The Conservation Fund
Our Projects
Mesa Verde National Park
President Theodore Roosevelt established Mesa Verde National Park more than 100 years ago, protecting historic cliff dwellings and other...
Michaux State Forest
Pennsylvania’s Michaux State Forest covers more than 85,000 acres and is referred to as the state’s ”cradle of forestry.” We helped expand Michaux...
Michigan’s Farmland Legacy Program
Protecting farmland from development has been a priority in Michigan for a long time—over 20 years. Roughly 63 properties...
Middle Neches Forestland
In one of the largest, most complex forestland projects in Texas history, The Conservation Fund and Renewable Resources, LLC,...
Military Readiness Fund
The Challenge
Once remote U.S. military installations are facing rapid development from surrounding communities that constrains training operations and threatens...
Milwaukee River Watershed Conservation Partnership
As a major tributary to Lake Michigan – one of the main sources of drinking water in the Greater...
Minidoka National Historic Site
In February 1942, two months after the United States formally entered World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed...
Minnesota Chippewa Tribe – Bois Forte Band
In 2020, we acquired an expansive forest landscape known as the Minnesota Heritage Forest. Nearly 40% of those lands...
Minnesota Northwoods
Minnesota’s outdoor legacy is renowned. But across much of northern Minnesota, large swaths of industrial forestland—or those lands owned...
Minnesota’s Heritage Forest — Minnesota
At the beginning of the 21st Century, PotlatchDeltic Corporation, a timberland real estate investment trust, was one of the...
Minnesota’s Martin County Conservation Partnership
Tallgrass prairies are uniquely Midwestern. These grassy ecosystems are ideal for wildlife grazing and recreational activities like hunting and...
Mispillion Harbor
Does saving one mile make a difference? At Mispillion Harbor it does. Mispillion is a critical stopover for the...
Missouri River Restoration
Stretching more than 2,300 miles from Three Forks, Montana, to St. Louis, Missouri, where it joins the Mississippi River,...
Mitigating for Impacts on Federal Land
PPL Electric Utilities Corporation (PPL) and Public Service Electric and Gas Company (PSE&G) were the permit applicants constructing an...
MJ Ranch
The Conservation Fund led the effort, in collaboration with several public and private partners, to complete conservation easements in...
Monitoring Water Quality in the Great Valley Region
In 1986, the Freshwater Institute began monitoring nine natural springs—with an eye toward water quality and environmental health—spanning across...
Monmouth Battlefield State Park
On June 28, 1778, General George Washington’s Continental Army attacked the British just outside Monmouth Court House in New...
Mount Grace Land Conservation Trust
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the former mill town of Orange, Massachusetts is a “food desert”—a community...
Mount Hope Community Garden, San Diego, California
Established by Project New Village, the Mount Hope Community Garden provides a Southeastern San Diego neighborhood a greenspace to...
Moving to Mainstreet and Conserving Energy: The Custard Stand
Since first opening in 1991, The Custard Stand, owned by Dee and Angie Cowger, has opened locations across West...
Mt. Baldy, Los Angeles
If you’re in the Los Angeles area, look north to the San Gabriel Mountains and you’ll see Mt. Baldy,...
Namekagon Barrens
The Namekagon Barrens in northwest Wisconsin are actually anything but barren. The mix of brush, prairie and forest provide...
Natural Heritage Land Trust, Wisconsin
Giant teardrops. Whale profiles. Sculpted mounds. People get creative when describing drumlins: steep, narrow hills that clump in large...
Navajo River Watershed in Colorado
When our colleague Tom Macy first visited the Navajo River Watershed in southwest Colorado 30 years ago, it was...
Neches River
Often referred to as Texas’ last “wild” river, the Neches flows more than 415 miles through east Texas, primarily through the...
Nemadji River And Douglas County Forest
Back in 2010, the Fund worked with Douglas County to protect nearly 4,000 acres along the Nemadji River, safeguarding...
Neu's Point and Och's Point State Wildlife Management Areas
Between 1804 and 1806, explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark opened the American West on their historic quest to...
New Funding Leads To Large-Scale Conservation In West Virginia
In West Virginia, forests cover 78 percent of the state and account for $3 billion of its economy. Forests...
New River Initiative
The New River connects communities in 21 rural counties across three states (North Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia) in southern...
North Coast Forest Conservation Initiative
America’s favorite forests include the redwoods along California’s North Coast. The redwood region is known for its raw beauty...
