Causes: Environment, Land Resources Conservation

Mission: The mission of the Eastern Shore Land Conservancy (ESLC) is to sustain the Eastern Shore's rich landscapes through strategic land conservation and sound land use planning. When Eastern Shore Land Conservancy was founded in 1990, the founding Directors shared a fervent dedication to the future of this matchless association of land, rivers, resources, and community called the Eastern Shore. And they shared a common concern that sprawling development patterns typical of the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay and many other areas of the Mid-Atlantic region was increasingly eroding these special attributes of the Eastern Shore. Even in the face of staggering development trends of the past few years, it is extraordinary how unfaltering the Board of Directors has remained to achieving that end.