"Some see the sun setting on the bay. I see it rising. A place this spectacular deserves everything we can give it.

--Charlie Stek

Chairman, Friends of John Smith Chesapeake Trail

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Chesapeake Bay Commission Resolution Encourages Trail Expansion, Treasured Landscapes, Conservation

May 7, 2010


The Chesapeake Bay Commission recently adopted a resolution encouraging actions to further land conservation, public access and tourism initiatives in the Chesapeake Bay watershed.  The resolution urges Congress and the Department of Interior to:

  • advance the implementation of the Capt. John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail and to designate, at the appropriate time, “connector trails;”
  • establish a Chesapeake Treasured Landscapes Fund;
  • and develop a strategy in response to the President's America’s Great Outdoors Initiative.
The resolution also commits the Commission to revise and update the 2001 report Keeping Our Commitment: Preserving Land in the Chesapeake Watershed in partnership with the Friends of the John Smith Trail.

For more information, please view the resolution.


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