The Conservation Fund

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The Conservation Fund is a U.S. nonprofit organization with a dual charter to pursue environmental preservation and economic development. From 2008–2018, it has placed more than 500,000 acres under conservation management through a program whose goal is to purchase and permanently protect working forests.^[1] Since its founding in 1985, the organization has protected land and water in all 50 states, including parks, historic battlefields, and wild areas.^[2] The Fund works with community and government leaders, businesses, landowners, conservation nonprofits and other partners to integrate economic and environmental objectives.

The Conservation Fund was founded in 1985 by

• Patrick Noonan founds The Conservation Fund.[1]

2001

• The Great Lakes Revolving Fund was created in 2001 with a $4 million grant from the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation.^[3]

2009

• The Fund's Great Lakes Revolving Fund helped the Land Conservancy of West Michigan protect a critical stretch of shoreline that became part of the Saugatuck Dunes State Park on Lake Michigan^[3]—saving wetlands, dunelands and safe havens for migratory birds and other threatened species.

2011

• The Conservation Fund helped the National Park Service acquire a 95-acre property, historically known as the Harman Farm,^[4] which was the site of significant fighting during the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg.

2012

• After a nearly five-year process, the Fund conveys the final piece of
  US Forest Service in September 2012.^[5] Tennessee named it the newest state park that year.^[6]

• The Conservation Fund plays an instrumental role in the protection of key historic lands for the establishment of
  Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Monument in Maryland.^[8]
• The Fund completes a decade-long effort to reunite and conserve a 30-mile forested property on California's North Coast with the purchase of Buckeye Forest.[9]

2015

• The Conservation Fund partners with Apple.^[10]

See also

Garcia River Forest (a forest in Northern California owned and managed by the Conservation Fund)

References

• Charity Navigator [1]
• American Institute of Philanthropy [2]
• Great Nonprofits [3]

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