An unmanaged forest understory in New Quarter Park, York County, provides a wide range of community and ecosystem health benefits to the Chesapeake Bay watershed. (Photo by Evan Visconti/Virginia Mercury)
Approximately 60% of Virginia is located inside the Chesapeake Bay watershed, and those communities now have access to an updated map that shows precisely how their landscapes are changing over time.
The Chesapeake Bay Program’s land use and land cover change mapping project compares the landscape across three different snapshots in time, offering a detailed view of the watershed up to as recently as 2021…