Healthy Landscapes Goal Team
The Healthy Landscapes Goal Team works to conserve, protect, restore and enhance landscapes of ecological, economic, recreational and cultural value.
Meetings
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No past meetings.
Projects
Chesapeake Healthy Watersheds Assessment 2.0
CompleteBuilt on the foundation of CHWA 1.0 and the Maryland Healthy Watersheds Assessment, this new application can be used to investigate watershed conditions and vulnerabilities within state-identified healthy watersheds and throughout the Chesapeake Bay watershed.
Maryland Healthy Watershed Assessment
CompleteThe Maryland Healthy Watershed Assessment establishes a framework of watershed health and vulnerability metrics for assessing Maryland waters and watersheds.
Chesapeake Healthy Watersheds Assessment 1.0
CompleteThe Chesapeake Healthy Watersheds Assessment helps partners identify "signals of change" in vulnerable or resilient healthy waters and watersheds.
Conservation Land-Use Policy Toolkit
CompleteThis toolkit provides local governments in the Chesapeake Bay watershed with information about land-use policy tools they can use to slow the conversion of farmland, forestland and wetlands.
Healthy Watersheds Forest Retention Studies (Phases I, II and III)
CompleteThis project researched and piloted alternative methods for forest and agricultural land conservation.
Publications
Conewango Creek Initiative Conservation Toolbox for Municipalities
Publication date:This guide demonstrates how municipalities can use land and water conservation programs to improve their communities and protect watersheds and water resources.
View document [PDF, 3.5 MB] Conewango Creek Initiative Conservation Toolbox for Municipalities
The Role of Natural Landscape Features in the Fate and Transport of Nutrients and Sediment
Publication date:This report summarizes the proceedings of a workshop to consider whether there is a scientific basis for changing how the Chesapeake Bay Program's Watershed Model assigns nutrient and/or sediment loading rates of natural landscape features based on their ecological health/condition, management status and/or landscape position.
Economic Benefits of Protecting Healthy Watersheds: A Literature Review
Publication date:This paper explores the various methods that have been used to quantify the value of ecosystem services.
View document [PDF, 1.6 MB] Economic Benefits of Protecting Healthy Watersheds: A Literature Review
Identifying and Protecting Healthy Watersheds: Concepts, Assessments, and Management Approaches
Publication date:This technical resource provides information for assessing, identifying and protecting healthy watersheds.
Cost of Community Services Fact Sheet
Publication date:This fact sheet documents the history, methodology, functions and purposes of Cost of Community Services (COCS) studies.
View document [PDF, 1.4 MB] Cost of Community Services Fact Sheet
Our Watershed Agreement Goals & Outcomes
Healthy Landscapes Goal
Our Workgroups & Action Teams
Our Members
- Ken Hyer (Chair)
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) kenhyer@usgs.gov - Claire Jantz (Chair)
PA Department of Conservation and Natural Resources cjantz@pa.gov - Peter Claggett (Coordinator)
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) pclaggett@usgs.gov - Julia Fucci (Staffer)
Chesapeake Research Consortium fuccij@chesapeake.org - Deborah Herr Cornwell
Maryland Department of Planning deborah.herrcornwell@maryland.gov - Cassie Davis
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Cassandra.davis@dec.ny.gov - Steve Saari
District of Columbia Department of Energy & Environment Steve.saari@dc.gov - Scott Settle
West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection dallas.s.settle@wv.gov - Caitlin Verdu
Virginia Department of Forestry caitlin.verdu@dof.virginia.gov - Holly Walker
Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control Holly.Walker@delaware.gov - Maggie Woodward
Chesapeake Bay Commission mwoodward@chesbay.us