Growing faster and sprawling farther than any human settlement in recent United States history, Atlanta has been losing an average of 500 acres of forests, farmland, and green space to development each week. So the community set a goal to create a green infrastructure of linked parks, greenways, and wild lands.
Read more>To help preserve the Piedmont region’s dwindling hardwood forests and pine ecosystems, the Fund worked closely with its partners to purchase a conservation easement on 2,500 acres of woodlands and streams in central Georgia.
Read more>The Fund purchased 230 critical acres along the West Fork of the Chattooga River.
Read more>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>The Conservation Fund facilitated an unusual land exchange that will benefit both the environment and elementary school children.
Read more>The Fund is working to revitalize the 19th century town of Lithonia, a gateway community to the Arabia Mountain Heritage Area.
Read more>Working with The Conservation Fund and local groups, the Arthur M. Blank Foundation is expanding parks and open space in this fast-growing city.
Read more>The Conservation Fund is working with partner programs such as the Centex Land Legacy Fund to protect working forests in Georgia and across the nation.
Read more>For nearly two decades, the Alabama Trails Association, The Conservation Fund, Georgia Pinhoti Trails Association and others have worked to protect more than 7,000 acres and add more than 200 miles to the Pinhoti Trail across Alabama and Georgia.
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