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Land and Water Conservation Funding Conserves Places Americans Love

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Federal support from the Land and Water Conservation Fund has been critical to the conservation of some of our nation's most treasured spaces. In a recently-released report, over 50 conservation organizations detail the benefits of land conservation, making a clear and compelling case for full funding of this federal program. You can learn more about the report by reading the press release, or download a pdf of the full report here.

You can also learn more about the sites depicted in the slide show below (complete list follows), lands TPL helped conserve with Federal Land and Water Conservation funding.

Murphy Farm - Harpers Ferry National Park, West Virginia
This project protected the site of both a Civil War battle and a historic meeting of African-American leaders that led to the creation of the NAACP.
Read success story
Learn more about the history of Murphy Farm
Read press release

Chickamauga-Chattanooga battlefield, Tennessee
Protecting historic Civil War Battlefield sites is an important part of TPL's mission.
Read success story Read press release

Congaree National Park, South Carolina
TPL has helped protect property in the Congaree National Park which holds the largest intact tract of old-growth bottomland hardwood forest in the United States, and features some of the tallest trees in the East.
Read press release

Tahoe National Forest, California
One of many TPL projects that consolidate tracts of land (and their ecosystems) where ownership falls into "checkerboard" patterns.
Learn more about TPL's work in California's Sierra Nevada Mountains

Madison River, Montana
TPL helped conserve almost 1,700 acres of critical habitat and hunting and fishing grounds in Yellowstone National Park.
Read success story
Read more about Montana's checkerboard lands

Monroe School - Topeka, Kansas
This school was involved in the Brown v. Board of Education suit, in which the Supreme Court outlawed segregation and is now a National Park Service site.
Read success story

Silvio O. Conte National Fish & Wildlife Refuge
This refuge is part of TPL's Connecticut River Program, protects important habitat in four states (CT, MA, NH, VT)
Read press release
Learn more about the Connecticut River Program

Reeb claim/New World Mining District, Montana
This project will add almost 1,500 acres from a private mining claim to the Gallatin and Custer National Forests, just outside of Yellowstone National Park.
Read press release

Cuyahoga National Park, Cleveland, Ohio
Several projects in this parkland helped conserve land along the historic corridor along the Erie Canal.
Learn more
Read press release (2008)
Read press release (2004)

Gila National Forest, New Mexico
The sixth largest national forest in the contiguous United States. TPL has several projects in New Mexico's watersheds.
Read related TPL New Mexico Newsletter article (Spring 2008)
Learn more about New Mexico's Land and Water Program

TPL's Alan Front

Listen to audio clip of Alan Front, TPL's Senior Vice President for Federal Affairs and Public Policy discussing land conservation and climate change. (1:45)

Posted 3/2009