Cultural Conservation

A rugged landscape that attracts hikers and campers who like a challenge, Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park...

Rising up from the desert soil and hidden in the canyon walls of the Canyons of the Ancients National...

President Theodore Roosevelt established Mesa Verde National Park more than 100 years ago, protecting historic cliff dwellings and other...

150 years ago, at dawn, in a dry creek bed in southeast Colorado, a troop of nearly 700 Colorado...

Considered a sacred place by the Lakota, Wind Cave is one of the longest and most complex caves in...

As a legacy to the nation and in honor of the extraordinary journey of Lewis and Clark, The Conservation...

The Conservation Fund has deep roots in east Texas, where we’ve worked to protect roughly 33,000 acres of Big Thicket...

Cave Creek, only 25 miles north of the greater Phoenix metropolitan area, is one of the few perennial streams...

As part of the Japanese American Internment Camp Preservation Initiative, we protected 13 acres at the Topaz Relocation Center for the...

As Director of the Civil War Battlefield Campaign (1988-2006), Frances H. Kennedy worked with The Conservation Fund and many partners to...

Of the many adventures in the New World documented by English explorer Captain John Smith, perhaps none is more...

Nonviolent protests and acts of civil disobedience powered the civil rights movement, making activists out of ordinary people wanting...

September 11, 2001 is one of the most tragic days in our nation’s history. Nearly 3,000 people died as...

The town of Groton, Connecticut, has a long history dating to before its incorporation in 1705, and the 63-acre...

Located in the waters between Vancouver Island to the west and Washington State to the east – and  just a short...

The Sand Creek Massacre is one of the most tragic events in America’s history, and marked a major turning...

Arizona’s Petrified Forest is famous for its expansive vistas—stark moon-like landscapes and the colorful eroding badlands of the Painted...

Stretching more than 2,300 miles from Three Forks, Montana, to St. Louis, Missouri, where it joins the Mississippi River,...

On June 28, 1778, General George Washington’s Continental Army attacked the British just outside Monmouth Court House in New...

Hundreds of years before Europeans came to America, the Cherokee people inhabited the southeastern United States in parts of...

At the start of World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, authorizing the forced relocation...

Nominated for a listing on the National Register of Historic Places, the city of Lithonia, just outside Atlanta, includes...

Long fascinated by what lay west of the Mississippi River, President Thomas Jefferson in 1803 commissioned Captain Meriwether Lewis...

Harriet Tubman was a true American hero. Born on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, Tubman spent nearly 30 years of her...

In 1902, legendary African-American guide Holt Collier led President Theodore Roosevelt and his entourage through the canebrakes and virgin...

The most extraordinary achievements of the Hopewell people were the huge earthworks they built, including walls of stone and earth...

Significant portions of Animas Creek in the heart of Gila National Forest are now protected from potential development, thanks to an...

The Fund protects the landscapes that define America’s history. That’s why we worked with a group of partners to...

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

Delaware’s Brandywine Valley represents the very start of America—a place where General Washington fought for independence, Benjamin Franklin printed...