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Plans for the future.
The Eastern Shore Conservation
Center, set to open its doors early
this September, will create a unique working home
for cooperative effort among ESLC and other allied
organizations and businesses committed to land
conservation, environmental stewardship, and smart
growth on the Delmarva Peninsula. ESLC is taking a
lasting view in creating a center that lays the found-
ation to promote, connect, and foster a conservation
ethic amongst people of all ages and walks of life.
This living model will protect and serve all of
Delmarva.
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Resilience Matters.
Through education, outreach,and
the implementation of sound planning
principles, ESLC endeavors to protect its Eastern
Shore from future coastal hazards. Minimal examples
of long term resilience planning for climate change,
sea level rise, and extreme weather exist at the town
and county levels. This is where ESLC comes in.
ESLC’s strengths are in convening stakeholders,
fostering dialogue, and promoting sound planning
philosophies. ESLC’s Coastal Resilience Program
will create capacity and leadership, foster public
support and political will, and build resilience in
vulnerable communities.
In the beginning.
Our first preserved property
was signed into easement early on
December 15, 1990 by Mr. Cooper Bright. Ninety-
two acres along Brannock Bay in Dorchester County,
Mr. Cooper’s farm was preserved to protect and to
permanently maintain the dominant scenic, historic,
cultural, rural, agricultural, woodland, and wetland
character of the property. In the 25 years since Mr.
Cooper’s easement, ESLC has conserved over 57,000
acres of farmland across the Eastern Shore. For those
of you who have supported ESLC from the first 92
acres to the now 57,000—we say thank you!
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LAND CONSERVANCY
It began 25 years ago
with a simple dream
to save the Shore.

2. And so, ESLC was born in early
October of 1990.Taking refuge in
Queenstown, ESLC founders set up shop in a small
horse barn belonging to the Wye Research and
Education Center along the Wye River. Weekly
meetings were held at the kitchen table, where
staff tackled such issues as expansion and land use
planning. Within its first five years, ESLC hosted a
statewide land trust conference representing 41 local,
regional, and national land trusts, partnered with the
Maryland Environmental Trust, and preserved over
7,000 acres of land. The rest, as it goes, is history.
“We were all working
so hard, together,
all the time, to fight
the good fight.”
Land. Towns. People.
1990-2015From kitchen table staff meetings
to conservation center ribbon-cuttings, ESLC has
come a long way in fulfilling its mission to protect and
preserve our great Eastern Shore. In pursuit of this
mission to sustain our vibrant communities and the
lands and waters that connect them, ESLC promotes
land conservation and planning, which provide public
access to open space including parks, the Chesapeake
Bay, farmland, hiking trails, urban gardens, and other
parts of the Eastern Shore’s rich heritage.
ESLC began as a conservation organization
dedicated to protecting the Eastern Shore’s spectacular
farmlands and wetlands. Our mission, though strongly
rooted in land preservation, has come to encompass a
wider definition of conservation. Since 1990 we have
expanded our efforts to include small town advocacy
and community planning. In 2011, ESLC launched the
Center for Towns, an initiative aimed at ensuring that
today’s decision-makers have the tools they need to
carefully maintain the spirited, sustainable small-towns
of the Eastern Shore for many years to come.
Lands, towns, and people—our people. Through
education and outreach, ESLC engages current
conservation and political leaders and the leaders of
tomorrow in tackling issues concerning preservation,
coastal resilience, and town advocacy. At the Sassafras
Environmental Education Center (SEEC), ESLC aims to
close the gap between children and the natural world by
improving environmental literacy through interactive
programming. We accomplish the same goal at our
annual planning conference, only for an older audience.
ESLC is, and always will be, dedicated to its people.
With that, we’d like to say a special thank you to
you, our supporters. It has been an incredible 25 years
and it is because of your commitment to conservation
and to the principles that drive ESLC that we continue
to thrive.
Thank you.
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Please make checks payable to Eastern Shore Land
Conservancy, or you may donate online at www.eslc.org.
ESLC accepts VISA and Mastercard.
A copy of our current financial statement is available upon request by con-
tacting ESLC at PO Box 169, Queenstown, MD 21658, or by calling 410-827-
9756. Documents and information submitted to the State of Maryland un-
der the Maryland Charitable Solicitations Act are available from the Office
of the Secretary of State for the cost of copying and postage.
Celebrating 25 years of loving the land.
Your support matters.
EASTERN SHORE
LAND CONSERVANCY
With your help, ESLC has
worked tirelessly to defendour
Eastern Shore for 25 years.
We’ve done it all together—from the preservation
of properties, to small-town advocacy, coastal
resiliency efforts, and educational outreach.
All of this was made possible by you and your
support. Together, let’s continue to work towards
the next 25.
Please consider giving generously to this special
anniversary appeal.
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