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In 2018, the Nature Conservancy of Nebraska transferred 160 acres of historic tribal land in Richardson County to the Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska. The Nature Conservancy purchased the land in 1994 with help from the Nebraska Environmental Trust. [2] In 2020, the Nature Conservancy transferred an additional 284 acres of land to the tribe. [1]
Hanging Bog State Preserve is a 16-acre (6.5 ha) forest that is on the edge of the Cedar River valley in Iowa. [1] It was deeded to The Nature Conservancy in 1968, and it became a state preserve in 1981.
Founded in 1951, The Nature Conservancy has over one million members globally as of 2021 and has protected more than 119 million acres (48 million ha) of land in its history. [5] As of 2014, [update] it is the largest environmental non-profit organization by assets and revenue in the Americas.
The Aldo Leopold Foundation of Baraboo, Wisconsin, was founded in 1982 by Aldo and Estella Leopold's five children as a 501(c)3 not-for-profit conservation organization whose mission is "to foster the land ethic through the legacy of Aldo Leopold."
Patrick F. Noonan (born 1943) is an American conservationist and was president of The Nature Conservancy from 1973 to 1980, [1] and the Conservation Fund. [2] [3] He was a recipient of the Lady Bird Johnson Environmental Award.
Between 1954 and 1956, he served as the founding president of the Nature Conservancy. In 1954, the president of the Audubon Society thought it would be impossible to raise funds in time to save the Corkscrew Swamp from logging that was set to begin in ten days, but Pough stepped in and raised the funding one day before the deadline. [2]
Steve McCormick is the former president of The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (2007–2014) and the former president and CEO of The Nature Conservancy (2000–2007). In May 2014, Gordon Moore announced that McCormick was leaving the Moore Foundation [1] to co-found a startup to create the first global, open-source database on ecosystem services and natural capital, called The Earth Genome. [2]
The Nature Conservancy also owns several preserve areas in the Hills which are open to the public, including Broken Kettle Grasslands Preserve—the largest contiguous tract of native prairie left in Iowa. [4] The Loess Hills State Forest is located in west-central Iowa in Harrison and Monona counties.