Land Acquisition & Planning Unit Staff Contacts

Land Acquisition and Planning has now reorganized into five focus groups to continue the forty-year legacy of land acquisition in the state of Maryland. Land Acquisition and Planning (LAP) has three core functions: Land Conservation, Stewardship and Community Resilience (Local Support).

The LAP team is organized into these five focus groups.

Land Conservation

State Land Acquisition, Program Open Space – State side

Rural Legacy Program

CREP easements, Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program

Federal Grants

Dept. of General Service Collaboration, and

Board of Public Works Relations

Stewardship

Administers DNR-wide Stewardship Teams

Prioritization of state acquisitions

Project review of requests which propose to alter DNR Real Property interests

Interdepartmental and interagency coordination

Liaison and collaborative efforts with land management units

Curatorships

Legal Agreements processing

Trails Planning

Community Resilience (Local Support)

Local Acquisitions & Development, Program Open Space Local Side

Community Parks & Playgrounds Grants, and

Local Government partnerships.

Real Property

Asset Inventory and Management System (AIMS) project management

State Lands Boundary Inventory

Title and survey research and evaluation of priority acquisition projects

Survey contract management for state acquisitions

Boundary Recovery training, assistance and management

LAP Management

This group manages the day to day operations of the LAP unit and provides vital support functions to the different teams.