The Conservation Fund

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 in the Mississippi River Watershed is contributing to a hypoxic zone, or “dead 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...

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....

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...

Throughout the Southwest and Midwest, the lesser prairie-chicken’s population size and geographic range have dramatically diminished due to the...

The Altamaha River is Georgia’s largest free-flowing river, winding 137 miles from the center of the state all the...

Santee National Wildlife Refuge encompasses approximately 13,000 acres, including 39 miles of shoreline along the banks of Lake Marion,...

The town of Groton, Connecticut, has a long history dating to before its incorporation in 1705, and the 63-acre...

San Diego is known for its miles of coastline and beautiful beaches. But there is more to this coastal...

The mix of spongy peat land and spruce forest that make up the Sax-Zim Bog in northern Minnesota, just...

John Davidson is a senior research associate at the Conservation Fund’s Freshwater Institute. Since 1998, John has conducted research...