Bobcat Ridge
Bobcat Ridge. Photo by Buck Vaughan/The Conservation Fund
To save some of America’s best forests before they become shopping malls, vineyards or subdivisions, we deploy our New Forest Fund, a dedicated source of capital. Our goal is to purchase and manage key forests as working land that’s sustainably harvested, providing timber revenue, jobs, clean water and wildlife habitat at the same time.
In 2011, we tapped the New Forest Fund to purchase a 7,000-acre property in eastern Texas known as Bobcat Ridge, which includes 11 miles of the Neches River. We hope to add part of this land to the Neches River National Wildlife Refuge and protect the rest through voluntary conservation agreements with buyers.
We launched our New Forest Fund in 2009. Find out more about this conservation tool and how is it different from other types of financing.
