The Conservation Fund in the News

Kara Holsopple, The Allegheny Front, 15 January 2016 – Appalachia has a lot of abandoned mine lands. And figuring out what to do with that land, which is often burdened with a legacy of pollution, is complicated. But in West Virginia, the Conservation Fund—a nationwide conservation group—has a plan to use some of those lands to bring wild elk back to the region.

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Don Behm, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 January 2016 – Water draining out of the Cedarburg Bog State Natural Area flows slowly south through a lowland forest of silver maple, ash and American elm on its way to Cedar Creek. The hardwood swamp south of Cedar Sauk Road in the Town of Cedarburg soaks up much of the water; its dense canopy part of a broad corridor enabling wildlife to move freely between the bog and creek.

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John McCoy, Charleston Gazette-Mail, 5 January 2016 – The deal is done. West Virginia officially has a place for its elk to roam. Officials from The Conservation Fund and the state Division of Natural Resources today announced a deal that will secure 32,396 acres of forestland for permanent public use, primarily for elk hunting and elk watching.

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Guy Covner, The Press Democrat, 3 January 2016 – They say money doesn’t grow on trees, but a nearly 75,000-acre swath of redwood and fir forests blanketing the wildlands of Sonoma and Mendocino counties is generating millions of dollars as it contributes to California’s ambitious campaign to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

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Craig Jarvis, The Charlotte Observer, 2 January 2016 – Environmentalists have complained about a steady erosion of funding for long-established protections in recent years, first due to a sour economy and then because of an anti-regulatory climate in the legislature. But one major source of conservation funding continues to protect streams, greenways and other projects across the state – from elk habitat in the mountains to a historic battlefield in the Triangle – although with far less money than it had a few years ago.

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Pam LeBlanc, Austin American Statesman, 1 January 2016 – A sprawling old oak arches its back against the wind, bending its lanky arms all the way to the ground. Those protective branches make the perfect backdrop for a campground, and one day Texans will pitch tents here at Powderhorn Ranch, near Matagorda Bay along the Gulf Coast.

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Justin Heinze, West Chester Patch, 21 December 2015 – The historic 553-acre Warwick Furnace Farm along the South Branch of French Creek in Warwick and East Nantmeal townships in Chester County will be preserved forever, the French & Pickering Creeks Conservation Trust announced in a press release Monday.

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Peter Fimrite, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 December 2015 – A government-run power company in Norway has agreed to buy carbon credits from the owners of a Northern California forest, a clear signal that the eyes of the world are on California’s pioneering cap-and-trade program after last week’s landmark global climate treaty in Paris.

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