The Fund teamed up with the U.S. Forest Service to protect sensitive shoreline along three popular lakes in the national forest.
Read more>Continuing to conserve open space along the Mississippi River, the Fund joined forces with the Paul Bunyan Trail Association, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources and Parks and Trails Council of Minnesota to acquire 400 acres of recreation lands from Potlatch Corporation, protecting nearly two miles of the Mississippi River.
Read more>A generous lead grant from the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation has enabled the Fund and its partners to protect nearly 20,000 acres, valued at nearly $56 million, within the Great Lakes Basin, the nation's most significant freshwater ecosystem.
Read more>In partnership with The Nature Conservancy, the Fund is protecting a large block of working forest at the headwaters of the Manitou and Baptism Rivers – primary tributaries to Lake Superior.
Read more>The Conservation Fund, part of the Minnesota Forest Legacy Partnership, is working with landowners, loggers, outdoor enthusiasts and communities to preserve Minnesota's forests for timber, jobs, outdoor recreation and wildlife habitat.
Read more>In a landmark conservation deal, Minnesota has taken a major step to protect valuable wildlife habitat in its Northwoods region.
Read more>In partnership with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and The McKnight Foundation, the Fund acquired 70 acres of critical migratory bird habitat as part of an 845-acre addition to the refuge.
Read more>Since 1994, the Fund and its partners have protected more than 14,400 acres of important wildlife habitat and recreation lands along the great river valued at over $19.6 million.
Read more>To protect this uniquely American landscape, The Conservation Fund has, since 1985, joined with public agencies, private land trusts and landowners to safeguard more than 52,000 acres of recreation areas, wetlands, working forests and wilderness in the Upper Midwest.
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