The Conservation Fund in the News

Bailey Schulz, USA TODAY — The 1965 civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery was a watershed moment in the fight for Black Americans’ voting rights, but wouldn’t have been possible without a few helping hands along the way. Three African American farm owners along the 54-mile route offered their properties as campsites for the marchers on the four-day trek, housing iconic civil rights activists including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Coretta Scott King and John Lewis. Fifty-six years later, those campsites are at risk of destruction or irreparable damage.

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Staff Reporter, The Associated Press — Nonprofit group, The Conservation Fund, says it has bought more than 6,150 acres of forest to be kept in conservation in southeast Georgia.

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Brian Vinci, IntraFish — The promise of RAS has always been the same: year-round, local production of consistent, high quality seafood that minimized environmental impact. The fact that some NGOs found solutions in land-based RAS to challenges they were addressing does not mean they magically put it on a fast-track to adoption.

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Jon Hurdle, Delaware Public Media — A public-private partnership to help ensure migrating shorebirds have a permanently protected place to rest and feed along the First State coast is nearing the finish line. A recently completed transfer of land at Mispillion Harbor is the final major piece of the process.

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Frank Kummer, The Philadelphia Inquirer — The Conservation Fund announced Thursday that it has donated 254 acres near Brandywine Creek in Delaware County to First State National Historical Park on the Delaware-Pennsylvania border in a landscape of rolling hills, meadows, and wetlands captured and made famous in paintings by Andrew Wyeth.

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Ellis Juhlin, Utah Public Radio — When Camp Williams was built, it was bordered by open land. Today it is located near some of Utah’s fastest growing communities, and much of the open land around it is being developed. The Conservation Fund is a group working with Camp Williams and other organizations in the state to address this encroachment, mainly through the purchasing of conservation easements.

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Cecilia Wood, Bama Buzz — Since 1985, The Conservation Fund has saved 25,289 acres of land in Alabama. The Fund is responsible for preserving trails, forests, monuments and rivers, all with the goal of providing more access to nature and strengthening local economies. Check out 7 of The Fund’s most important projects in Alabama that have had a major impact on the state.

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Mike Koshmrl, Jackson Hole News & Guide — Matt Kauffman was at a conference talking over coffee with fellow ecologists when he got to thinking that the challenges facing Wyoming’s migratory deer, elk and pronghorn are shared by wildlife around the world.

“We realized that a lot of the same things we were trying to address by mapping migrations in Wyoming were applicable globally.” - Matt Kauffman

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