The Conservation Fund

One of the few tortoises native to North America, the gopher tortoise is facing serious pressures from urban development...

In the spring, a large, relatively unknown poppy field shocked Southern California with a one-of-a-kind super bloom. Covering hillsides...

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

Established in 1996, the Rappahannock River Valley National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) is the newest of four refuges that make...

Jacks Valley Ranch is a little piece of Nevada history. Situated on the backside of Lake Tahoe in the...

The National Cold Water Marine Aquaculture Center (NCWMAC) is a new research facility established by USDA ARS to improve...

The Coharie River has long served as the lifeblood of the Coharie tribal community and its ancestors. The river...

With its roots high in the Texas Panhandle, two forks of the Red River confluence at the Texas-Oklahoma border...

Forests dominate Maine’s landscape, blanketing 90 percent of the state1 and weaving into every fabric of its identity. More than...

150 years ago, at dawn, in a dry creek bed in southeast Colorado, a troop of nearly 700 Colorado...

West Virginia’s native brook trout populations are struggling. A collaboration between the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources and...

When The Conservation Fund purchased the 24,000-acre Garcia River Forest in the heart of Northern California’s redwood country in...

Roger Outlaw, who is 64, has farmed all his life. Most recently though, his work in manufacturing meant he...

Runoff of nutrients from farmland and other sources in the Mississippi River Watershed is contributing to a hypoxic zone,...

Three Wisconsin rivers—the Milwaukee, Menomonee, and Kinnickinnic—join in bustling downtown Milwaukee before flowing into Lake Michigan. These rivers define the...

When Laila and Doug Mortimer retired to Robbinsville, North Carolina, they did not expect to be building treehouses.  But the...

The rapid transfer of large, industrial-size forests in Virginia and nationwide has increased the threats of fragmentation and conversion...

Celebrating Ecotourism and Regional Heritage Roanoke River Partners is a nonprofit dedicated to preserving and promoting the natural, cultural and...

In 2003, The Conservation Fund teamed up with the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources to protect nearly 9,000 acres...

Glen and Jo Ann Hawkins first opened their Rock Cave, West Virginia, convenience store and gasoline station in 1990....

Over the past two decades, The Conservation Fund’s Conservation Leadership Network (CLN) has developed national and regional programs to...

The nearly 10,000-acre Rocky Fork property was once the largest unprotected tract of land in the Southern Appalachians. Located...

Where Montana’s dramatic peaks give way to the Northern Great Plains, the Rocky Mountain Front forms a landscape unlike...

Located 75 miles east of Houston, the 12,356-acre Sabine Ranch is almost entirely within the boundary of the McFaddin...

In north Florida and across much of the southeast, vast working forests are being cleared and converted to more...

The largest watershed in Michigan, Saginaw Bay is located between the thumb and forefinger of Michigan’s “mitten” on the...

Our passion for conservation means we’re dedicated to saving land—no matter how complex the project. That’s why, over the...

Each year, the United States grants sanctuary to 50,000 refugees displaced by war or political crisis. Many of them...

Located in the waters between Vancouver Island to the west and Washington State to the east – and  just a short...

The Sand Creek Massacre is one of the most tragic events in America’s history, and marked a major turning...