Adopt an Acre

The Nature Conservancy’s Adopt an Acre® program is raising funds to to help protect the Appalachians. By adopting an acre for yourself or a friend, you can help protect one of the world's most beautiful and diverse habitats.
 

Challenges

Find out how we’re addressing threats to the Central Appalachians such as development and unsustainable forest management practice. 

Climate Change Resilience

As the nation debates the proper limits for greenhouse gas emissions, climate change is already altering human and natural systems. But building nature's resilience to climate change it is an important and cost-effective response to our changing world. Click to learn more.

News

For their first date, Robert and Carolyn Wells woke up at 4:30 a.m. to go catfishing.

It was the beginning of a shared love of nature and the outdoors that would span the rest of their lives together - and culminate in a $9 million bequest to The Nature Conservancy. 

Who was Robert Wells?