A mix of Altamaha River bottomland hardwood and forested pine uplands provides habitat for one of Georgia’s largest populations of gopher tortoise, a candidate for listing under the Endangered Species Act.

Protecting Georgia Forestland:

The Conservation Fund

Protecting Georgia Forestland:

The Conservation Fund

The Conservation Fund (TCF), which focuses on the intersection of conservation and community, believes that environmental protection and economic vitality are inseparable. With support from the Foundation during the last three decades, TCF has protected more than three million acres of critical habitat in all 50 states, including Civil War battlefields, expansive ecosystems, and working forests.

Foundation funding of $7 million, demonstrating a public-private partnership with the federal government, will help TCF protect 14,225 acres of land in Georgia, more than 7,000 acres of which abut and are leased as part of the Bullard Creek Wildlife Management Area. The Georgia Department of Natural Resources will purchase an easement on these lands, using the parcel as a recreational area and to enhance gopher tortoise habitat on sandy sites. The remaining 7,154 acres comprise two separate sections near or adjacent to Fort Stewart. The Army, through its Compatible Use Buffer program, will buy a conservation easement from TCF to stop the encroachment of residential development.

(Above)A mix of Altamaha River bottomland hardwood and forested pine uplands provides habitat for one of Georgia’s largest populations of gopher tortoise, a candidate for listing under the Endangered Species Act.
Featured Grants
$1,000,000

Toward purchase of property in Appling, Bryan, Bulloch, and Jeff Davis counties, Georgia

$2,000,000

Toward purchase of property in Appling, Bryan, Bulloch, and Jeff Davis counties, Georgia

$4,000,000

A program-related investment toward purchase of property in Appling, Bryan, Bulloch, and Jeff Davis counties, GA

$2,000,000

A program-related investment toward purchase of property known as Success Pond in Coos County, New Hampshire

$7,000,000

Toward protection of land in northern Wisconsin

$5,000,000

Toward protection of 7,051 acres in Texas

$10,000,000

Toward protection of 12,000 acres in the East Grand Lake region of Maine

$2,500,000

To protect and preserve the Rocky Mountain Front ecosystem

$15,300,000

toward purchase of the Cross City and Yankee properties

$5,000,000

a program-related investment made toward purchase of the Cross City property

$900,000

toward three-year support of operations

$3,000,000

toward purchase of property known as Success Pond in Coos County, New Hampshire

$2,500,000

to help implement a strategy to protect and preserve the Rocky Mountain Front ecosystem

$2,000,000

toward the purchase of an easement of working forestland

$200,000

toward the retirement of grazing rights at Sand Ranch, New Mexico

$2,000,000

toward the purchase of property in Adams County, Pennsylvania

$382,500

toward the purchase of property in Indiana and Cambria Counties, Pennsylvania

$25,000

toward the creation of a land conservation web site

$225,000

toward the development of a land conservation database

$1,000,000

toward the purchase of property in Maine

$500,000

toward operating support of The National Forum and Children and Nature

$2,300,000

toward the purchase of property in Adams County, Pennsylvania

$900,000

toward three-year support to conserve Pennsylvania's and the nation's great legacy of land and water resources

$440,000

toward the purchase of property in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania

$5,000,000

to help implement a strategy to protect and preserve the Rocky Mountain Front ecosystem

$250,000

toward support of the 2008 American Outdoors Review

$4,380,000

to acquire conservation easements of working forestland in Adirondack State Park. The newly protected lands will conserve sensitive wildlife habitat, protect water quality, and serve as sustainably managed, working forests to benefit the Adirondack Region's economy

$4,084,000

toward the purchase and protection of land in West Texas

$607,000

toward the purchase and protection of land in northern Pennsylvania

$60,000

toward the purchase and protection of land in western Pennsylvania

$7,765,000

toward land purchase and easements in the Grand Canyon and Maine

$3,500,000

toward acquisition and preservation of the Laurel Hill property in Cambria County, Pennsylvania

$2,200,000

toward support to acquire and hold land for the Zoological Society of Pittsburgh intended to be developed into an International Conservation Center in Somerset County, Pennsylvania

$1,175,000

toward acquisition and preservation of the Laurel Fields property in Clear Creek State Forest, Pennsylvania

$800,000

toward support to help purchase and preserve critical watershed in northeastern Pennsylvania

$1,900,000

toward support to purchase and conserve property adjoining the C.M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge in Montana

$900,000

toward three-year support of operations

$2,100,000

toward support to purchase and conserve land in the Brush Valley Watershed, in partnership with the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources

$1,800,000

toward the purchase and conservation of land in the Cheat Canyon in West Virginia

$1,981,910

toward the purchase of land in north-central Pennsylvania for the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources

$100,000

toward support of a summit meeting of state natural resource agency leadership

$300,000

toward three-year support of operations

$2,500,000

toward three-year support for a capital campaign

$200,000

toward support to develop a GIS map outlining land conservation priorities and to support a conference on natural resources

$2,500,000

toward support of a capital campaign

$2,500,000

toward support of a capital campaign

$300,000

toward three-year support of operations