The Conservation Fund in the News

Wesley Young, Winston Salem Journal – North Carolina's Piedmont Land Conservancy will soon plan its next steps in protecting farmland for the Crossnore School & Children’s Home, thanks for a bridge loan to finalize the deal from The Conservation Fund.

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Terry Dickson, The Brunswick News – Last year, The Conservation Fund and Open Space Institute bought the largest unprotected and undeveloped piece of coastal salt marsh, maritime forest and longleaf pine uplands on the Georgia coast with the intent of selling it to the state for permanent protection.

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Erik J. Meyers, American Infrastructure – "With more than 80 percent of the U.S. population living in urban areas, greenspace—even as modest as a neighborhood park, community garden or street-side rain garden—is welcomed for its enhancement of the quality of city life. Beyond looking good, these green features are working all the time."

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Larry Selzer, New York Daily News – "As we envision the new trees that may populate our earth in the future, we should not lose sight of an eminently achievable and immediate challenge: preventing the ongoing destruction of our working forests."

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Mike Koshmrl, Jackson Hole News & Guide – Grand Teton National Park gained a 35-acre inholding just north of Teton Village, Wyoming. The addition came courtesy of The Conservation Fund, which used more than $5.4 million in federal Land and Water Conservation Fund money to add this land to the national park.

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Katie Pyzyk, Medium – The Food Forest at Browns Mill was a working farm for decades but sold for redevelopment in 2006; the development plan was abandoned when the recession hit, and the land sat vacant until The Conservation Fund purchased it in 2016. The park will serve as a community green space complete with trails and a large-scale edible garden.

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Donald Lambert, The Northern Virginia Daily – The conservation community is celebrating a major win for a local landmark. The Conservation Fund announced Wednesday that 91 acres in the Shenandoah Valley, known as the Knob, had been secured under permanent federal protection.

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Amy Nordstrom, IEEE Spectrum, January 5, 2020–Inside a row of nondescript buildings in the small town of Albany, in northeast Indiana—approximately 1,000 kilometers from the nearest coast—Atlantic salmon are sloshing around in fiberglass tanks.

Only in the past five years has it become possible to raise thousands of healthy fish so far from the shoreline without contaminating millions of gallons of fresh water. A technology called recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS) now allows indoor aquaculture farms to recycle up to 99 percent of the water they use. And the newest generation of these systems will help one biotech company bring its unusual fish to U.S. customers for the first time this year.

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