{"id":22110,"date":"2018-06-01T08:00:13","date_gmt":"2018-06-01T12:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=22110"},"modified":"2018-05-31T14:17:52","modified_gmt":"2018-05-31T18:17:52","slug":"maryland-land-conservation-conference-focused-on-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2018\/06\/01\/maryland-land-conservation-conference-focused-on-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland Land Conservation Conference Focused on Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Annual Event Unites Multitude of Stewardship Partners<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/05\/Constable-opening-remarks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-22116\" src=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/05\/Constable-opening-remarks-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of opening remarks at Maryland Land Conservation Conference\" width=\"351\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/05\/Constable-opening-remarks-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/05\/Constable-opening-remarks-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/05\/Constable-opening-remarks-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 351px) 100vw, 351px\" \/><\/a>The <a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/met\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maryland Environmental Trust<\/a> recently welcomed more than 140 people from 83 organizations &#8211; land trusts, conservancies, governmental organizations, heritage organizations, members of the agricultural community and other partners &#8211; to its 2018 Maryland Land Conservation Conference.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The event, held May 17 at the Maritime Conference Center in Linthicum Heights, explored land conservation and stewardship, using science and technology to further conservation goals, attracting the next generation of conservation and community stewards, and enhancing organizational development and sustainability.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->&#8220;We will seek to continue these conversations throughout the year and build on this year\u2019s conference, while exploring new opportunities to build a stronger, more resilient and durable conservation movement,&#8221; Director Bill Leahy said.<\/p>\n<div>Attendees enjoyed education workshops, lightning talks series and peer-to-peer networking opportunities. The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maryland Department of Natural Resources<\/a>\u00a0also debuted its new\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2018\/05\/21\/new-tool-provides-conservation-report-card-for-every-land-parcel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Parcel Evaluation Tool<\/a>\u00a0designed to analyze and rate the conservation benefits and ecosystem \u201cvalue\u201d of land parcels across the state.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>More information on conference offerings and presentations is available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.z2systems.com\/np\/clients\/met\/event.jsp?event=95&amp;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">online<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annual Event Unites Multitude of Stewardship Partners The Maryland Environmental Trust recently welcomed more than 140 people from 83 organizations &#8211; land trusts, conservancies, governmental organizations, heritage organizations, members of the agricultural community and other partners &#8211; to its 2018 Maryland Land Conservation Conference.\u00a0 The event, held May 17 at the Maritime Conference Center in<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2018\/06\/01\/maryland-land-conservation-conference-focused-on-future\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[957,23],"tags":[2912,4312,3147,4483,4446],"class_list":["post-22110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-land","tag-bill-leahy","tag-conservation","tag-maryland-environmental-trust","tag-maryland-land-conservation-conference","tag-parcel-evaluation-tool"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22110"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22170,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22110\/revisions\/22170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}