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>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>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>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>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>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.
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