Past Grants

Environmental Law Institute

In continued support of the Forests for the Bay Project in an effort to abate forest fragmentation and disappearance of Maryland woodlands. The project advocates the voluntary landowner management of existing forestland, cooperative management of smaller parcels, re-establishment of trees in brownfields, provisions for property tax incentives for retention and stewardship of forests, expansion of programs to secure forest buffers along the waterways, and better monitoring of current forest harvest practices to ensure compliance with regulations.

Herring Run Watershed Association

For general support of stewardship activities designed to improve the environmental quality of the Herring Run watershed, which reaches the Chesapeake Bay.

Environmental Law Institute

For design and publication costs of the “Forests for the Bay”; report. The report recommends the adoption of forest landscape policy goals to promote the expansion and connection of contiguous forests that protect the Chesapeake Bay.

Irvine Nature Center

For the development of three additional modules for Natural Connections, an urban environmental education program.

Center for a Livable Future

For staffing to oversee the creation of two schoolyard gardens at Elmer A. Henderson Elementary School.