Bay Hundred Project Team: Having just completed their pilot project in the lower Choptank, testing strategies for increasing residential and agricultural best management practices on private lands, the team is working with Envision partners to extend several strategies, including the use of Landowner Assistance Coordinators, throughout the watershed.
INSR Water Quality Improvement Project Team: Using funds from a NFWF INSR grant, the team is focused on accelerating the implementation of riparian buffers, wetland restoration, and drainage ditch management practices. The team is carrying out a prioritization analysis to identify the best locations for these practices and developing incentive programs to build off of or provide an alternative to existing cost-share programs.
Easton Stream Restoration Project Team: Using designs developed through a NOAA grant, the team was recently awarded a Chesapeake and Atlantic Coastal Bays Trust Fund grant to complete the restoration of 2 streams (construction to start in 2020). Envision partners are connecting local schools and volunteers to the effort.
Engaging Underserved Communities Working Group: Over the next few months, the group will be 1) organizing a Recognizing Implicit Bias training (open to all Envision members) and 2) completing an inventory of communities experiencing localized flooding to help identify areas with challenges that impact human health and the environment.
Working with Local Government Working Group: Group members are currently working to find ways to improve coordination across agencies and departments; and assist jurisdictions by providing 1) natural resource info and language to aid comprehensive plan updates and 2) project design/engineering assistance.