The Conservation Fund in the News

Midland Daily News, 13 May 2016 – Eight organizations will share nearly $8,000 that has been awarded by the Saginaw Bay Watershed Initiative Network (WIN) for projects that incorporate environmental and community goals.

WIN awards Action Grants that are a maximum of $1,000 twice each year, in addition to its larger grant programs. The Action Grants require a 1:1 match.

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Morgan Simmons, Knoxville News Sentinel, 6 May 2016 – The entrance to Rocky Fork State Park is marked by a plain metal gate that only hints at the remarkable discoveries waiting on the other side. Located 30 miles from Johnson City in northeastern Tennessee, Rocky Fork State Park is a park in progress

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Aislinn Sarnacki, Bangor Daily News, 5 May 2016 – Nearly 7,500 acres has recently been conserved in the town of Orient, located in southern Aroostook, The Conservation Fund announced this week. Managed as a working forest for more than a century, this newly conserved land includes one of the largest white-tailed deer wintering areas in the region, as well as key waterfowl habitat and miles of undeveloped shoreline on scenic lakes and brooks.

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David Boraks, WFAE Charlotte's NPR News Source, 27 April 2016 – A Hairy Woodpecker tap-tap-taps on a pine tree just below the summit of Mount Mitchell. It’s a sunny spring day. It’s 46 degrees - about 10 degrees cooler than nearby Burnsville. With the park now open after winter, superintendent Bryan Wilder says visitors are flocking here.  

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Steven Labadie, Outdoor Journal Radio, 6 May 2016 – Steve Summerfelt, the Freshwater Institute's director of Aquaculture Systems Research talks with Host Angelo Viola about the future of sustainable aquaculture and the Institute's partnership with Wegmans to provide locally-raised Atlantic salmon to the D.C. metro area. 

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Tom Johnson, NJ Spotlight, 21 April 2016 – The Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area is a resource enjoyed by millions annually for its spectacular vistas of steep cliffs, deep gorges, and rushing river. Now, a new analysis of the 70,000-acre park has concluded much of it can serve as a first-line defense against the expected loss of biodiversity from climate change.

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Edward Husar, Quincy Herald-Whig, 14 April 2016 – America's Hometown is getting ready to celebrate its new association with bats. The Hannibal Parks and Recreation Department on Sunday will host Hannibal Bat Festival. The event will include a series of talks from 3 to 6 p.m. at the Admiral Coontz Recreation Center followed by a group hike to the new Sodalis Nature Preserve for a bat emergence viewing at sunset.

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David Pendered, Saporta Report, 11 April 2016 – “It is my goal for Atlanta to become one of the top tier sustainable cities in the nation,” Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed says on the opening page of the city’s new green infrastructure plan. The GI plan has the potential to remake the way the city handles stormwater and put Atlanta at the forefront of water sustainability. It envisions viewing stormwater runoff as a resource rather than as waste.

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