Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, with Wausau Paper and The Conservation Fund, announced in June 2007 the conservation of nearly 6,000 acres of working forestland to be incorporated into the Brule River State Forest.
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>The Fund's acquisition of more than 400 acres along the Wisconsin River safeguards sensitive shoreline habitat for vulnerable wildlife species such as the endangered ornate box turtle and trumpeter swan.
Read more>The Conservation Fund continued its work with the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District to implement the district's Conservation Plan, an ambitious initiative to conserve water and prevent flooding through land protection.
Read more>Since 1994, the Fund and its partners have protected more than 14,400 acres of important wildlife habitat and recreation lands along the great river valued at over $19.6 million.
Read more>The Conservation Fund works with the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District to implement the District’s Greenseams program, an ambitious initiative to conserve water and prevent flooding through land protection.
Read more>To protect this uniquely American landscape, The Conservation Fund has, since 1985, joined with public agencies, private land trusts and landowners to safeguard more than 52,000 acres of recreation areas, wetlands, working forests and wilderness in the Upper Midwest.
Read more>In concert with the Packaging Corporation of America and Wisconsin's Department of Natural Resources, the Fund helped protect nearly 1,000 acres of forestland along the shores of Willow Creek in northeastern Wisconsin.
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