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Conserved farmland in Talbot County, Maryland

A farm protected by a conservation easement with the Eastern Shore Land Conservancy is seen in Talbot County, Md. on July 27, 2023. The property includes 100 acres of working crop fields as well as barns, wildlife habitat, 20 acres of coastal plain forest, and critical area water frontage along Peach Blossom Creek, a tributary of the Tred Avon River. It offers great examples of forested buffers that protect the water quality of the creek and river. Dominant forest species include loblolly pine, American beech, American holly, tulip poplar, black walnut, hickory, cherry, white oak, red oak, and American sweetgum. The property also rates moderately significant for biodiversity conservation according to Maryland DNR’s Natural Heritage and BIONET scale. (Photo by Marielle Scott/Chesapeake Bay Program)

 

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Uploaded on May 31, 2024
Taken on July 27, 2023