To achieve meaningful, lasting conservation results in a landscape characterized by dynamic housing development projects we use a variety of methods:

• Public education and outreach.  We will actively spread information to local residents, to keep you aware of our conservation efforts and encourage your participation!  Through partnerships with established organizations like the Severn River Association and the Severn Riverkeeper Program we are branching out to more then just conserving land.  Participating with them in grant funded shoreline restoration programs, feet after feet of rip rap has been torn down and replaced by living grasses where native species of crab and oyster can thrive once again! Restoring and preserving habitat is the name of the game.

• Targeting for land for preservation is our biggest priority. Donation, Purchase  and Conservation Easements are all part of the effort. There are many lots that aren't useful for building and are perfect candidates for conservation. We are in the process of contacting all landowners to ask for their help.

• We also attend tax sales to buy land considered undesirable by developers, but which represent prime candidates for our purposes.  Our presence at these events is effective!  Often uninformed buyers contact us after the fact to sell what they perceive as 'useless' (undevelopable) land.  Currently over 6 properties within the Arden/Herald Harbor area are awaiting closure procedures for this reason!

Once we have acquired the land we place it under a conservation easement (meaning a restriction placed on a piece of property to protect its associated resources – see our FAQs for more information).  This protection stays with the land in perpetuity ensuring it's preservation.