The Conservation Fund

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

The Appalachian National Scenic Trail is an iconic national treasure. Completed in 1937, key sections along the trail are...

With the help of many dedicated residents, The Conservation Fund will acquire and preserve 202 acres of open space...

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

Alaska's first state park contains roughly 400,000 acres of pristine mountains, glaciers, forests and coastline. However, nestled in Halibut...

During a time when segregation was enforced by law, Elktonia, Sparrow’s and Carr’s beaches in Annapolis were Chesapeake Bay...

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...

This stunning 30,000-acre ranchland property—abundant with scenic river views, a resident elk herd, and unique geology and forests—is of national park quality. Throw in some world-class recreation and...

The “View That Named Richmond” along the James River from historic Libby Hill has faced threats of development for...

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...

Indiana bat and northern long-eared bat populations have seen dramatic declines throughout their ranges because of loss of habitat...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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 12,376-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...