Conservation Force
- 10 Service Rd W Ste I
- Metairie, Louisiana
- 70001-6911
- Phone: (504) 837-1233
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Description
Conservation Force is a fully qualified Land Trust that owns ecologically important lands and conservation easements. It managed those lands and policed the easements in 2004-6. In 2004 it cleared its island on the Tangipahoa River in Louisiana of all structures and helped bring adjacent river frontage in compliance with the Scenic River Act. In 2005 CF threatened legal action to enforce an easement it holds on 2,000 acres important to "threatened" black bear recovery (a corridor between a national wildlife refuge and state wildlife management area) which was resolved by the adoption of a comprehensive management plan by the naked owner of the property. In 2006 CF completed a draft proposal to add several miles of additional water frontage to an existing easement. We also participated in the development of national policies governing conservation easements that came to fruition in 2006. CF participated in the National Conservation in Action Summit on National Wildlife Refuges and thereafter (2004-6) tracked and participated in the development of "comprehensive conservation plans" (CCP) in those 95 million acres as they arose. Since Hurricane Katrina in 2005 we have led a debris location and removal program in the Delta National Wildlife Refuge and Delta Wildlife Management Area as well as participated in drafting the CCP (15 year plan) for that refuge at the mouth of the Mississippi River. CF also continued its Doorways to Waterways and Wetlands Restoration projects in the...