The Conservation Fund in the News

Tina Alvey, Beckley Register-Herald, 10 April 2016 –Operating in the fine American tradition of a neighborhood grocery store, the Alderson Green Grocer offers the added fillip of being part of a nonprofit organization that plows proceeds back into the community.

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Stonington-Mystic Patch, 7 April 2016 – The Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center will officially open the John E. Avery House & Welcome Center and the Jules X. Schneider Nature & Arts Barn at its Coogan Farm property, 162 Greenmanville Ave., Mystic, at 1 p.m., Monday, April 25. 

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Paige Jones, The Frederick News-Post, 5 April 2016 – Frederick consumers searching for locally-grown, sustainable salmon no longer have to scour grocery stores or farmers’ markets. For the next few weeks, this salmon will be sold at nearby Wegmans stores. The Freshwater Institute, which is dedicated to sustainable water use and aquaculture through science and technology under the national nonprofit The Conservation Fund, partnered with Wegmans Food Markets this year to make the salmon it grew locally and sustainably available to consumers in the area.

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The Star Democrat, 2 April 2016 – Nature lovers from across the Delmarva Region will join Pickering Creek Audubon Center, National Audubon Society and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service staff for an “All Audubon Day in the Marsh” in Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Saturday, April 16. Volunteers will participate in a restoration planting, hear from conservation experts and tour a rarely-seen expanse of salt marshes in southern Dorchester County.

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Tim Troll, Bristol Bay Times, 1 April 2016 – After years of waiting to see whether Congress would pass a new conservation tax incentive for Alaska Native corporations, Congress finally passed the incentive last December and Koliganek Natives LTD and the Bristol Bay Heritage Land Trust closed an historic deal in February that will put the incentive to use.

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Larry Nagengast, Delaware Today, 22 March 2016 – It’s not something we think about every day, but “if you’re driving through the state of Delaware, you’re going to pass something that the Mt. Cuba Center has helped protect.” Those are the words of one of Delaware’s leading conservationists, Blaine Phillips, senior vice president and Mid-Atlantic regional director of The Conservation Fund, saluting the efforts of one of its newer partners in acquiring open space and protecting it from future development.

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Jack Horan, The Charlotte Observer, 21 March 2016 – Mount Mitchell State Park celebrates its 100th anniversary this month, with a land expansion underway that stands to more than double the size of the park. The oldest of 41 parks operated by the N.C. Division of Parks and Recreation, Mount Mitchell was the first park established in the Southeast by either state or federal government.

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Kyle Spurr, The Daily Astorian, 9 March 2016 – Anyone in the world with access to the Internet can experience the Fort to Sea Trail. Google Maps, along with the non-profit Conservation Fund, partnered to create a virtual tour of the 6.5-mile trail that extends from Fort Clatsop to Sunset Beach.

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