Navy Funds Help Preserve Lower Potomac River Landscapes - The BayNet

Navy Funds Help Preserve Lower Potomac River Landscapes - The BayNet

Nearly eight miles of shoreline along the Potomac River on Virginia’s Northern Neck have been preserved from development through a collaborative funding effort. (Estie Thomas/Virginia Outdoors Foundation) There are plenty of ecological and historical reasons to keep land next to major waterways from becoming overly developed. And then there are security reasons — and the funding they can bring to such efforts. Since 2017, the U.S. Navy’s Readine…