The Conservation Fund

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...

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

Drive along Interstate 25 from Denver to Colorado Springs, and you’ll see some of the West’s most colorful scenery...

Glaciers may not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think of Wisconsin, but consider this:...

There are many moving pieces when it comes to mapping out opportunities for economic development to enhance outdoor recreation...

Research at The Freshwater Institute focuses on developing and improving technologies to enhance the sustainability of the modern fish...

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

For 30 years, The Conservation Fund’s Freshwater Institute has led the way in the development of land-based recirculating aquaculture...

Adam and Dru Montri started Ten Hens Farm in 2008 with little more than a quarter acre of land....

Florida’s picturesque Indian River Lagoon attracts a third of Florida’s endangered manatees, 350 species of birds, thousands of animal and...

Rogue Resources is a 19-year old enterprise based in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, that has primarily operated in three lines...

Internationally recognized for the importance of its wetlands, Izembek National Wildlife Refuge, at the tip of the Alaskan peninsula,...

Wyoming’s Teton County is an outdoor paradise in the heart of the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem. It’s here, in the Snake River...

In the northwestern-most corner of South Carolina, crystal-clear rivers and streams surge through the high Blue Ridge Escarpment and...

Located on the shores of Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island, the John H. Chafee National Wildlife Refuge was established...

For more than two decades, the Fund has been working to protect and restore Louisiana’s coastal wetland and associated upland habitats, like...

Kanapaha Prairie, near Gainesville in Alachua County, is part of north-central Florida’s vast system of wet prairies. As a...

Kathryn Johnston Memorial Park will be The Conservation Fund’s third Park With Purpose built in Atlanta in partnership with...

Upstate New York’s Tug Hill region, also known as Tug Hill Plateau, is known for its timber industry, snowfall...

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

At the Fund, we believe kids have the right to a healthy childhood and that a healthy childhood includes...

Every year, Alaska’s Western Arctic caribou herd migrates across a third of the state, including Kobuk Valley National Park. This remarkable herd,...

The Lackawanna Highlands project in northeastern Pennsylvania follows a trend across the country of vast privately-owned working forests in...

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

Located deep in the Rio Grande Valley at the southeastern tip of Texas along the Rio Grande River and...

About halfway between Chicago and Milwaukee, on the shores of Lake Michigan, lies Lake County. Rich with prairies, wetlands,...

Lake Iliamna is Alaska’s largest lake. The depths of its crystal clear waters produce the largest returns of Sockeye...

The white-sand beaches and charming Lake Michigan communities in southwest Michigan known as Harbor Country are popular weekend getaway...

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