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. Since its founding in 1985, the organization has protected land and water in all 50 states, including parks, historic battlefields, and wild areas. The Fund works with community and government leaders, businesses, landowners, conservation nonprofits and other partners to integrate economic and environmental objectives.
6-998: The Conservation Fund was founded in 1985 by Pat Noonan , former head of the Nature Conservancy . The current CEO is Larry Selzer. About 140 full-time staff work in the Fund's headquarters, located in Arlington, Virginia , and in offices in several states across the U.S. including California , Florida , Michigan , Minnesota , North Carolina, Pennsylvania , Oregon, Texas and Wyoming. The Fund's services include land acquisition, conservation finance , small green business financing , community and economic development, environmental mitigation services, 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
12-764: A MS in City and Regional Planning. He has served on three Presidential Commissions: the Commission on Americans Outdoors; Commission on Environmental Quality; and the Commission on White House Fellows. He currently serves on the board of trustees of the National Geographic Society and is Vice Chairman of the Society's Education Foundation. He is also on the board of advisors of the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions and
18-556: The National Park Service , U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service , U.S. Forest Service , and Bureau of Land Management —and state agencies, such as departments of natural resources . Land trusts , corporations, foundations and other non-profit organizations are also common partners. 1985 2001 2009 2011 2012 2013 2015 Garcia River Forest (a forest in Northern California owned and managed by
24-707: The Conservation Fund) Patrick Noonan Patrick F. Noonan (born 1943) is an American conservationist and was president of The Nature Conservancy from 1973 to 1980, and the Conservation Fund . He was a recipient of the Lady Bird Johnson Environmental Award . He graduated from Gettysburg College with BS Business Administration, (1965), from American University with an MBA, and from Catholic University of America , with
30-521: The great outdoors on rural lands owned by his family in Maryland. He developed there a deep and abiding love for nature and respect for its beauty. Later he noted, 'I had the privilege of transferring the land to the Maryland Parks and Planning Commission to create Little Bennett Regional Park. It was the most satisfying moment of my life, realizing that for all time generations would come to walk
36-561: Was previously a board member of the Chesapeake Conservancy . His daughter, Karen Elizabeth Noonan (1967–1988) was one of the victims of the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie , Scotland. Noonan is quoted in the profile prepared by the American Academy for Park and Recreation Administration when he received its Pugsley Medal in 2005: "Noonan's early childhood was spent with weekends in
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