Press Releases
The 178-acre Tynan Ranch, located one-half mile from the current urban growth line of the City of Watsonville, serves as an important buffer between the city and farmland.
The Conservation Fund, Fort Stewart-Hunter Army Airfield and the Georgia-Alabama Land Trust announced the protection of 3,800 acres along the Altamaha River that will preserve a corridor of undeveloped land within Fort Stewart’s Army Compatible Use Buffer.
On October 27, Atlanta partners held a ribbon cutting to celebrate the long-anticipated grand opening of an English Avenue greenspace, Mattie Freeland Park.
The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation today announced the acquisition of an additional 838 acres of land for Fall Creek Falls State Park. The acquisition is the result of collaboration between many partners such as the TennGreen Land Conservancy, The Nature Conservancy in Tennessee, and The Conservation Fund and purchased with the support of the Open Space Institute and the Lyndhurst Foundation.
On October 5, we were honored to join the National Park Service, Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribal leaders, and key partners to dedicate the addition of 3,500 acres to the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site in eastern Colorado — a place that commemorates the traumatic events of the 1864 massacre.
National Park Service leaders along with representatives from the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, numerous statewide and regional partners in land conservation, and other local leaders marked National Public Lands Day by celebrating ongoing conservation efforts protecting the Blue Ridge Parkway at and around Waterrock Knob.
The new state forest will increase recreational access, water quality protections and wildlife habitat in northwestern North Carolina.
The Conservation Fund, a leading land conservation organization in the U.S., is honored to receive the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s National Land Protection Award.