Tennessee’s gateway to the Southern Appalachian Mountains – a 9,624-acre property known as Rocky Fork –has been a privately-owned favorite destination to hike, hunt and fish for decades. Together with the U.S. Forest Service, we acquired this high-priority landscape in 2008 and are now raising money to transfer the entire property to the Forest Service and state of Tennessee for permanent ownership and management. Browse our photo gallery and learn more about this one-of-a-kind landscape.
Read more>Renowned as the "biological crossroads of North America," the Big Thicket is a remarkable mix of southeastern swamps, eastern deciduous forest, central plains, pine savannas and dry sandhills. It is home to a variety of animals including the bald eagle, peregrine falcon, swallow-tailed kite and Louisiana pine snake.
Read more>Outdoor enthusiasts—not to mention elk, bighorn sheep, pronghorn antelope, and other wildlife—have new room to roam in Montana’s Elkhorn mountains after The Conservation Fund and its partners successfully closed a five-year effort to conserve Iron Mask.
Read more>The final piece in the 20,000-acre, 28-parcel Green Mountain Corridor was secured in 2006, completing a 12-year initiative led by the Fund and its partners.
Read more>We protected approximately one mile of shoreline at Mispillion Harbor - an area that is critical to the imperiled red knot bird species.
Read more>In June 2007 The Conservation Fund and The Great Land Trust, in partnership with the Alaska Division of Parks and Outdoor Recreation, announced the completion of a multi-year effort to secure public access to Rabbit Creek Valley within Chugach State Park.
Read more>In its first year, the Rocky Mountain Front Initiative has moved forward with four projects, protecting 21,274 acres of critical migratory corridors for grizzly bears and a wide variety of other species that depend on the Front’s rich ecosystem.
Read more>The Fund and its partners, with assistance from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, have protected nearly 12,000 acres of agricultural land and wildlife habitat within the Snake River watershed as part of a conservation initiative in the Greater Yellowstone area.
Read more>The Conservation Fund’s Southwest Alaska Salmon Habitat Initiative, the largest land protection project of its kind, offers an exciting opportunity to help conserve one of the greatest natural landscapes in North America.
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