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The Conservation Foundation: The support of more than 5,000 members and 500 volunteers helps us carry out our mission to improve the health of our communities by preserving and restoring open space and natural lands, protecting rivers and watersheds, and promoting stewardship of our environment in northeastern Illinois. We focus our work in DuPage, Kane, Kendall, and Will Counties where we have helped preserve more than 35,000 acres of open space, and we also go where we are needed in LaSalle, DeKalb, and Grundy Counties.

New analysis highlights conservation challenges and opportunities on Western public lands: Recently published science applies remote-sensing tools to BLM-managed rangelands and provides an unprecedented record of how the vegetation across this enormous area has changed over the past 30 years.

The Conservation Foundation Private Landowners: The connections between people and land are countless. Land can provide a spiritual sense of place, happy memories of times past, and hope for future generations’ connections with the land around them. Some of our greatest accomplishments have been tied to preserving not only the land, but the legacies that go with it. There are many reasons why someone may want to ensure the long-term protection of a piece of land or restore its ecological health and many ways to accomplish it. Check out the many options that are available for you to protect or restore your special place.

Defenders of Wildlife Private Lands Conservation: Defenders works with private landowners, land trusts and other partners to communicate, educate and apply conservation and restoration techniques on the ground habitat to advance species recovery and wildlife coexistence on private lands nationwide.

Using the Conservation Tax Incentive: The permanent conservation easement tax incentive is a powerful tool that helps Americans conserve their land voluntarily.

The Nature Conservancy Private Lands Conservation: The Nature Conservancy works to establish local groups that can protect land. Private lands conservation is an innovative tactic that leverages the increasing interest of the private sector to take part in conservation. TNC works with landowners, communities, cooperatives and businesses to establish local groups that can protect land. Some of the main tools used to achieve these goals include land trusts, conservation easements, private reserves and incentives.

Driftless Prairies: Native Ecosystems-The Interaction of Fire and Grass: Understanding the biology and physiology of grass in management decisions

Colorado State University Extension Fire Resources: The most up-to-date fire-related resources, from CSU Extension and our partnering agencies.

Utah Department of Agriculture and Food Conservation Division: The Utah Department of Agriculture and Food works with farmers and ranchers through conservation planning and assistance designed to benefit the soil, water, air, plants, and animals that result in productive lands and healthy ecosystems.

Western Oregon University CERT Resources: CERT is about readiness, people helping people, rescuer safety...

A Guide to Staying Safe During Wildfires: This all-in-one guide delivers the essential strategies and tactics to keep you safe from wildfire — no matter where you live.

AFS Newsletter February 2023: AFS Newsletter: Latin America Congress Abstract Deadline Extended, Award Nominations Open, Rockfish Citizen Science.

The Nature Conservancy Nature Lab: Nature is the fantastic factory that makes the building blocks of all our lives—food, drinking water, the stuff we own, and the air we breathe. That’s why The Nature Conservancy and its 550 scientists have created Nature Lab: to help students learn the science behind how nature works for us and how we can help keep it running strong.