# The Conservation Fund > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/The_Conservation_Fund > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/The_Conservation_Fund.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conservation_Fund > Source revision: 1349390976 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|U.S. non-profit organization}} {{COI|date=April 2014}} {{Infobox organization | name = The Conservation Fund | logo = | type = | founded = 1985 | founder = Pat Noonan | location = [Arlington, Virginia](/source/Arlington%2C_Virginia) | key_people = | region_served = United States | focus = | method = The Fund's Conservation Strategy is through balancing environmental preservation and economic development. | revenue = | endowment = | num_volunteers = | num_employees = 140 | num_members = | website = {{URL|https://www.conservationfund.org/}} }} '''The Conservation Fund''' is a U.S. [nonprofit organization](/source/nonprofit_organization) with a dual charter to pursue environmental preservation and economic development. From 2008 to 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.{{Cite web|date=2018-09-10|title=The Conservation Fund|url=https://www.bjtonline.com/business-jet-news/the-conservation-fund|access-date=2020-06-21|website=Business Jet Traveler|language=en}} Since its founding in 1985, the organization has protected land and water in all 50 states, including parks, historic battlefields, and wild areas.{{cite web|title=The Conservation Fund homepage|url=http://www.conservationfund.org}} 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 [Pat Noonan](/source/Patrick_Noonan), former head of the [Nature Conservancy](/source/Nature_Conservancy). The current CEO is Larry Selzer. About 200 full-time staff work in the Fund's headquarters, located in [Arlington, Virginia](/source/Arlington%2C_Virginia), and in offices in several states across the U.S. including [California](/source/California), [Florida](/source/Florida), [Michigan](/source/Michigan), [Minnesota](/source/Minnesota), North Carolina, [Pennsylvania](/source/Pennsylvania), Oregon, Texas and Wyoming. ==Conservation strategy== The Fund's services include land acquisition, [conservation finance](/source/conservation_finance), small [green business financing](/source/Green_bank), community and economic development, [environmental mitigation](/source/environmental_mitigation) services, [green infrastructure](/source/green_infrastructure) planning, and conservation training. The Fund works primarily with partners who have identified conservation priorities and request assistance achieving their goals. Frequent partners include federal government agencies—such as the [National Park Service](/source/National_Park_Service), [U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service](/source/U.S._Fish_and_Wildlife_Service), [U.S. Forest Service](/source/U.S._Forest_Service), and [Bureau of Land Management](/source/Bureau_of_Land_Management)—and state agencies, such as [departments of natural resources](/source/Department_of_Natural_Resources_(disambiguation)). [Land trust](/source/Land_trust)s, corporations, foundations and other non-profit organizations are also common partners. == Timeline: 1985–2015 == 1985 * Patrick Noonan founds The Conservation Fund. 2001 * The Great Lakes Revolving Fund was created in 2001 with a $4 million grant from the [Charles Stewart Mott Foundation](/source/Charles_Stewart_Mott_Foundation). 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](/source/Saugatuck_Dunes_State_Park) on [Lake Michigan](/source/Lake_Michigan){{cite web | url=https://www.mott.org/news/articles/innovative-loan-fund-preserves-natural-habitat/ | title=Innovative fund protects natural assets in the Great Lakes basin | publisher=[Mott Foundation](/source/Mott_Foundation) | date=October 17, 2017 | accessdate=March 25, 2018}}—saving wetlands, dunelands and safe havens for migratory birds and other threatened species. 2011 * The Conservation Fund helped the [National Park Service](/source/National_Park_Service) acquire a 95-acre property, historically known as the Harman Farm,{{Cite web|last1=Gettysburg|first1=Mailing Address: 1195 Baltimore Pike|last2=Us|first2=PA 17325 Phone:334-1124 Contact|title=Sec. of Interior Announces Important Land Preservation at Gettysburg - Gettysburg National Military Park (U.S. National Park Service)|url=https://www.nps.gov/gett/learn/news/harman-farm-aquired-3-25-11.htm|access-date=2020-06-22|website=www.nps.gov|language=en}} which was the site of significant fighting during the first day of the [Battle of Gettysburg](/source/Battle_of_Gettysburg). 2012 * After a nearly five-year process, the Fund conveys the final piece of [Rocky Fork](/source/Rocky_Fork_State_Park_(Tennessee)), the largest tract of unprotected land in the southern Appalachian Mountains, to the [US Forest Service](/source/US_Forest_Service) in September 2012.{{cite web|title=Cherokee National Forest Press Release: 'Forest Service Acquires Final Rocky Fork Tract' |url=http://www.conservationfund.org/press-releases/rocky-fork-tennessee-2012/}} Tennessee named it the newest state park that year.{{cite web|title=State of Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation Press Release: 'Governor Haslam And Senator Alexander Name Rocky Fork Proposed Site For Tennessee's 55th State Park'|url=http://www.conservationfund.org/press-releases/governor-haslam-and-senator-alexander-name-rocky-fork-proposed-site-for-tennessees-55th-state-park/}} 2013 * The Conservation Fund plays an instrumental role in the protection of key historic lands for the establishment of [First State National Monument](/source/First_State_National_Monument) in Delaware{{cite web|title=Delaware's 'First State National Monument'|url=https://www.conservationfund.org/projects/woodlawn-property-a-new-national-park-in-delaware/}} and [Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Monument](/source/Harriet_Tubman_Underground_Railroad_National_Monument) in Maryland.{{cite web|title=Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Monument|url=https://www.conservationfund.org/projects/efforts-to-honor-harriet-tubmans-legacy/}} * 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.{{cite web|title=Buckeye Forest|url=https://www.conservationfund.org/projects/buckeye-forest/}} 2015 * The Conservation Fund partners with [Apple](/source/Apple_Inc.).{{cite web|title=Apple Is Buying Up 36,000 Acres Of Forest To Conserve It'|website=[BuzzFeed](/source/BuzzFeed) |date=16 April 2015 |url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/ellencushing/apple-is-buying-up-36000-acres-of-forest-to-preserve-it#.djzBX1l4m7}} ==See also== [Garcia River Forest](/source/Garcia_River_Forest) (a forest in Northern California owned and managed by the Conservation Fund) ==References== {{Reflist}} *Charity Navigator [http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=4537] *American Institute of Philanthropy [https://www.charitywatch.org/top-rated-charities] *Great Nonprofits [https://greatnonprofits.org/org/the-conservation-fund] {{more citations needed|date=December 2013}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Conservation Fund}} Category:Environmental organizations based in Virginia Category:Organizations based in Arlington County, Virginia Category:Organizations established in 1985 Category:1985 establishments in Virginia --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [The Conservation Fund](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conservation_Fund) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conservation_Fund?action=history)). 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