Louisiana

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Louisiana is home to many of the Fund's most significant efforts and achievements in reforestation and carbon sequestration. Including its work to protect and restore Catahoula National Wildlife Refuge and Red River National Wildlife Refuge, the Fund and its partners have helped to safeguard more than 150,000 acres here.

Catahoula National Wildlife Refuge

In the nation’s first large-scale carbon sequestration project, the Fund joined forces with American Electric Power, Environmental Synergy Inc., and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 2001 to protect and restore more than 18,000 acres of bottomland hardwood forest near Catahoula Lake in central Louisiana. Read more>

Civil War Battlefield Conservation, LA

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>

Lake Pontchartrain, Basin, LA

In the heart of Louisiana's commercial and recreational fisheries region, the Fund, in partnership with the Richard King Mellon Foundation and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, has protected more than 40,000 acres of the Lake Pontchartrain ecosystem, creating the Big Branch Marsh and Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife Refuges. Read more>

Manchac Wildlife Management Area, LA

The Conservation Fund and its partners, supported by the Richard King Mellon Foundation, have protected more than 70,000 acres in the Manchac Wildlife Management Area, including 7,400 acres secured in 2005. Read more>

Maurepas Swamp Wildlife Management Area, LA

The Fund assisted the Richard King Mellon Foundation in securing one of the largest unfragmented blocks of cypress/tupelo swamp in the United States. Read more>

Mississippi River Revolving Fund

Thanks to a lead grant from the McKnight Foundation, the $2.9 million Mississippi River Revolving Fund was established in 1994 to aid in the protection of wetlands, wildlife habitat, working landscapes, greenways and other natural areas in the ten states of the Mississippi River Corridor - from Minnesota to Louisiana. Read more>

Red River National Wildlife Refuge

The Conservation Fund joined forces with Entergy Corporation, Environmental Synergy, Inc., and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to create America's newest Wildlife Refuge--the Red River National Wildlife Refuge. Read more>