The Conservation Fund in the News

Shitiz Chaudhary, GreenBiz — While renewables and low carbon buildings and transport dominate, conservation organizations are also using second-party options, such as The Conservation Fund in its recent issuance focusing on land conservation and working forest protection.

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Megan Michelson, Outside Magazine – Check out Google Trekker from The Conservation Fund; staffers hiked through over a dozen protected destinations—like Lewis and Clark National Historical Park in Oregon and DuPont State Recreational Forest in North Carolina—and used Google Maps video technology to capture their wanderings. 

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NPT Staff, National Parks Traveler – A historic farm that borders Pea Ridge National Military Park in Arkansas has been obtained by conservation groups that hope to transfer it to the park once the National Park Service gains funding for the acquisition.

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Caitlin Tan, West Virginia Public Broadcasting – The West Virginia elk reintroduction program is four years in, and the project is not growing as fast as expected; however, there is a herd in the Southern Coalfields that is slowly getting bigger. The herd of about 80 elk live on the over 35,000-acre Tomblin and Laurel Lake Wildlife Management Area that is primarily reclaimed strip mines.

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Kristen Leigh Painter, Star Tribune – Aquaponics is heralded as a sustainable, local solution for a future where resources are under increased strain from a ballooning global population.

“There are very few places in the world where you can actually put salmon farms into the oceans, and those areas are kind of tapped out now,” said Christopher Good, director of research at the Conservation Fund’s Freshwater Institute. “But the demand keeps rising, so the solution has to be land-based and I think the major salmon companies are starting to realize that.”

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Catalina Jaramillo, WHYY – After 11 years, Pennsylvania completed the acquisition of over 1,700 acres of land for preservation in southern Chester County. The new public space is connected to other parks in Maryland and Delaware, creating one of the largest undeveloped open areas in the mid-Atlantic, with about 8,000 acres available for recreation.

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Larry Selzer, The New York Times: Letter to the Editor (third story) – "While a trillion new trees is a laudable goal, intact forests with mature trees are providing important carbon-absorbing qualities right now."

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WBIR Staff, NBC Knoxville – For almost 15 years, there was a gap in Tennessee's Cumberland Trail that forced hikers to walk for six miles on a paved road before reaching the trail's next portion. Now, the trail will be connected after several partner organizations added the Lone Star property to it.

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