The Trust for Public Land, in San Francisco, is planning to buy large parcels of land along the Chesapeake Bay, in Maryland, and later sell them to local governments to protect as open space, reports The Sun, in Baltimore.

The plan would help preserve the land that the government may not be able to acquire in the short term because of a lack of cash. The trust has preserved more than 8,000 acres of land in Maryland since 1985, the paper reports.

“The concept is parks for people that will in turn protect the bay,” Rose Harvey, the trust’s Mid-Atlantic regional director, tells the Sun. “We call it green-printing.”

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