Maryland, Pennsylvania & Delaware Natural Resource Secretaries and NGO Groups Urge Congress to Establish a Chesapeake Treasured Landscapes Fund
April 2, 2010
Letters delivered to the House and Senate Appropriations Subcommittees
More than 20 national, regional and local organizations and agencies, including the Secretaries of Natural Resources from Maryland, Pennsylvania and Delaware, signed a joint letter addressed to the leadership of the Senate and House Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior urging them to create a Chesapeake Bay Treasured Landscape Fund to conserve lands of ecological, cultural and historic significance.
The joint letter respectfully requested an allocation in the FY 2011 Interior, Environment and Related Agencies Appropriations bill of $10 million for a pilot program for land conservation that contributes to the protection of water quality, wildlife habitat and cultural and other significant landscapes throughout the Chesapeake Bay watershed.
Read the Senate letter here
Read the House letter here
