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Fostering Chesapeake Stewardship Goal Implementation Team (GIT 5)

The Fostering Chesapeake Stewardship Goal Implementation Team works to increase citizen action, support environmental education for all ages and assist citizens, communities and local governments in conserving treasured landscapes.

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Scope and Purpose

With 17 million people living in the Chesapeake watershed, public participation is a vital piece of the restoration effort. The Fostering Chesapeake Stewardship Goal Implementation Team’s charge is to increase citizen action, support environmental education for all ages, and assist citizens, communities and local governments in undertaking initiatives to conserve treasured landscapes. The team hopes to reconnect the public with nature and foster a shared ownership of the Chesapeake’s diverse resources.  This approach will build public support of restoration and conservation efforts and increase citizen engagement and active stewardship.

The Fostering Chesapeake Stewardship Goal Implementation Team (GIT 5) is pursuing the 2014 Chesapeake Watershed Agreement goals and objectives to:

Stewardship Goal: Increase the number and diversity of local citizen stewards and local governments that actively support and carry out the conservation and restoration activities that achieve healthy local streams, rivers and a vibrant Chesapeake Bay.

  • Citizen Stewardship Outcome: Increase the number and diversity of trained and mobilized citizen volunteers with the knowledge and skills needed to enhance the health of their local watersheds.

Public Access Goal: Expand public access to the Bay and its tributaries through existing and new local, state and federal parks, refuges, reserves, trails and partner sites.

  • Public Access Site Development Outcome: By 2025, add 300 new public access sites, with a strong emphasis on providing opportunities for boating, swimming and fishing, where feasible.

Environmental Literacy Goal: Enable students in the region to graduate with the knowledge and skills to act responsibly to protect and restore their local watershed.

  • Student Outcome: Continually increase students’ age-appropriate understanding of the watershed through participation in teacher-supported, meaningful watershed educational experiences and rigorous, inquiry-based instruction, with a target of at least one meaningful watershed educational experience in elementary, middle and high school depending on available resources.
  • Sustainable Schools Outcome: Continually increase the number of schools in the region that reduce the impact of their buildings and grounds on their local watershed, environment and human health through best practices, including student-led protection and restoration projects.
  • Environmental Literacy Planning Outcome: Each participating Bay jurisdiction should develop a comprehensive and systemic approach to environmental literacy for all students in the region that includes policies, practices and voluntary metrics that support the environmental literacy Goals and Outcomes of this Agreement.

Land Conservation Goal: Conserve landscapes treasured by citizens in order to maintain water quality and habitat; sustain working forests, farms and maritime communities; and conserve lands of cultural, indigenous and community value.

  • Protected Lands Outcome: By 2025, protect an additional two million acres of lands throughout the watershed—currently identified as high-conservation priorities at the federal, state or local level—including 225,000 acres of wetlands and 695,000 acres of forest land of highest value for maintaining water quality.

Publications

  • 2022 Chesapeake Youth Initiative Call for Mentors

    Are you interested in connecting with the next generation of Chesapeake Bay Stewards? Consider participating as a mentor in the 2022 Chesapeake Youth Initiative

  • 2022 Stewardship Cohort Narrative Analysis

    2022 Stewardship Cohort Narrative Analysis

  • 2022 Stewardship Pre-QPM LAP

    2022 Stewardship Pre-QPM LAP

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  • Watershed Agreement

    • Environmental Literacy Goal

      • Student
      • Sustainable Schools
      • Environmental Literacy Planning
    • Land Conservation Goal

      • Protected Lands
    • Public Access Goal

      • Public Access Site Development
    • Stewardship Goal

      • Citizen Stewardship
      • Diversity
  • Workgroups and Action Teams

    • Diversity Workgroup

    • Education Workgroup

    • Protected Lands Workgroup

    • Public Access Planning Team

    • Stewardship Workgroup

  • Members

    • Wendy O'Sullivan (Chair), National Park Service (NPS)


      Superintendent, NPS Chesapeake Bay Office

      Address:
      1750 Forest Drive Suite 130
      Annapolis Maryland 21401

      • Email: wendy_o'sullivan@nps.gov
      • Phone: (202) 374-9051
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    • Lauren Imgrund (Vice Chair), Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources


      Deputy Secretary

      Address:
      400 Market St
      7th Floor
      Harrisburg Pennsylvania 17105

      • Email: limgrund@pa.gov
      • Phone: (717) 772-9085
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    • Britt Slattery (Coordinator), National Park Service (NPS)


      Fostering Chesapeake Stewardship (GIT5) Coordinator

      Address:
      1750 Forest Drive Suite 130
      Suite 314
      Annapolis Maryland 21401

      • Email: Britt_Slattery@nps.gov
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    • Olivia Wisner (Staffer), Chesapeake Research Consortium


      Fostering Chesapeake Stewardship Goal Implementation Team Staffer

      Address:
      1750 Forest Drive Suite 130
      Annapolis Maryland 21401

      • Email: wisnero@chesapeake.org
      • Phone: (410) 260-2486
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    • Tom Ackerman, Chesapeake Bay Foundation


      Vice President for Education

      Address:
      Philip Merrill Environmental Center
      6 Herndon Avenue
      Annapolis Maryland 21403

      • Email: TAckerman@savethebay.cbf.org
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    • Joel Dunn, Chesapeake Conservancy


      President and CEO

      Address:
      716 Giddings Ave
      Annapolis Maryland 21403

      • Email: jdunn@chesapeakeconservancy.org
      • Phone: (443) 321-3610
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    • Suzanne Etgen, Anne Arundel County Watershed Stewards Academy


      Executive Director

      Address:
      975 Indian Landing Rd
      Millersville Maryland 21108

      • Email: setgen@aacps.org
      • Phone: (410) 222-3831
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    • Jackie Kramer, National Park Service (NPS)

      Address:
      410 Severn Avenue
      Suite 314
      Annaoplis Maryland 21403

      • Email: Jackie_Kramer@nps.gov
      • Phone: (717) 792-0556
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    • Kevin Newman, District of Columbia Department of Energy & Environment (DOEE)

      Address:
      1200 First St NE
      Washington District of Columbia 20002

      • Email: kevin.newman@dc.gov
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    • Shannon Sprague, NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office


      Manager, Environmental Literacy [National Marine Fisheries Service]

      Address:
      410 Severn Avenue
      Suite 107-A
      Annapolis Maryland 21403

      • Email: shannon.sprague@NOAA.GOV
      • Phone: (410) 267-5664
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    • Ashley Traut, Greater Baltimore Wilderness Coalition

      Address:
      Greater Baltimore Wilderness Coalition
      Baltimore Maryland 21214

      • Email: atraut@baltimorewilderness.org
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    • Kacey Wetzel, Chesapeake Bay Trust


      Director of Programs for Outreach & Education

      Address:
      108 Severn Ave.
      Annaoplis Maryland 21403

      • Email: kwetzel@cbtrust.org
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    • Michael Weyand, City of Gaithersburg

      Address:
      31 S Summit Ave
      Gaithersburg Maryland 20877

      • Email: Michael.Weyand@GaithersburgMD.gov
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    • Briana Yancy, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency


      Life Scientist & Diversity Workgroup Coordinator

      Address:
      1750 Forest Drive Suite 130
      Annapolis Maryland 21401

      • Email: yancy.briana@epa.gov
      • Phone: (410) 267-5704
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