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Help Us Protect America’s Harvest

Here at the Fund we’re committed to protecting America’s working landscapes - the forests, farms and ranches that define our horizon – and history.





iPhorest
Grow a virtual tree with this app for iPhone! For every virtual tree purchased, we plant a real one!
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Halls Every Drop Makes a Difference

Join Halls® and The Conservation Fund as we preserve, restore, and protect one of America's most precious natural resources, our trees. Click here for more information.



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Donate your Delta Air Lines frequent flyer miles to the Fund and help us save the outdoors!
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Four Stars and an A +

We earn four stars from Charity Navigator and an A+ from the
American Institute for Philanthropy.

 

Charity Navigator 4-Star Charity
A+ from the American Institute for Philanthropy

Forestry
Redwood trees

 

America’s forests shelter wildlife, provide jobs, trap carbon, and more. But our privately-owned forests are for sale. We’re leading efforts to save this treasured landscape.

 

Forestry Hub Page

 

Climate Change Projects

 

North Coast Forest
Conservation Initiative

 

Hoke Community Forest, North Carolina

 

Q & A: What is community forestry?

 

 

 

Read the CNBC.com article, "Certified Forest Products: A Great Choice for the Environment" written by the Fund's CEO, Larry Selzer.

Video: Greater Sage Grouse

In Wyoming, the sage grouse population has declined an estimated 70% in the last 50 years. Learn about how our mitigation work helps to protect habitat for wildlife like the sage grouse. Click on the video below to see a male strut his stuff - it's quite a sight!

 

Video courtesy of Gail Patricelli, UC Davis

 

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The Fund in Action
Go Long: The Future of Longleaf Pine
Longleaf pine once swept across the entire Southeast—now only 3% remains. We're mapping its future so conservation can be done right.
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FLTFA Reauthorization
The Federal Land Transaction Facilitation Act (FLTFA):
Find out what it is and why it is important.
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Protecting our National Parks
We've partnered with the National Park Service on projects across the country.
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Rocky Mountain Front Initiative
With our partners, we are working to protect 220,000 acres of wildlife habitat along Montana's Rocky Mountain Front.
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The Freshwater Institute
Dr. Steve Summerfelt is featured in Fish Farming International's article, "One aquaculture scientist is putting forward a radical concept: research that pays off."
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Go Fish! Take our quiz about freshwater.

Put the Fund on your desktop!
Download images from in and around places we help protect! Check back every Monday for a new featured image.


Brandywine Battlefield, Pennsylvania - Revoluntionary War Battlefield

Brandywine Battlefield, Pennsylvania
Photo: Chita Middleton/The Conservation Fund

 

Part of our mission is to protect America’s historically significant landscapes. One of the biggest battles of the Revolutionary War took place at the Brandywine Battlefield in Pennsylvania. Click here to learn more about our work saving this land. To read more about our work saving historic landscapes, click here.

 

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Photo Galleries: Places We Protect

 

Take a tour of some of the landscapes we've worked to protect and learn more about our projects. View breathtaking images from Wyoming, Montana, Tennessee and more.

 

© Greg Hutson Photography/wghutson@bellsouth.netRocky Fork, Tennessee
Photo: Greg Hutson

 

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Upcoming Courses and Events

January 25-29, 2010
Balancing Nature and Commerce in Communities that Neighbor Public Lands

National Conservation Training Center (NCTC) in Shepherdstown, WV

Application Deadline: December 11, 2009.


 

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