The Conservation Fund was engaged to produce a county-scale Green Infrastructure Plan for Talbot County, which is centrally located on Maryland’s Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay. The County features a fragile system of islands and peninsulas that make up almost 600 miles of coastline bordering the Bay and its multiple inlets, as well as the Choptank River and Tuckahoe Creek to the east and the Miles and Wye East Rivers to the northwest.
The Talbot County Green Infrastructure Plan identifies critical areas for conservation, establishes priorities for protection, and recommends tactics for implementation and funding. The Plan focuses on ecologically important resource areas (woodlands, high quality wildlife habitat), highly productive working landscapes (farmland and farmland and forestland) and critical areas for the protection of aquatic resources (wetlands, sensitive shoreline areas, riparian corridors, floodplains).
Talbot’s Green Infrastructure Plan was developed in coordination with the County’s updated Comprehensive Plan in order to reflect the community values, future vision, and local interests set forth by Talbot County and its residents.
DOWNLOAD the Talbot County Green Infrastructure Plan (pdf).
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