Land Use Workgroup - All Meetings
2026
Time Series Data Review Office Hours
This is time for optional office hours to review the Time Series Data. See the agenda below for meeting information and agenda items.
2025
- Healthy Watersheds Outcome: 100 percent of state-identified currently healthy waters and watersheds remain healthy. (GIT 4)
- Land Use Methods and Metrics Development Outcome: Continually improve the knowledge of land conversion and the associated impacts throughout the watershed. By 2016, develop a Chesapeake Bay watershed-wide methodology and local level metrics for characterizing the rate of farmland, forest and wetland conversion, measuring the extent and rate of change in impervious surface coverage and quantifying the potential impacts of land conversion to water quality, healthy watersheds and communities. Launch a public awareness campaign to share this information with citizens, local governments, elected officials and stakeholders. (GIT 4)
- Land Use Options Evaluation Outcome: By the end of 2017, with the direct involvement of local governments or their representatives, evaluate policy options, incentives and planning tools that could assist them in continually improving their capacity to reduce the rate of conversion of agricultural lands, forests and wetlands as well as the rate of changing landscapes from more natural lands that soak up pollutants to those that are paved over, hardscaped or otherwise impervious. Strategies should be developed for supporting local governments’ and others’ efforts in reducing these rates by 2025 and beyond. (GIT 4)
CANCELED: Land Use Workgroup Meeting- December 2025
This meeting has been CANCELED. The LUWG will be having a joint meeting with the groups under the proposed Healthy Landscapes Goal on December 16th, from 10:00AM-3:00PM, in place of this meeting. Please see the joint meeting calendar page for more information.
CANCELED: Healthy Landscapes Goal Joint Meeting
Per direction from Chesapeake Bay Program leadership, this meeting has been canceled. We hope to reschedule this meeting in 2026.
If you have any questions, please reach out to staffers Caroline Kleis (Kleis.caroline@epa.gov), Julia Fucci (Fuccij@chesapeake.org),and Daniel Koval (Kovald@chesapeake.org).
Land Use Workgroup - September 2025
OPTIONAL: Land Use Workgroup Back-Cast Methods Office Hours
Webinar: Mapping Change: Using High-Resolution Land and Hydrography Data in Restoration Decisions
The Chesapeake Bay Program has recently updated its 2013/14 and 2017/18 High-Resolution Land Use/Land Cover Data and Change Data and released a new dataset from 2021/22. Additionally, the partnership introduced a new Hyper-Resolution Hydrography Dataset to precisely identify the location, dimensions and connectivity of streams, ditches and other waterways. This newly released information provides a detailed understanding of how the land of the Bay watershed is being utilized and managed and how it has changed over time. These tools are used to track progress and direct planning for multiple goals and outcomes in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement. Join us for a webinar that will teach participants how to use these datasets and understand how they can be applied to different audiences when considering Bay restoration.
Land Use Workgroup Meeting - June 2025
Land Use Workgroup Meeting - March 2025
Healthy Watersheds GIT (HWGIT) & Land Use Workgroup (LUWG) Beyond 2025 "Big Questions" Discussion
This time will be used for the HWGIT and LUWG to discuss the Outcome Assessment ("Big Questions") assignment put forward by the Management Board. This meeting will include discussions on the following outcomes:
Healthy Watersheds Goal:
Land Conservation Goal:
If you have any questions, please reach out to the Healthy Watersheds GIT & Forestry Workgroup Staffer, Marilyn Yang (myang@chesapeakebay.net) or the Land Use Workgroup Staffer, Caroline Kleis (Kleis.Caroline@epa.gov).
2024
CANCELED: Land Use Workgroup Meeting - December 2024
This meeting has been CANCELED. The LUWG will be having a joint meeting with the Forestry Workgroup and Healthy Watersheds GIT on December 2nd, from 10:00AM-3:00PM, in place of this meeting. Please see the joint meeting calendar page for more information.
Forestry/Land Use Workgroup and Healthy Watersheds GIT Joint Meeting - December 2024
This is a joint meeting with the Healthy Watersheds Goal Team, the Forestry Workgroup, and the Land Use Workgroup.
Please note, this meeting will take the place of the regularly scheduled bi-monthly Healthy Watersheds Goal Team meeting and monthly Forestry Workgroup meeting for December, 2024.
This meeting will take place in a hybrid format with a virtual and in-person option.
If you have any questions, please reach out to the Healthy Watersheds GIT & Forestry Workgroup Staffer, Marilyn Yang (myang@chesapeakebay.net) or the Land Use Workgroup Staffer, Caroline Kleis (Kleis.Caroline@epa.gov).
Please see below for hybrid meeting information:
Meeting Link: Click to Join the Meeting
Meeting ID: 239 624 098 050
Passcode: JNCfKG
Join by Phone: +1 469-208-1525
Phone Conference ID: 679 388 109#
Land Use Workgroup Meeting - September 2024
This is the quarterly meeting for the Land Use Workgroup. The agenda and materials will be posted when available.
This meeting is recorded for internal purposes only. All workgroup conference calls are open to the public. Interested parties are encouraged to attend.
Land Use Workgroup Meeting - June 2024
This is the quarterly meeting for the Land Use Workgroup. The agenda and materials will be posted when available.
This meeting is recorded for internal purposes only. All workgroup conference calls are open to the public. Interested parties are encouraged to attend.
Land Use Workgroup Meeting - March 2024
This is the quarterly meeting for the Land Use Workgroup. The agenda and materials will be posted when available.
This meeting is recorded for internal purposes only. All workgroup conference calls are open to the public. Interested parties are encouraged to attend.
2023
Land Use/Forestry Workgroup Meeting - December 2023
This is a joint meeting for the Land Use and Forestry workgroups. Please contact Jackie Pickford (pickford.jacqueline@epa.gov) and Sophie Waterman (swaterman@chesapeakebay.net) with questions.
Land Use Workgroup (LUWG) Quarterly Meeting, September 2023
Quarterly meeting for the Land Use Workgroup. Agenda and materials will be posted when available. Please contact Sushanth Gupta (gupta.sushanth@epa.gov) with questions.
All workgroup meetings are open to the public. Interested parties are encouraged to attend.
Land Use Workgroup (LUWG) Quarterly Meeting, June 2023
Quarterly meeting for the Land Use Workgroup. Agenda and materials will be posted when available. Please contact Jackie Pickford (pickford.jacqueline@epa.gov) with questions.
All workgroup meetings are open to the public. Interested parties are encouraged to attend.
Land Use Workgroup (LUWG) Quarterly Meeting, March 2023
Quarterly meeting for the Land Use Workgroup. Agenda and materials will be posted when available. Please contact Jackie Pickford (pickford.jacqueline@epa.gov) with questions.
All workgroup meetings are open to the public. Interested parties are encouraged to attend.
2022
JOINT Forestry Workgroup (FWG) Land Use Workgroup (LUWG) Meeting, December 2022
JOINT HYBRID MEETING: Forestry Workgroup and Land Use Workgroup.
Meeting materials posted as available. Please contact Sophie Waterman (swaterman@chesapeakebay.net) and Jackie Pickford (pickford.jacqueline@epa.gov) with any questions.
CANCELED: Land Use Workgroup Conference Call, November 2022
This meeting is canceled, as the LUWG is moving towards a quarterly meeting schedule. We will reconvene in December. Please contact Jackie Pickford (pickford.jacqueline@epa.gov) with questions.
CANCELED: Land Use Workgroup Conference Call, October 2022
This meeting is canceled, as the LUWG is moving towards a quarterly meeting schedule. We will reconvene in December. Please contact Jackie Pickford (pickford.jacqueline@epa.gov) with questions.
Land Use Workgroup Conference Call, September 2022
IMPORTANT: The Chesapeake Bay Program website will be undergoing maintenance from September 5th-18th and we will be unable to upload any new content during that time. Please excuse any delay in posting materials. Contact Jackie Pickford (pickford.jacqueline@epa.gov) with any questions. We appreciate your understanding and apologize for the inconvenience!