The Conservation Fund

With hundreds of pristine rivers, lakes and streams, the Southwest Alaska region abounds with natural resources, diverse habitats, world-class...

Nonprofit organizations and foundations turn to The Conservation Fund to identify protection opportunities for an array of open spaces...

The Stacy family traces its Ohio agricultural roots back to 1899, when Albert and Lina Frost Stacy purchased 24...

September 11, 2001 is one of the most tragic days in our nation’s history. Nearly 3,000 people died as...

This working forest of 10,369 acres in Haralson and Polk counties, Georgia, and in Cleburne County, Alabama, is a...

Stehekin is a small, remote settlement within the 62,000-acre Lake Chelan National Recreation Area.  Permanent residents number less than 100, but...

When we helped complete Nashville’s first Open Space Plan in 2011, we identified the scenic and historic 600-acre Stones River...

The Kona, Hawaii, Community Development Plan provides a strategic framework for guiding future land development and conservation decisions in...

For decades, Florida has been experiencing tremendous growth. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Florida is likely to surpass...

In Nevada, where the federal government owns more than 86 percent of the land, conservation needs to be strategic....

The vast tidal marshes of the Chesapeake Bay region are an ecological treasure. Nowhere in the Bay are these...

NiSource Inc. (NiSource), a Fortune 500 natural gas transmission and storage company, operates a 15,500 linear mile network of...

Tucked among the rolling hills and waterfalls of Pisgah National Forest, Dupont State Forest, and many other recreational destinations,...

Nature-based tourism is an important economic base in many communities, especially in rural places like Michigan’s famed Upper Peninsula...

At the Freshwater Institute, we know that the future of sustainable seafood lies in developing innovative approaches that value...

A collaboration between the Maryland Department of Natural Resources and The Conservation Fund’s Freshwater Institute seeks to increase the...

Icelandic seafood producer Matorka has been growing Arctic char since 2010. As the company aspired to expand to grow...

Chatham University set out to develop their Eden Hall Campus with a goal in mind: create the country’s first...

For three decades, The Freshwater Institute has conducted research to develop and improve technologies that make fish cultivation a...

The Freshwater Institute recently completed a research project in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Northern Aquaculture Demonstration...

The greater sage grouse requires wide open spaces for its survival. In recent years, the sage grouse’s habitat has...

The Freshwater Institute has received funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service for a five-year plan...

Sustainable Solutions, LLC is a natural resource management company located in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, that uses an ecosystems services...

Thanks to the generous support of the Pisces Foundation, we are pioneering a new approach to how two growing...

Approximately 50 miles west of Jacksonville lies a vast wilderness known as Osceola National Forest. Part of a great...

Swift Level Farm, a 152-acre historic landmark located in West Virginia’s Greenbrier Valley, has been in Jennifer “Tootie” Jones’...

What are you having for dinner? Imagine trying to answer that question if you couldn’t get to a grocery...

The average age of a farmer in the United States is 60 years-old, and the small farms they own...

Delaware Bay, its shores made up mostly of marshland, is home to countless species of seabirds and fish, as...

The Teton River is a key watershed within the Greater Yellowstone area. As the last major free-flowing river in...