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Heritage lands stand as powerful testaments to America’s story and visible links to our shared national legacy. Since its founding, The Conservation Fund has worked to protect America’s most historically significant and threatened landscapes: key Civil and Revolutionary War battlefields, lands and waters that commemorate the Lewis and Clark expedition and the grounds of the September 11, 2001, crash site of United Flight 93 in Pennsylvania.

Project Profiles

Civil War Battlefield Campaign

The Conservation Fund's Civil War Battlefield Campaign works in partnerships to protect our nation's hallowed ground, to provide comprehensive information on the 384 principal Civil War battlefields, designated by the Civil War Sites Advisory Commission, and to honor those that fought and died in the war. Read more>

Japanese-American Internment Camp Protection Initiative

The Conservation Fund's Japanese-American Internment Camp Protection Initiative was launched to identify and preserve historic properties at World War II-era internment camps. Read more>

Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Initiative

Through its Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Initiative, the Fund and its partners have set aside more than 25,000 acres, including 26 miles of river frontage, along the Corps of Discovery’s 1804 route from Wood River, Illinois, to the Pacific Ocean and the 1806 journey back. Read more>

Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site, CO

In a gesture of healing, the National Park Service in April 2007 dedicated the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site in remote Kiowa County. The Conservation Fund worked with the National Park Service, the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes, the Colorado Historical Society, and private landowners to acquire three tracts totaling 920 acres that created the new park unit in southeastern Colorado. Read more>

Spruce Hill Earthworks, OH

The Conservation Fund helped secure the Spruce Hill Earthworks, a walled ceremonial site in central Ohio that is thought to have been built by the Hopewell culture nearly 2,000 years ago. Read more>

State Game Lands 93: Honoring the Heroes of Flight 93

In collaboration with the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and with support from the McCune Revolving Fund, National Park Service and Richard King Mellon Foundation, The Fund and its partners are ensuring that these lands are preserved in solemn tribute to the 40 brave Americans who lost their lives near rural Shanksville, Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001. Read more>

Tonto National Forest, AZ

The Conservation Fund partnered with the landowners and the U. S. Forest Service to add twenty-eight acres to the Tonto National Forest, including areas where Hohokam people lived about 800 years ago. Read more>