Virginia’s Eastern Shore.
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Maryland farmer ‘fearless’ in building Wild Kid Acres
Just before the COVID-19 pandemic struck in 2020, Wild Kid Acres was nothing but a scrappy, wooded lot for an abandoned home with a deer carcass on the front porch. Four years later, a county eyesore has become a still-growing but thriving agricultural operation.
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How Landscape Conservation Partnerships Are Working to Address Climate Change
This paper examines the experience of collaborative partnerships in dealing with climate change. The examination draws from a recent online survey of landscape conservation partnerships...
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2023 Virginia Battlefield Preservation Fund
The General Assembly established the Virginia Battlefield Preservation Fund (VBPF) in 2010, and authorized DHR to administer the fund by evaluating and disbursing grant awards to eligible recipients for the protection of battlefield lands associated with Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, and the Civil War. In accordance with VBPF stipulations, recipients must be nonprofit organizations. Any such organization awarded a battlefield grants must donate an easement to the Virginia Board of Historic Resources on any acreage acquired with the state grants.
Deadline: Aug 1, 2023
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The Virginia Land Conservation Foundation board of trustees met on May 16, 2023, to open the FY24 grant round to fund land conservation projects. Funding is available for grant funding as follows in the following five categories: Farmland Preservation, Forestland Preservation, Historic Area Preservation, and Natural Area Preservation, and Open Spaces and Parks.
Qualified land trusts, Virginia Indian tribes, localities, state agencies and soil and water conservation districts are eligible to apply.
Deadline: August 8, 2023
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Through this funding opportunity, the Trust seeks to engage new applicants and organizations from diverse communities in small-scale projects that enhance communities, engage residents, and, ultimately, improve natural resources. The Trust seeks to engage groups that have traditionally been under-engaged with environmental issues and new applicants from a diverse array of communities. Only applicants who have received three grants or fewer from the Trust in the past are eligible.
Rolling Acceptance
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Chesapeake Bay Trust Nontidal Wetlands
Awards Program
The Maryland Department of the Environment and the Trust seek proposals for nontidal wetland projects in Maryland. This program seeks to implement cost-effective wetland projects to provide valuable wetland functions, including habitat for a wide range of species and improved water quality, flood attenuation, recharge of groundwater, and aesthetics in the State’s local watersheds and ultimately the Chesapeake Bay, Youghiogheny River, and Atlantic Coastal Bays.
Deadline: September 14, 2023
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Jobs
Conservation Programs Coordinator - no deadline provided - National Aquarium (Baltimore, MD)
Land Representative (Virginia) - no deadline provided - Resource Environmental Solutions LLC (Richmond, VA)
Marine Scientist, Senior - no deadline provided - The Virginia Institute of Marine Science (Gloucester, VA)
Nursery Technician - no deadline provided - Environmental Concern (St. Michaels, Md.)
Engineer I - Environmental - July 17, 2023 - DNREC/Division of Water (Dover, DE)
Engineer IV - Environmental - September 6, 2023 - DNREC/Div. of Water (Dover, DE)
Environmental Control Technician II-Wetland Field Technician - no deadline provided - DNREC/Division of Watershed Stewardship-Wetland (Dover, DE)
Engineer I - Stormwater - September 11, 2023 - DNREC/Division of Watershed Stewardship (Dover, DE)
Engineer I-IV - Floodplain Management - September 12, 2023 - Floodplain Management - DNREC/Div. of Watershed Stewardship
Hydrologist II - III - Wetland and Waterway - September 16, 2023 - DNREC/Division of Water (location negotiable)
Staff Scientist, Coastal Resilience - no deadline provided - National Fish and Wildlife Foundations (Washington D.C.)
Manager, Coastal Resilience - no deadline provided - National Fish and Wildlife Foundations (Washington D.C.)
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About the Delmarva Restoration and Conservation Network (DRCN) | |
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The Delmarva Restoration and Conservation Network (DRCN), formed in 2017, is a collaborative of local, state, and Federal government agencies and NGOs working with private and public landowners and local governments to identify the most important places to protect and restore, and to obtain support and funding for voluntary restoration and conservation.
The DRCN Mission is to restore and conserve Delmarva’s landscapes, waterways, and shorelines that are special to its people, fundamental to its economy, and vital for its native fish, wildlife, and plants.
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