In November 2011, we helped save nearly 4,500 acres of vital bottomland hardwood forests along a stretch of the Neches River known as Boggy Slough.

This year’s harvest season for the Snead’s Farm in western Caroline County has yielded more than just produce and Christmas trees. We worked with with Fort A.P. Hill and the Virginia Outdoors Foundation to place a land preservation agreement on Emmett Snead III’s pick-your-own style farm.

We helped permanently protect the Ben Delatour Scout Ranch, a 3,201-acre property located 40 miles northwest of Fort Collins, Colorado. A conservation agreement on the Ranch secures one of the last, large forested properties in the Cache la Poudre watershed.

Our Freshwater Institute is benefiting from a donation of technology and expertise from YSI, a developer and manufacturer of water quality monitoring and testing equipment.

In 2011, the Fund completed another project along the Path of the Pronghorn, saving 1,000 acres along this migration path—the longest land mammal migration route in the continental United States.

Another 825 acres of land has been added to Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge. The Tideland parcel along the Nanticoke River the first purchase of land within the Nanticoke Unit of the refuge boundary and conserves two tracts of land.

The Fund helped added 325 acres to Canaan Valley National Wildlife Refuge in West Virginia. The acquisition completes a multi-phase effort to protect one of the largest undeveloped areas of land within the refuge boundary.

The Fund is proud to recognize one of our partners in conservation, David Ramsey of Unicoi, TN, for being named Field & Stream’s Conservation Hero of the Year for his extraordinary efforts to save Rocky Fork

As part of a long-time effort to preserve and enhance the Fish Creek Natural Area Greenway, the City of Maplewood in Minnesota and the Fund added a key 70-acre, two-parcel property in the southern part of the City.

Annual Kodak American Greenways Program recognizes leaders in greenways preservation, provides grants to local projects.