Press Releases
National Park Service leaders along with representatives from the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, numerous statewide and regional partners in land conservation, and other local leaders marked National Public Lands Day by celebrating ongoing conservation efforts protecting the Blue Ridge Parkway at and around Waterrock Knob.
The new state forest will increase recreational access, water quality protections and wildlife habitat in northwestern North Carolina.
The Conservation Fund, a leading land conservation organization in the U.S., is honored to receive the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s National Land Protection Award.
The Appalachian Mountain Club purchased the nearly 27,000-acre Pleasant River Headwaters Forest in Piscataquis County, Maine from The Conservation Fund. The purchase is part of the Maine Woods Initiative, the most important multi-use recreation and land conservation project in the United States today.
The Conservation Fund is pleased to announce the hiring of Matt Purdy as Director of Forest Investments. In this new role Matt will lead the marketing and development of co-investment opportunities for mission-aligned partners to work with The Conservation Fund’s Working Forest Fund.
The Conservation Fund and the Squam Lakes Conservation Society (SLCS) today joined together with local, state and federal officials to celebrate completion of a multi-year effort to protect 6,395 acres of forestland and aquatic resources within the Beebe River watershed in central New Hampshire.
The unique moment is centered upon unprecedented partnership between historic Alabama Black Belt communities and private sector preservation leaders.
The ceremony completes the land acquisition of a 5.17-acre waterfront parcel important to Black history, culture, and heritage in Annapolis. The property was part of a larger beach-front enterprise owned and operated by the Carr Family from 1926 to the late 1960s.
