Forest Conservation

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

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

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

Supported by donations from the Fund’s voluntary carbon and climate programs, we have restored more than 775 acres of...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Conservation Fund supports efforts to protect places where children can get outdoors and learn about nature. Often those...

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

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

Longleaf pine forests once covered as much as 90 million acres from Virginia to Texas. Today, this habitat has...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Working forests define the northern Wisconsin landscape, providing timber for the state’s mills, jobs for local residents, tax revenues...

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

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

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

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

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

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