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Ohio

Since 1985, the Fund and its partners have protected nearly 100,000 acres in Ohio, including sensitive wildlife habitat on Lake Erie’s North Bass Island and popular recreation lands near Cleveland.

Ale's Run State Wildlife Management Area, OH

Working with B&N Coal, the Ohio Department of Natural Resource's Division of Wildlife and the Wild Turkey Federation, the Fund purchased 2,905 acres of rolling hardwood forest and meadows here.  Read more>

Great Lakes Revolving Loan Fund

A generous lead grant from the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation has enabled the Fund and its partners to protect nearly 20,000 acres, valued at nearly $56 million, within the Great Lakes Basin, the nation's most significant freshwater ecosystem.  Read more>

Mosquito Creek Wildlife Management Area, OH

At the request of Ohio’s Division of Wildlife, the Fund secured a 490-acre property in Trumbull County’s 8,500-acre Mosquito Creek Wildlife Management Area, one of the state's most popular hunting and fishing destinations and just an hour's drive from Youngstown and Cleveland.  Read more>

North Bass Island, OH

Most of North Bass Island, one of Lake Erie’s last undeveloped islands, is now protected thanks to the critical support of the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation.  Read more>

Q & A: Mike Kelly on Great Lakes Conservation

Recently, Mike Kelly spoke with Mott Foundation Communications Officer/New Media Ann Richards from his office in Bay City, Michigan, about how the fund works and why it is such an important tool to conservancies throughout the Great Lakes states.   Read more>

Spruce Hill Earthworks, OH

The Conservation Fund helped secure the Spruce Hill Earthworks, a walled ceremonial site in central Ohio that is thought to have been built by the Hopewell culture nearly 2,000 years ago.  Read more>
Regional Scorecard - Midwest
Acres Protected: 283,390
Fair Market Value: $330,924,635
Acquisition Cost: $173,679,599
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Mill Lake Youth Camp
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