The Conservation Fund in the News

Mark Wilson, Fast Company – An old pecan farm sat vacant and overgrown for years inside Atlanta’s city limits, right near the Lakewood-Browns Mill community, a food desert where a third of the population lives below the poverty line. Now, through the efforts of the city of Atlanta, The Conservation Fund, many local nonprofits, and volunteer labor, the property has been purchased and converted in the nation’s largest edible forest.

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Pittsfield, Maine (Newswire.com) – ​​​Kleinschmidt Associates, an engineering, regulatory and environmental consulting firm, is pleased to announce that they have entered into a strategic alliance with The Conservation Fund.

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Raisa Habersham, Atlanta Journal Constitution – Atlanta residents will have greater access to fresh food thanks to a public “food forest.” The green space will feature trees, shrubs and vines that produce fruit along with walking trails, a community garden and restored forest and stream-side areas by 2020.

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Pam Boyd, Vail Daily – Back in 2011, recreationists celebrated increased access to the upper basin of the Colorado River when Eagle County acquired the Two Bridges and State Bridge properties. Now they can celebrate long-term provisions to keep those properties open to the public under the ownership of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.

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Associated Press, Air Force Times – Cannon Air Force Base in New Mexico has partnered with The Conservation Fund for the protection of nearly 48 square miles of land adjacent to the Melrose Air Force Range. A conservation easement will limit development, encroachment and changes to the landscape that could negatively affect flight paths, training operations or habitat for the lesser prairie-chicken.

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Michael Wright, Bozeman Daily Chronicle – Montana officials have closed a land deal that will add about 160 acres to a wildlife management area north of Yellowstone that’s known for an abundance of elk habitat. Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks and The Conservation Fund announced that a deal had been finalized to transfer 160 acres of private land abutting the Dome Mountain Wildlife Management Area into state ownership.

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Staff Reporter, The Ellsworth American – Blue Hill Heritage Trust celebrated the purchase of another large block of forestland with its acquisition of Meadowbrook Forest. The purchase was part of the Maine Coastal Forest Partnership, a collaborative effort between The Conservation Fund, The Nature Conservancy, Maine Coast Heritage Trust, New England Forestry Foundation, Blue Hill Heritage Trust and Downeast Salmon Federation.

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John Sharp, AL.com – At the Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge, state officials and conservationists praised the work to extend – for the first time since the early 1990s – the permanently protected area along the Gulf of Mexico.

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