Northeast & Mid-Atlantic

This page provides a list of green infrastructure related projects in the Northeast & Mid-Atlantic. Click on the links below to learn more about each of these projects. If you are familiar with a project in this region that is not listed here, please suggest a profile, including a website or contact person in the body of the e-mail message.

NEW! Baltimore County, MD

The Baltimore County Forest Sustainability Project engaged stakeholders in developing a Forest Sustainability Strategy for the County, allowing participants with divergent points of view to develop a common understanding of local forest issues, identify those issues requiring additional study, and agree on necessary actions to ensure the long-term health and vitality of Baltimore County’s diverse forest resources.  Read more>

Anne Arundel County, MD

The purpose of the Anne Arundel County Greenways Master Plan (adopted in October of 2002) is to provide an identification, decision making, implementation, and management tool for the County’s future greenways network. The Plan has a long range, 50 plus year time frame.   Read more>

Chester County, PA

On February 26, 2002, the Chester County Board of Commissioners adopted Linking Landscapes: A Plan for the Protected Open Space Network in Chester County, PA as the open space element of the Chester County comprehensive plan.   Read more>

Kent County, DE

Partners turn to The Conservation Fund to effectively utilize the green infrastructure approach to strategic conservation to advance their conservation objectives. The Fund convenes leadership forums to obtain stakeholder input, designs green infrastructure networks, and assembles an implementation quilt to effectively and efficiently achieve on-the-ground results.   Read more>

Maryland

The state’s new GreenPrint Program aims to identify and protect the state’s most ecologically sensitive lands.  Read more>

Massachusetts

The goal of the BioMap is to promote strategic land protection by producing a map showing areas, that if protected, would provide suitable habitat over the long term for the maximum number of Massachusetts' terrestrial and wetland plant and animal species and natural communities.   Read more>

Metro Washington, DC

The two-year Green Infrastructure Demonstration Project sponsored by the National Park Service and the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments is intended to demonstrate techniques for the conservation of forest cover, and for the protection and management of park, recreation and open space land by local governments and private groups through the use of green infrastructure approaches.  Read more>

Montgomery County, MD

Montgomery County has begun a 10-year, $100 million initiative to complete a county-wide network of open space comprised of protected farmland, stream valley parks, ecological reserves, trail corridors, and green space preserves.  Read more>

New Jersey

Garden State Greenways is a 21st Century blueprint for open space in New Jersey. In the tradition of America's metropolitan park and national park plans of the late 19th and early 20th century, Garden State Greenways provides a grand vision for an interconnected system of open space that will have lasting environmental and social benefits for New Jersey.  Read more>

Pittsford, NY

The "Greenprint for Pittsford's Future" has been hailed as a program that serves as a national model for community conservation. This plan will preserve 67% of the undeveloped lands remaining in Pittsford including 1,200 acres of prime and unique farmland.   Read more>
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Green Infrastructure: Linking Landscapes and Communities by Mark A. Benedict and Edward T. McMahon is an illustrative review of advances in smart land conservation and large scale thinking that provides a green solution to many of the problems associated with sprawling development.
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