Parsons Island Conservation and Regeneration Plan

1.Disappearing islands of the Chesapeake.By Jiali LI

2.From parsons points to parsons island.By Jiali LI

3.A View From the East. By Jiali LI

4.Site character. By Jiali LI

5.Culture： the solutrean hypothesis. By Jiali LI

6.Ecology ： Chesapeake Island Habitats.By Jiali LI

7.Resiliency：The Last Island Standing.By Jiali LI

8.Goals & strategies. By Jiali LI

9.Sticks. By Jiali LI

10.Stones. By Jiali LI

11.Sediment. By Jiali LI

12.Conversation & Regeneration plan. By Jiali LI

13.Plan elements. By Jiali LI

14.Northern island. By Jiali LI

15.Southern Islan. By Jiali LI

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Hundreds of islands have vanished beneath the waters of the Chesapeake Bay. Since 1850, this includes approximately 10,500 acres of island habitat as well as an unknown number of invaluable cultural and archaeological artifacts, some dating back 20,000 years. Land subsidence, rising sea level, and wave-induced erosion, both natural and anthropogenic all contribute to and compound this ongoing and accelerating landscape saga. The Parsons Island Conservation and Regeneration Plan proposes to collocate opportunities for cultural resource conservation, habitat regeneration, and resiliency enhancements on this unique Chesapeake Bay island as both a means and method to catalyze collective action and stimulate impactful stewardship. Considered within the context of large-scale, federally funded island restoration projects in the Chesapeake Bay, this cooperative and adaptive undertaking represents a new approach in addressing the loss of valuable islands in the nation’s largest estuary.