Cultural Conservation
Wind Cave National Park
Considered a sacred place by the Lakota, Wind Cave is one of the longest and most complex caves in...
Traveler's Rest
As a legacy to the nation and in honor of the extraordinary journey of Lewis and Clark, The Conservation...
Texas Pineywoods Experience
The Conservation Fund has deep roots in east Texas, where we’ve worked to protect roughly 33,000 acres of Big Thicket...
Tonto National Forest
Cave Creek, only 25 miles north of the greater Phoenix metropolitan area, is one of the few perennial streams...
Topaz Relocation Center
As part of the Japanese American Internment Camp Preservation Initiative, we protected 13 acres at the Topaz Relocation Center for the...
Books on Civil War Battlefield and American Revolution Conservation
As Director of the Civil War Battlefield Campaign (1988-2006), Frances H. Kennedy worked with The Conservation Fund and many partners to...
Werowocomoco
Of the many adventures in the New World documented by English explorer Captain John Smith, perhaps none is more...
Freedom Riders National Monument
Nonviolent protests and acts of civil disobedience powered the civil rights movement, making activists out of ordinary people wanting...
State Game Lands 93
September 11, 2001 is one of the most tragic days in our nation’s history. Nearly 3,000 people died as...
Saving A 300-Year-Old Colonial Settlement Site In Connecticut
The town of Groton, Connecticut, has a long history dating to before its incorporation in 1705, and the 63-acre...
Remembering the Sand Creek Massacre
150 years ago, at dawn, in a dry creek bed in southeast Colorado, a troop of nearly 700 Colorado...
San Juan Island National Historical Park
Located in the waters between Vancouver Island to the west and Washington State to the east – and just a short...
Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site
The Sand Creek Massacre is one of the most tragic events in America’s history, and marked a major turning...
Petrified Forest National Park
Arizona’s Petrified Forest is famous for its expansive vistas—stark moon-like landscapes and the colorful eroding badlands of the Painted...
Missouri River Restoration
Stretching more than 2,300 miles from Three Forks, Montana, to St. Louis, Missouri, where it joins the Mississippi River,...
Monmouth Battlefield State Park
On June 28, 1778, General George Washington’s Continental Army attacked the British just outside Monmouth Court House in New...
Cherokee National Forest and the Trail of Tears
Hundreds of years before Europeans came to America, the Cherokee people inhabited the southeastern United States in parts of...
Mesa Verde National Park
President Theodore Roosevelt established Mesa Verde National Park more than 100 years ago, protecting historic cliff dwellings and other...
Minidoka National Historic Site
At the start of World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, authorizing the forced relocation...
Lithonia
Nominated for a listing on the National Register of Historic Places, the city of Lithonia, just outside Atlanta, includes...
Lewis and Clark National Historical Park
Long fascinated by what lay west of the Mississippi River, President Thomas Jefferson in 1803 commissioned Captain Meriwether Lewis...
Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Monument
Harriet Tubman was a true American hero. Born on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, Tubman spent nearly 30 years of her...
Holt Collier National Wildlife Refuge
In 1902, legendary African-American guide Holt Collier led President Theodore Roosevelt and his entourage through the canebrakes and virgin...
Hopewell Spruce Hill Earth Works
The most extraordinary achievements of the Hopewell people were the huge earthworks they built, including walls of stone and earth...
Gila National Forest
Significant portions of Animas Creek in the heart of Gila National Forest are now protected from potential development, thanks to an...
Fort Davis National Historic Site
The Fund protects the landscapes that define America’s history. That’s why we worked with a group of partners to...
Franklin Land Trust, Massachusetts
Rich Hubbard’s phone rings often. As director of the Franklin Land Trust in western Massachusetts, Hubbard fields multiple calls...
First State National Historical Park
Delaware’s Brandywine Valley represents the very start of America—a place where General Washington fought for independence, Benjamin Franklin printed...
Civil War Battlefield Conservation: Missouri
Pilot Knob
Missouri’s vital role in the Civil War peaked in the late summer of 1864. Each side needed decisive...
Civil War Battlefield Conservation: New Mexico
Glorieta Pass
In March 1862, while Confederates from Texas battled a combined force of U. S. Regulars and volunteers from...
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