The Conservation Fund

Arizona’s Petrified Forest is famous for its expansive vistas—stark moon-like landscapes and the colorful eroding badlands of the Painted...

In northeast Pennsylvania, Pinchot State Forest  is a beautiful natural area that shelters wildlife and offers outdoor enthusiasts a colorful...

Rushing waterfalls and melodious birdcalls lift the deep quiet of Pisgah National Forest in the Appalachian Mountains. In 2009, we...

The nearly 27,000 acre Pleasant River Headwaters Forest is one of the last remaining large, unprotected forest blocks in...

Freshwater Institute staff assisted with the “Watershed Education Initiative,” an environmental education program offered by the Potomac Valley Audubon...

Approximately 94% of land in Texas is privately owned. With the state’s population continuing to grow, there’s a critical...

The Battle of Fort Blakeley—which many have called the “last stand of the Confederate States of America”—ranks among the...

The Ann Arbor Greenbelt is an innovative long-term land preservation program to curb the negative effects of development and...

Protecting valuable habitat that surrounds our military installations is vital to both our national security and the species that...

Spanning more than 1.1 million acres in northeastern Minnesota, the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness is an ecological treasure...

Over 90 acres of the Crossnore School & Children’s Home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina was beautiful, urban farmland. Not...

As one of Montana’s fastest growing cities, Helena is facing rapid development. Consequently, conservationists and community advocates are coming...

In 2008, with hopes of building healthy, self-sustaining communities, Adrienne Lee and Ken Lamson started New Beat Farm. Lots...

Atlanta’s newest city park will preserve the ecologically and culturally significant 216-acre oak-hickory forest known locally as the Lake...

A stunning and ecologically important southern Texas landscape—providing habitat for some of the rarest species in the state—was slated...

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...

Challenge Forestry and agriculture are critical industries across the South and Georgia is no exception. Together, they contribute nearly $112...

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,...