Projects

Through our Land Trust Loan Program, we’ve helped local land trusts protect more than 95,000 acres across 30 states—lands valued at nearly $200 million. Together, we’ve conserved battlefields, state parks, natural areas, forests, farms, historic sites, trails and more. Here are just a few:

• Silvio O. Conte National Fish And Wildlife Refuge

  

  The Fund helps communities save their favorite outdoor places. This was the case in 2011 when a local land trust wanted to save 32 acres in the town of Hadley from development. The property had been subdivided into four house lots and… Read More

• Saving A 300-Year-Old Colonial Settlement Site In Connecticut

  

  The town of Groton, Connecticut, has a long history dating to before its incorporation in 1705, and the 63-acre Sheep Farm property is part of that history. When the Groton Open Space Association (GOSA), which works to save historic and… Read More

• Historic Waterfront, Southampton

  

  Over the past 25 years, the community of New Suffolk in Southampton, New York, has rallied to protect the coastal hamlet’s historic waterfront from encroaching residential and commercial development.  Today, the property that has been described as the village’s “living… Read More

• Brandywine Battlefield: A Revolutionary War Historic Site

  

  When America declared its independence from Britain on July 4, 1776, a long and fierce fight was just beginning to unfold across the farms and meadows of our new nation. The American Revolution lasted more than five grueling years—and forever… Read More

• Farm Creek Preserve, Norwalk

  

  Sometimes big conservation can be accomplished by small organizations—particularly with some help from The Conservation Fund. Take, for example, the Norwalk Land Trust in Connecticut. An all-volunteer group with an annual budget of less than $10,000, the trust just purchased… Read More