The Conservation Fund

As consumer demand for fresh, local food has grown, so have instances of foodborne diseases. Certification in Good Agricultural...

Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport is best known for a few things: It’s the world’s busiest airport, seeing over 100,000,000 passengers every year.  It’s massive and employs...

It all started with a neighbor’s goats and the question: “Can we milk ‘em to make cheese?” With that,...

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

The Fund worked with the Wyoming Game and Fish Department on a land conservation agreement that secures key wildlife...

Keeping with the Fund’s goal to save favorite outdoor places, we helped the City of Maplewood acquire 70 acres...

The Chelan County Public Utility District (PUD) in Washington State produces over four million juvenile anadromous and resident Pacific...

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

Manatee. Florida Panther.  Two well-known endangered species.  We’ve helped with conservation efforts to save habitat for both these animals;...

Michael Shor, Dale Freudenberger and Hardy LeGwin had a vision—to make solar energy mainstream. They roughed out a business...

Though the region is surrounded by large agricultural lands, half of North Carolina’s “food deserts” are located in the...

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

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

These peaceful, pine-covered bluffs overlooking the Mobile-Tensaw Delta in southern Alabama once witnessed one of the last battles of...

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

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...

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

For more than 80 years, the Acacia Country Club, and its Donald Ross-designed golf course, was a fixture in...

Connecticut brothers Ted and Zeb Esselstyn, co-founders of City Bench, create one-of-a kind furniture from unwanted urban trees. Each...

Popular for its trails, beaches, fishing access, dog park and climbing boulder, the 16-acre Bozeman Pond Park sits in...

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

In the 1880s, the prospect of copper drew miners to what would eventually become the town of Anaconda in...

Waterloo Recreation Area in Michigan is a little-known treasure. About a one-hour drive from Ann Arbor, this 20,000-acre park is...

Make the steep 3.1 mike hike to the top of Spy Rock along the Appalachian Trail and you'll be...

At the Freshwater Institute, we are leaders in the development and design of aquaculture systems that make it possible...

The history of the United States hung in the balance on the first three days of July 1863, as...

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

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

Today, thousands of acres of privately owned forestland across Delaware are for sale, jeopardizing the state’s unique character and...