The Friends of Dragon Run and Chesapeake Conservancy announced Monday the permanent conservation of more than 650 acres of essential wildlife habitat along Dragon Run, a blackwater stream with associated swamps that flows into the Piankatank River and ultimately the Chesapeake Bay. This achievement marks a major milestone in decades of collaborative, landscape-scale conservation in one of the Chesapeake Bay watershed’s most ecologically intact landscapes, stated a release from the Friends of the Dragon Run. The Dragon Run is a brackish water, tidal/non-tidal stream which flows 40 miles through Gloucester, Mathews, King and Queen and Essex counties. Blackwater is a slow-moving waterway, commonly found in forested swamps or wetlands, characterized by tea-colored or dark, transparent water. This deep color results from high concentrations of tannic acids released by decaying vegetation, often giving the water a low pH (acidic). The newly conserved land protects more than 2.5 miles of Drag...