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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.

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.

Northern Bobwhite Quail, Grassland and Savannas Partner Workspace: This space is meant to be user-friendly. We hope you can find other partners here, share information and training materials, and enhance each other's capability to achieve large-scale change in working landscapes. The workspace can be used to draft training materials, unedited videos, and other content not yet ready for broader sharing, as well as store some materials that may be sensitive for immediate or near-term sharing.

Sage Grouse: Sage grouse define the American West. We're working to make sure they thrive through win-win, voluntary conservation.

Yazoo Darter: The Yazoo darter (Etheostoma raneyi) is a small fish that is found only in two watersheds – the Little Tallahatchie and Yocona River watersheds in northern Mississippi.

Shorebirds of Louisiana Wetlands: Birds like the lesser yellowlegs (Tringa flavipes), buff-breasted sandpiper (Calidris subruficollis), stilt sandpiper (Calidris himantopus) and short-billed dowitcher (Limnodromus griseus) use Louisiana’s wetlands as pit stops during their annual journeys south.

Northeast Turtles: The wetlands of the Northeast are home to a variety of wildlife, including the rare Blandings turtle (Emydoidea blandingii), wood turtle (Glyptemys insculpta) and spotted turtle (Clemmys guttata). All three of these turtles are under consideration for listing under the Endangered Species Act.