Chesapeake Bay Landscape Professional Living Shoreline Training certificate (CBLP-Shorelines)
Living Shorelines for the Coastal Plain
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CBLP-Shorelines is a comprehensive series of professional development workshops that prepares existing CBLPs and professionals working along the shoreline to add Living Shoreline services to their business offerings.
Upcoming trainings:
July 11, 17, 18 & 31st | Norfolk VA
August 27th-29th and September 13 | West River, MD
Registration for the 2024 session will open in May
Workshops are delivered in a hybrid format that combines online and classroom learning with practical field experiences. Instructors are experienced shoreline professionals from the public and private sectors. Content focuses on foundational knowledge, site assessment, planning and design, permitting, constructing, monitoring, and maintaining living shorelines projects.
The program was developed and piloted in Virginia in 2022-23 in partnership with the Living Shoreline Collaborative, a group of regional and state partners in Virginia, convened by the James River Association (JRA), and funded through a National Fish and Wildlife Foundation grant. Work began in late 2023, with funding from Maryland DNR, to adapt the training for Maryland audiences.