Louisiana

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

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

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

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

The Conservation Fund helped the State of Louisiana establish this nearly 68,000-acre expanse of cypress-tupelo swamp as a wildlife management area.  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>