Mitigation Projects

Mark Twain put Hannibal, Missouri, on the map. The tranquil landscapes of his boyhood town on the Mississippi River...

The establishment of Vinton Furnace State Experimental Forest in 2010 is a great example of the Fund’s ongoing effort to conserve...

NiSource Inc. (NiSource), a Fortune 500 natural gas transmission and storage company, operates a 15,500 linear mile network of...

The Conservation Fund established the 10,000-acre Palmetto-Peartree Preserve in 1999 with funding from the North Carolina Department of Transportation....

The "Range-wide Indiana Bat In-Lieu Fee Program" provides a practical mitigation option for unavoidable adverse impacts to Indiana bats...

As America’s demand for energy grows, providers are making major new investments in infrastructure. The emerging Rockies Express Pipeline...

Desert tortoises were once one of the West’s most abundant reptiles, but their populations have declined 90 percent since...

Across Wyoming’s Green River Basin, grazing pronghorn and vibrating drill rigs cast shadows on the horizon. These unlikely neighbors...

The Fund facilitated the purchase of more than 240 acres along the main stem of the Flathead River, just...

Warblers, wood thrushes and whip-poor-wills migrating through Illinois gained more room to stretch their wings, thanks to the efforts...

Conservation banking is experiencing unprecedented interest and demand across the country. A mitigation technique first popularized in California and...

In west central Wyoming, the 75,000-acre Cottonwood Ranches owned by cattle rancher Freddie Botur have sustained his family’s way...

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

If you’ve never seen a desert tortoise, you’re not alone. This extremely elusive creature spends 95 percent of its...