Places We Work

Paddlers have a great new website for navigating the Southeast Coast Saltwater Paddling Trail (SECT). This extensive trail allows for travel along an unbroken trail of tidal marshes and rivers more than 760 miles along the coasts of Virginia, North Carolina,… Read More

Located in DeKalb County, just 20 minutes from downtown Atlanta, Arabia Mountain is widely valued for its granite outcrops, abundant wildflowers and quiet streams. The conservation of lands at Arabia Mountain is part of a larger effort to save green… Read More

Two hundred years ago, the “piney woods” of folk songs were a vast forest sweeping across 90 million acres from Virginia to Texas. The longleaf pine tree towered over the South, sheltering the white-top pitcher plant and the red-cockaded woodpecker… Read More

If parks are the green heart of a city, Atlanta is undergoing some much needed care. With funding from the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation, the Fund conducted an assessment of open space protection opportunities. The results showed that Atlanta has… Read More

Clean air. Clean Water. Good jobs. Revenue to support education. Our challenge is balancing these pressing issues to sustain economic growth and quality of life. An often-overlooked piece of this sustainability equation in Georgia is 22 million acres of commercial… Read More

Did you know that forestry is the largest manufacturing sector in Georgia? Forests are a critical part of the state’s economy.  Unfortunately, in recent years across the country, including areas throughout the Southeast,  more than 10 million acres of private forest… Read More

The nearly 8,400-acre Silver Lake Wildlife Management Area sits in the southwest corner of Georgia, near Bainbridge. The Fund purchased this property in 2007 from International Paper, which had managed it as part of a private forestry research site for… Read More

Nominated for a listing on the National Register of Historic Places, the city of Lithonia, just outside Atlanta, includes a historic African-American community with deep roots in the region. The Conservation Fund has helped restore one of the country’s oldest… Read More

Rocky Face Ridge is the site of the start of the Union Army’s Atlanta Campaign. U.S. Major General Sherman, with his 110,100-man army group, opened the Atlanta Campaign on May 8 with an attack on General Johnston’s 54,500 Confederates on… Read More