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Forest Legacy Program
Grant Program Website:
http://dnr.maryland.gov/forests/Pages/programapps/forestlegacy.aspxSupport Agency:
Program Contact:
Maryland DNR Forest Service
Forest Service
Tawes State Office Building E-1
580 Taylor Ave.
Annapolis, MD 2140
Tawes State Office Building E-1
580 Taylor Ave.
Annapolis, MD 2140
Is this a rolling date? :
YesDates Link:
RollingPurpose:
A Federal program in partnership with States, the Forest Legacy Program supports State efforts to protect environmentally sensitive forest lands. Designed to encourage the protection of privately owned forestlands, the Forest Legacy Program is an entirely voluntary program.Support Type:
Funding AssistanceFunding Range:
The federal government may fund up to 75% of project costs, with at least 25% coming from private, State or local sources. In addition to gains associated with the sale or donation of property rights, many landowners also benefit from reduced taxes associated with limits placed on land use.Restoration Activity:
Forest conservationEligibility:
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Featured Fellow
Nina Santos
Nina Santos is a Ph.D. student at the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. For her dissertation, she is focused on small shrimp-like crustaceans called mysids – an understudied yet important part of many estuarine and coastal food webs.
Featured Research Project
Developing a habitat model for mysids, an important link in Chesapeake Bay food webs
Mysids are important mesozooplankton prey for many species of fish in Chesapeake Bay and are an important link in transferring energy from lower to upper trophic levels. Mysids also serve as biological vectors for benthic-pelagic coupling due to their diel vertical migration and omnivorous prey-switching behavior, which makes mysids important regulators of food web architecture. Despite their central role in coastal food webs, surprisingly little is known about mysid ecology and dynamics in Chesapeake Bay.
