This month’s Northeast RGS & AWS regional partnership spotlight focuses on Campfire Conservation Fund, Inc. which is based in Chappaqua, NY. Established in 1977, Campfire Conservation Fund works closely with the Campfire Club of America’s conservation committee, promoting awareness around the intelligent use of natural resources, supporting hunter and angler-led conservation efforts, and enabling education and public information projects linked to hunting, fishing, and shooting sports activities.
Over its forty-five-year span, Campfire Conservation Fund, Inc. has supported hundreds of important conservation programs throughout the Northeast region, including the SUNY ESF Lecture Series, National Conservation Leadership Institute, and the SUNY ESF Belant Wildlife Conservation program.Campfire Conservation Fund, Inc. is supporting RGS & AWS’ forest habitat restoration efforts and outreach in the Northeast U.S. through a multi-year funding commitment that has been instrumental in launching our projects and programs in New York and New England.
Their support helped us secure funding from the U.S. Forest Service’s Landscape Scale Restoration grant for the Massachusetts Dynamic Forest Restoration Initiative – a public and private lands habitat restoration partnership with Massachusetts Department of Fish & Game, Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation, Mount Grace Land Trust, and National Wild Turkey Federation. This project will restore over sixteen hundred acres of forest habitat diversity on public lands and over four hundred acres of invasive species mitigation on private lands throughout central and western Massachusetts.
Along with working toward balanced forest landscape conditions, the initiative also includes a key public awareness and educational component which highlights the importance of this work for wildlife diversity and resilient, healthy forests. We appreciate the support from Campfire Conservation Fund, Inc., and celebrate its association with Campfire Club of America, whose rich conservation legacy includes saving American bison and the establishment of Glacier National Park.
“The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans”
“Try to leave this world a little better than you found it and, when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate you have not wasted your time but have done your best”
“...conservation of land and conservation of people frequently go hand in hand”
“Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you”
“There can be no greater issue than that of conservation in this country”
“Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land”
“Leave this world a little better than you found it”
“A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children”
“The purpose of conservation: The greatest good to the greatest number of people for the longest time”
“We and the beasts are kin”
“Like the resource it seeks to protect, wildlife conservation must be dynamic, changing as conditions change, seeking always to become more effective”