The Conservation Fund
Our Projects
Creamer’s Field: How an Alaskan Dairy Farm Became a Wildlife Sanctuary
In the heart of Fairbanks, Alaska lies Creamer’s Field Migratory Waterfowl Refuge. This state refuge provides wetland habitat for...
Creating a Catch for Maryland Anglers
Every year thousands of anglers cast a line into Maryland’s waters in hope of catching a variety of sport...
CSX: West Virginia
Healthy Food Distribution Initiative
In West Virginia, one in five children has limited or no access to fresh fruits, vegetables,...
CtrlAQUA Research Center and The Freshwater Institute
The Conservation Fund’s Freshwater Institute, a recognized expert in the technology and design of aquaculture systems, is participating in...
Demolishing a Deadbeat Dam in Alaska
The Dena’ina people of Eklutna have given much to the growth of Anchorage and Southcentral Alaska. Most of Anchorage...
Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center
Successful conservation often takes a village, literally. In the small village of Mystic, Connecticut, Maggie Jones and her staff...
Denny Cove, Tennessee
Located just 30 minutes northwest of Chattanooga, Tennessee, Denny Cove is a recreational landmark that is part of the...
Diversity Nurtures Achievements Community Youth Center
Located in Duplin County, an economically- and environmentally-distressed rural area, Diversity Nurtures Achievements Community Youth Center (DNA) provides year-round,...
Downeast And Eastern Maine
Eastern Maine and its famed coastal area known as Downeast Maine has a one-of-a-kind beauty, with pristine forests, clean...
DuPont State Recreational Forest
Nestled between the cities of Hendersonville and Brevard, the horseshoe-shaped DuPont State Forest covers 10,400 acres within the Blue Ridge Mountains....
Durham Turns a Railway into a Greenway
Built in the 1890s as a rail spur to downtown tobacco facilities, the Durham Belt Line extends along the...
Eastern Massasauga Rattlesnake Pooled Fund for Infrastructure Mitigation
The eastern massasauga rattlesnake (EMR) exists in the midwestern states and is listed as threatened under the Endangered Species...
Economic Analysis for Big Bend Region of Florida
In Spring 2015, The Conservation Fund compiled a comprehensive analysis of the economy of the Big Bend region of...
Ecosystem Services for Houston-Galveston
Greater Houston is America’s sixth-largest metroplex—and growing. By 2040, the Houston-Galveston area is expected to gain 3.5 million people,...
Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge
The Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge protects more than 47,000 acres of southern New Jersey coastal salt-marsh and...
Elkhorn Mountains
The Elkhorn Mountains stretch across 300,000 acres, stand 9,000-feet tall and contain some of the most important and vulnerable...
Expanding Green Space and Improving Social Resilience in South Cook County, IL.
The Southeast Cook County Land Acquisition Plan is a data-driven plan to dramatically expand permanently protected land holdings and...
Faith and Food
In partnership with The Duke Endowment, Resourceful Communities provides rural churches with training to strengthen skills, small grants to...
Farm and Wilderness Camp, Vermont
The Fund helped protect more than 440 acres of private forests, ridgeline and vista near the village of Plymouth,...
Farm Creek Preserve, Norwalk Land Trust
The mud flats and salt marshes of Long Island Sound’s tidal estuaries are havens for oysters, osprey, herons, egrets...
Fiery Gizzard Trail
Fiery Gizzard is a place many Tennesseans hold dear. It is the heart of the South Cumberland Plateau and...
Finding the Flint River
Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport is best known for a few things:
It’s the world’s busiest airport, seeing over 100,000,000 passengers every year.
It’s massive and employs...
Firefly Farms Creamery & Market
It all started with a neighbor’s goats and the question: “Can we milk ‘em to make cheese?” With that,...
First State National Historical Park
Delaware’s Brandywine Valley represents the very start of America—a place where General Washington fought for independence, Benjamin Franklin printed...
Fish Creek Flying W Ranches
The Fund worked with the Wyoming Game and Fish Department on a land conservation agreement that secures key wildlife...
Fish Creek Open Space Area, City of Maplewood
Keeping with the Fund’s goal to save favorite outdoor places, we helped the City of Maplewood acquire 70 acres...
Florida Keys: Key Tree-Cactus Preserve
Manatee. Florida Panther. Two well-known endangered species. We’ve helped with conservation efforts to save habitat for both these animals;...
Food and Farm Initiative
Though the region is surrounded by large agricultural lands, half of North Carolina’s “food deserts” are located in the...
Forestland Around Fort Stewart in Georgia
At more than 279,000 acres, Fort Stewart is the largest Army installation east of the Mississippi River. The Army Compatible Use...
Fort Blakeley in Alabama
These peaceful, pine-covered bluffs overlooking the Mobile-Tensaw Delta in southern Alabama once witnessed one of the last battles of...
