Mission Statement
Conserve, steward, and advocate for the unique rural landscape of the Eastern Shore.
Mission Statement
Conserve, steward, and advocate for the unique rural landscape of the Eastern Shore.
Eastern Shore Land Conservancy has drafted a Rural Jobs Agenda to take to Annapolis for this next Maryland General Assembly session. We would love your great ideas and thoughts about ensuring the Eastern Shore is thriving and vibrant. Our Vision for Rural Maryland: Rural areas like our Eastern Shore of Maryland will be places of innovation and opportunity, with vibrant towns, thriving farms and forests, and economies built from rural strengths. Our Rural Regions Are Places of Opportunity Rural regions are Maryland treasures. Their natural resources and landscapes serve food, fiber and fun, and are living connections to the stories and lifestyles that founded our State. Our rural places, however, will not stay special by accident. The need for economic opportunity is distinct, and the choices feel limited. Needed now is a clear vision, regional collaboration, and smart investments to ensure that economic vibrancy emerges from our rural region, not despite it. Collective actions in the following areas are essential future economic innovations and opportunity: Strengthen our Towns as Economic Hubs – Towns are the commerce center for our rural communities. For the sustainability of our rural lands and industry, it is essential these are healthy, attractive places to live and work. Capacity and support for the WIP work should be built and investment in transit and telecommuting centers should be encouraged. - Support creation of the Eastern Shore Conservation Center. This regional conservation center in the heart of Chesapeake country would share costs, increase collaboration, and promote the best of the region’s rural heritage. It would house many outdoors and conservation oriented non-profits that would be dedicated to sustaining the rural legacy of the Eastern Shore of Maryland and beyond. This project would also rehabilitate a historic building and be a part of a major downtown revitalization for Easton, MD. - Reinstitute the MDE’s Loan Forgiveness Program for minor WWTPs, and ensure future
Eastern Shore Land Conservancy is pleased to announce its Annual Gala and Silent Auction, Land Ho! Celebrating Eastern Shore Treasures, will be held from 4 to 6 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 20, at River House, Aspen Institute. The Gala supports Eastern Shore Land Conservancy’s Annual Fund, which helps us to continue our work saving land in six counties on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. ESLC is a private, nonprofit land conservation organization dedicated to the preservation of farmland and habitat on the Eastern Shore. Funded by member contributions, ESLC helps landowners to discover, evaluate and implement any of the voluntary land preservation options available. Since its inception in 1990, ESLC has helped landowners to protect more than 53,000 acres of farmland and important habitat on 283 Eastern Shore properties. River House is a Georgian plantation house overlooking the Wye River on Aspen Institute’s 1,100-acre campus in Queenstown. The Queenstown Conference Center site was donated to Aspen Institute in 1979 by Mr. and Mrs. Arthur A. Houghton Jr. Auction items this year will include artwork by Marc Castelli, a one-week stay in a Jackson Hole, Wyoming guest home, and sculpture by Judge John C. North. Past auction items have included exciting vacation packages, art, combine rides, bird walks, and dinners on gorgeous, preserved properties. You may order tickets or become a sponsor of Land Ho! Celebrating Eastern Shore Treasures by visiting us online and choosing your sponsorship level (Jack Tar through Landlubber!) from the dropdown menu, or by contacting Jennifer Pollard, Director of Planned Giving, at jpollard@eslc.org, or 410-827-9756, ext. 155.
ESLC's Center for Towns Hosts PARK(ing) Day in Easton Come visit and play with us Friday in our temporary parklet, which Eastern Shore Land Conservancy's Center for Towns staff and volunteers will install in a parking space on Harrison Street in front of Easton Town Hall! (Please note location change.) Please enjoy the benefits of our parklet, to include: fishing in our urban wetland parking space; discounts to area businesses; talking about exciting ESLC projects! Then, come visit us from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday in Thompson Park in Easton for Chesapeake Film Festival to become an Eastern Shore star.
Eastern Shore Land Conservancy's Board of Directors and staff today were saddened to learn of the passing of Russell E. Train, a true leader of conservation, internationally and locally. He was a longtime friend of the organization. "He served on our advisory board, placed a conservation easement on his own property, and was a passionate advocate for conservation in the region and beyond," said ESLC Executive Director Robert J. Etgen. "His leadership and spirit will be missed. Please join us as we remember his legacy." For a compete obituary, please see The New York Times.
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