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168,090 acres of land and water saved
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Projects
Atlanta’s Former Chattahoochee Brick Company Site
The historic Chattahoochee Brick site was designated one of the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation’s Top 10 ‘Places in...
Suwannee River Headwaters Forest – Georgia
One of the largest remaining free-flowing rivers in the Southeast, the Suwannee River originates in the Okefenokee National Wildlife...
Taking Action for America’s Local Food
The average age of a farmer in the United States is 60 years-old, and the small farms they own...
Stateline Forest – Georgia and Alabama
This working forest of 10,369 acres in Haralson and Polk counties, Georgia, and in Cleburne County, Alabama, is a...
Protecting the Gopher Tortoise along Georgia’s Coastline
One of the few tortoises native to North America, the gopher tortoise is facing serious pressures from urban development...
Beards Creek Forest — Georgia
Nicknamed Georgia’s “Little Amazon,” the winding 137-mile Altamaha River is a treasured waterway. Largely undammed and free flowing, the...
Sansavilla Wildlife Management Area
The Altamaha River is Georgia’s largest free-flowing river, winding 137 miles from the center of the state all the...
Parks with Purpose in Atlanta
We are creating safe places to play, job training and easy access to greenspace in Atlanta’s historically underserved communities.
Atlanta BeltLine
It’s the most comprehensive development effort ever undertaken in the City of Atlanta – transforming 22 miles of an...
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...
Protecting One of Atlanta’s Largest Mature Forests
Atlanta’s newest city park will preserve the ecologically and culturally significant 216-acre oak-hickory forest known locally as the Lake...
Southeast Coast Saltwater Paddling Trail
Paddlers have a great new website for navigating the Southeast Coast Saltwater Paddling Trail (SECT). This extensive trail allows for...
Silver Lake Wildlife Management Area
The nearly 8,400-acre Silver Lake Wildlife Management Area sits in the southwest corner of Georgia, near Bainbridge. The Fund...
Oconee National Forest
Did you know that forestry is the largest manufacturing sector in Georgia? Forests are a critical part of the state’s...
Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge
In the southeastern corner of Georgia, along the Florida border, lies one of the largest and most primitive swamps...
Atlanta Green Space Assessment
In 2005, the City of Atlanta was losing 500 acres of open space each week to development. Historically, the...
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...
Parks with Purpose in Baltimore
Revitalizing a century’s old park to realize triple bottom-line community benefits of a healthy environment, economy and society.
Lindsay Street Park
The English Avenue and Vine City neighborhoods lie in the shadow of downtown Atlanta, less than a mile from...
Kathryn Johnston Memorial Park
Kathryn Johnston Memorial Park will be The Conservation Fund’s third Park With Purpose built in Atlanta in partnership with...
Parks with Purpose in Raleigh
Since 1985, The Conservation Fund has worked to protect and restore vital natural resources across all 50 states. Nationwide...
McIntosh SEED Community Forest
In the coastal flatwoods of Georgia, a project that demonstrates our focus on community and the environment is unfolding....
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...
Connecting Pinhoti And Appalachian Trails
When the Appalachian Trail was mapped in the 1920s, the plan set out by Benton Mackaye called for a...
Civil War Battlefield Conservation: Georgia
Rocky Face Ridge is the site of the start of the Union Army’s Atlanta Campaign. U.S. Major General Sherman,...
Arabia Mountain National Heritage Area
Located in DeKalb, Henry and Rockdale Counties, just 20 minutes from downtown Atlanta, Arabia Mountain National Heritage Area is widely...