The Conservation Fund in the News

Tom Kuglin, Independent Record, 8 March 2016 – On the banks of Ten Mile Creek Tuesday, a collection of open land advocates along with military and county officials lauded what will be the Helena area’s newest recreation destinations. Prickly Pear Land Trust recently acquired two parcels totaling 556 acres near Fort Harrison with plans to develop trails and restore lands impacted from years of grazing. 

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Thomas Wheatley, Creative Loafing, 25 February 2016 – With the help of a grassroots group of residents fighting for preservation, the kindness of property owners, nonprofits such as the Conservation Fund and the PATH Foundation, and assistance from county leaders and Georgia's congressional delegation, Jordan and Kelley were able to protect land surrounding Arabia Mountain and start connecting the rich cultural resources surrounding the monadnock.

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Mike Koshmrl, Jackson Hole News & Guide, 19 February 2016 – Thousands of acres of pastureland and sagebrush steppes near the Hoback Rim southeast of Jackson have been signed into conservation easements and forever protected from development. Mark Elsbree, the Conservation Fund’s senior vice president, said the work of Luke Lynch, the Wyoming director for the fund who died on Mount Moran in May, led to easements on nearly 21 square miles of ranchland down the highway from Bondurant.e.

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Rosemary Parker, MLive, 10 February 2016 – Michigan Audubon's Bernard W. Baker Sanctuary here has recently qreceived an additional 80 acres of protected lands thanks to a $180,000 grant, a collaboration with The Conservation Fund and Ducks Unlimited. The new area will be closed to the public to protect the sensitive species that breed there.

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Gilette News Record, 10 February 2016 – Mule deer migrating in the Green River Basin this spring will have an easier path, thanks in part to research conducted at the University of Wyoming. UW researchers produced the “Red Desert to Hoback Mule Deer Migration Assessment,” which led to improved conservation of the longest-known movement of mule deer in the United States.

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Hannibal Courier-Post, 8 February 2016 –The team responsible for the Sodalis Nature Preserve earned an award at last week’s Missouri Department of Conservation conference. The G. Andy Runge Wildlife Award is presented by the Missouri Chapter of The Wildlife Society to an individual, group, or organization that has made an outstanding contribution to wildlife management or understanding in Missouri.

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Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle, 27 January 2016 – In a coup for conservation, a historic and ecologically significant 31-square-mile mosaic of East Texas upland and riverine forest, wetlands and grasslands hard against the Neches River in Houston and Trinity counties will forever remain an unbroken tract devoted to education, research and sustainable use of the area's rich natural heritage.

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T.A. Frank, Monday (Drucker Institute), January / February 2016 – Most days, forest manager Mike Schofield finds himself walking the woods of Maryland’s Delmarva Peninsula, trying to squeeze more money out of the pine trees that tower overhead.

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