MAGIC will work to protect and restore ecological
richness and biodiversity in Maryland. MAGIC goals include expanding
protected lands in Maryland and linking them to protected lands in adjacent
states. This will provide sufficient habitat and usable wildlife corridors
to make recovery of endangered species or reintroduction of extirpated
species a realizable goal. The reconnecting and rewilding of Maryland
will take many years of effort and enormous sums of money. Much of the
land is divided into thousands of small, private holdings which must
be acquired, as available, and connected together into large bio-preserves.
This is the only way to insure plants and animals will have enough habitat
to disperse their genes and continue as viable species. Biological "hot
spots" exist around streams and wetlands. It is therefore extremely
important to preserve riparian forests and wetlands which serve as eco-ducts
to upland forests. Preservation of riparian forests also insures streams
will continue to flow and water, which is so important to all species,
will remain pure.
