Forest Conservation

Green Infrastructure Plan for Central Indiana
Central Indiana is the crossroads of America. Good soils for farming, mature forests and clear running rivers and streams...

Gilchrist State Forest
In Klamath County, Oregon, about 45 miles south of the town of Bend, a former timber company town and...

Lake Ophelia And Grand Cote National Wildlife Refuges
High above the Lake Ophelia and Grand Cote national wildlife refuges in central Louisiana, hundreds of thousands of birds...

Investing in Forests at Marais des Cygnes NWR in Kansas
Supported by donations from the Fund’s voluntary carbon and climate programs, we have restored more than 775 acres of...

Mingo National Wildlife Refuge
When settlers first came to Missouri’s Bootheel region, lush bottomland hardwood forests, including giant cypress and tupelo trees, blanketed...

Red River National Wildlife Refuge
With its roots high in the Texas Panhandle, two forks of the Red River confluence at the Texas-Oklahoma border...

Four State Forest
The Northern Forest rises from the Tug Hill Plateau in central New York and stretches across Vermont, New Hampshire,...

Franklin Land Trust, Massachusetts
Rich Hubbard’s phone rings often. As director of the Franklin Land Trust in western Massachusetts, Hubbard fields multiple calls...

Garcia River Forest
Some of America’s favorite forests are the redwoods along California’s north coast, known for its raw beauty and rich...

Forestland Around Fort Stewart in Georgia
At more than 279,000 acres, Fort Stewart is the largest Army installation east of the Mississippi River. The Army Compatible Use...

Farm and Wilderness Camp, Vermont
The Fund helped protect more than 440 acres of private forests, ridgeline and vista near the village of Plymouth,...

Headwaters State Forest
Situated on the North and South Carolina border and connecting to more than more than 100,000 acres of existing...

How We Helped Build a Historic and Sustainable Tall Ship in California
The Conservation Fund supports efforts to protect places where children can get outdoors and learn about nature. Often those...

Fiery Gizzard Trail
Fiery Gizzard is a place many Tennesseans hold dear. It is the heart of the South Cumberland Plateau and...

Downeast And Eastern Maine
Eastern Maine and its famed coastal area known as Downeast Maine has a one-of-a-kind beauty, with pristine forests, clean...

A Comeback for the South's Longleaf Pine in Alabama and Florida
Longleaf pine forests once covered as much as 90 million acres from Virginia to Texas. Today, this habitat has...

Strategic Conservation for Kona, Hawai'i
The Kona, Hawaii, Community Development Plan provides a strategic framework for guiding future land development and conservation decisions in...

Circle R Ranch
Scenic ranches along the West’s great rivers rarely come onto the market—and even more rarely become publicly owned. The...

Buckeye Forest
California Forests Paying Dividends
Gazing out over Buckeye Forest, the swaths of redwoods that blanket California’s North Coast look idle,...

Budd Ranches, Inc.
The Fund helped with the conservation and expansion of one of the oldest operating ranches held by one family...

Camden Farm
For the past 300 years, seven generations of the Pratt family have lived at Camden Farm on the banks...

Former Carney Ranch (CRC Ranch)
Carney Ranch forms the most important piece of the Path of the Pronghorn’s “Funnel Bottleneck” for pronghorn antelope migrating...

Bobcat Ridge
To save some of America’s best forests before they become shopping malls, vineyards or subdivisions, we deploy our Working...

Brule-St. Croix Legacy Forest
Working forests define the northern Wisconsin landscape, providing timber for the state’s mills, jobs for local residents, tax revenues...

Big River And Salmon Creek Forests
Although Northern California’s coastal forests have long supported abundant wildlife and a thriving economy—nearly 40 percent of the value...

Optimizing Farmland Protection in Baltimore County
With one of the nation’s most established farmland preservation efforts, Baltimore County in 2006 reached a major milestone: preserving...

Preserving Farms and Natural Areas in the Ann Arbor Greenbelt
The Ann Arbor Greenbelt is an innovative long-term land preservation program to curb the negative effects of development and...

Adirondack Park
Encompassing one-third of the total land area of New York State, Adirondack Park is a unique collection of public...

Admiralty Island National Monument
Located in Tongass National Forest, Admiralty Island National Monument encompasses the majestic landscapes emblematic of Alaska. Here, the remote,...

Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge
The elusive and solitary ocelot, a small wild cat with markings similar to a leopard or jaguar, once roamed...