Greater Baltimore Wilderness Coalition

Inner Harbor

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Masonville Cove Environmental Education Center

Engage communities where we aren’t presentNurture appreciation for wildlife conservation

Where:We don’t currently have an urban refugeSignificant population centerOpportunities to leverage other efforts

Urban Wildlife Refuge Initiative

Metropolitan Greenspaces AllianceGreater Baltimore Wilderness

Greater Baltimore Wilderness Coalition: Strengthening community connections to nature in the

Greater Baltimore region

• Resilience• Biodiversity• Equity• Discovery

• Sea Level Rise• Wave Impacts• Storm Surge• Flooding

Green Infrastructure Solutions

Green Infrastructure Solutions

Greater Baltimore Wilderness Coalition:

Coastal Resilience Project

Adjusting our Green Infrastructure vision:

What will happen given SLR and Inland flooding projections?

Four Principal Objectives• Comprehensively map existing green

infrastructure contributing to coastal storm resilience

• Identify & prioritize green infrastructure protection and enhancement opportunities

• Evaluate best governance structures to advance expanded green infrastructure coastal resiliency network

• Broaden and deepen institutional and practitioner networks for regional green infrastructure

Greater Baltimore Wilderness Coalition: Strengthening community connections to nature in the

Greater Baltimore region

• Resilience • Biodiversity• Equity• Discovery

How Do We Get There?

Collective Impact

Condition # 4 – Mutually Reinforcing Activities

Refuge Urban Partnership Chesapeake Bay Program TCF Baltimore Urban Waters Partnership Bay

Program Baltimore City MD DNR County EPA The Chesapeake Bay Trust FWS Chesapeake Bay Program FWS Baltimore-Was County Government Gwynns Falls Urban Partnership EPA Masonville Cove NFWF DOD Gwynn Falls  EPA EPA Bay Program DOD NPS NWF DNR Parks Baltimore City Foundation The Nature Conservancy The Chesapeake Gwynns Falls Baltimore City County Government DOD Chesapeake NPS Trust  Chesapeake Bay Program NWF Baltimore-Washington Partners for Forest Stewardship MD Partnership for Children In Nature Parks and People Foundation Masonville Cove Bay Program MD DNR The Chesapeake Conservancy Nature ConservancyBaltimore-Washington Partners for Forest Stewardship

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Looking Ahead

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