By the Numbers:

25,289 acres of land and water saved
  • Over 3,515 acres have been preserved in partnership with the Forest Service.
  • 2,495 acres have been protected through the Conservation Loans program.

Projects

Preserving African American History at Fort Blakeley, Alabama

Preserving African American History at Fort Blakeley, Alabama

The Battle of Fort Blakeley—which many have called the “last stand of the Confederate States of America”—ranks among the...
Gulf Coast Oil Spill Restoration Funding Supports Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge

Gulf Coast Oil Spill Restoration Funding Supports Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge

Preserving and restoring the Gulf Coast’s vulnerable ecosystem has been a top priority for us in Alabama and nearby...
Weeks Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve

Weeks Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve

Located about 40 miles south of Mobile, Alabama, Weeks Bay NERR encompasses more than 6,500 acres—of which nearly 5,000...
Little River Canyon

Little River Canyon

Clean and wild, the Little River in northeast Alabama is America’s longest mountaintop river, cutting through the deepest canyon...
Mapping the Future of Longleaf Pine

Mapping the Future of Longleaf Pine

Two hundred years ago, the “piney woods” of folk songs were a vast forest sweeping across 90 million acres...
Connecting Pinhoti And Appalachian Trails

Connecting Pinhoti And Appalachian Trails

When the Appalachian Trail was mapped in the 1920s, the plan set out by Benton Mackaye called for a...
A Comeback for the South

A Comeback for the South's Longleaf Pine in Alabama and Florida

Longleaf pine forests once covered as much as 90 million acres from Virginia to Texas. Today, this habitat has...
Civil War Battlefield Conservation: Alabama

Civil War Battlefield Conservation: Alabama

Day’s Gap Battlefield, site of a critical Civil War battle in Morgan and Cullman counties, Alabama, remains much as...
Gulf Coast Conservation Vision Plan

Gulf Coast Conservation Vision Plan

The Gulf of Mexico, with its five bordering states—Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas—is a place of rich human...