The Conservation Fund
Our Projects
Lake Iliamna
Lake Iliamna is Alaska’s largest lake. The depths of its crystal clear waters produce the largest returns of Sockeye...
Lake Michigan Beach Clean Up Goes to the Dogs
The white-sand beaches and charming Lake Michigan communities in southwest Michigan known as Harbor Country are popular weekend getaway...
Lake Ophelia And Grand Cote National Wildlife Refuges
High above the Lake Ophelia and Grand Cote national wildlife refuges in central Louisiana, hundreds of thousands of birds...
Land-Based Closed-Containment Aquaculture with the Atlantic Salmon Federation
In 2011 two conservation organizations came to the same understanding, an idea formed probably while fishing where the best...
Lavender Helps a Family Farm Bloom
Norma DeCamp Burns wants to keep her North Carolina family farm from disappearing. In the Tar Heel state, that’s...
Leadership For Conservation And Community Economic Growth
Our Conservation Leadership Network (CLN) is a conservation incubator, a place where new ideas are born. Started in 1998,...
Leech Lake Watershed Foundation, Minnesota
Just a few hours north of the Twin Cities, the pristine forests and clean waters that empty into Minnesota’s...
Leelanau State Park
If you envision Michigan as the palm of your hand, some of the state’s most important conservation lands can...
Lesser Prairie-Chicken Habitat
The lesser prairie-chicken is commonly recognized for its feathered feet, stout build and mating behavior. Males perform a sequence...
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...
Liberty Hill
Thirty miles northeast of Columbia, SC, is Lake Wateree, a 13,000-acre lake created in 1920 with the construction of...
Lindsay Street Park
The English Avenue and Vine City neighborhoods lie in the shadow of downtown Atlanta, less than a mile from...
Lithonia
Nominated for a listing on the National Register of Historic Places, the city of Lithonia, just outside Atlanta, includes...
Little River Canyon
Clean and wild, the Little River in northeast Alabama is America’s longest mountaintop river, cutting through the deepest canyon...
Live Oak Farm
Rice is a staple of any Cajun kitchen, and it’s just as important to Louisiana’s economy as well. As...
Luke Lynch Wildlife Habitat Management Area
Imagine 4,000 – 5,000 mule deer traversing the same 150 mile corridor twice each year during their spring and...
Machias Lakes
We partnered with the Maine Department of Conservation on the acquisition of nearly 8,000 acres surrounding the Machias Lakes of eastern...
Making Nature More Accessible at the Pismo Preserve
The Pismo Preserve is a picturesque stretch of land that sits just above California’s Pismo Beach, a few short...
Managing Mitigation Funds to Conserve Bird Habitat
As America’s demand for energy grows, providers are making major new investments in infrastructure. The emerging Rockies Express Pipeline...
Mapping the Future of Longleaf Pine
Two hundred years ago, the “piney woods” of folk songs were a vast forest sweeping across 90 million acres...
Mark Twain National Forest, Missouri
Located in southern and central Missouri, the sizable Mark Twain National Forest stretches across 29 counties and encompasses 1.5...
Matsuda Farm on Vashon Island, Washington
The Matsuda property was the last remaining farm on Vashon Island owned by a Japanese-American family. The farm grew...
Mattie Freeland Park
Parks are important places. The story of Mattie Freeland Park is unique, inspiring, and all about community. Mattie Freeland...
Maurepas Swamp Wildlife Management Area
Louisiana’s coastal wetlands are an amazing resource. They provide a buffer from devastating coastal storms, absorbing heavy rains that...
May Ranch
Ranching is a way of life for many families in Colorado. For the May family, their 16,000-acre ranch near...
McElroy Ranch
Colorado boasts a strong legacy of family ranching, still evident today along the Colorado River corridor, from Granby to...
McIntosh SEED Community Forest
In the coastal flatwoods of Georgia, a project that demonstrates our focus on community and the environment is unfolding....
Meeteetse Spires in the Beartooth Mountains
In early 2010 we completed the second and final phase of a land conservation project that adds 560 acres...
Melrose Air Force Range
The flat, open expanse of grassland prairie in the plains region of eastern New Mexico makes an ideal location...
Mesa Verde National Park
President Theodore Roosevelt established Mesa Verde National Park more than 100 years ago, protecting historic cliff dwellings and other...
