The Nature Conservancy. Protecting nature. Preserving life.™

Lowe’s Charitable and Educational Foundation has been a longtime supporter of The Nature Conservancy – from its support for individual conservation projects to its more recent strategic commitment to protecting the forests of North America.   

Conservation Highlights

Since 2005, Lowe’s has contributed more than $5 million through its foundation to help fund forest projects across the United States and Canada, with a focus on advancing conservation at a scale needed to protect biodiversity and natural areas for future generations.

In 2010 Lowe’s donation of $1.25 million helped the Conservancy protect and maintain some of the most important forestlands in the United States, including: 

• Projects in the broadleaf forests of the Appalachian range that extend from Alabama to Canada, including those that encompass hundreds of thousands of acres in New York and Tennessee. 
• The acquisition of the 310,000-acre Crown of the Continent project in Montana, one of the largest forest conservation initiatives in the Conservancy’s history.   
• The purchase and restoration of critical forestland in Washington State (known as the Three Rivers Forest Project) that helped connect a mountainous national park and a national forest to the ocean, all for the benefit of salmon and other species reliant upon forestlands and freshwater rivers. 
• The acquisition of the 136,405-acre Darkwoods property in southern British Columbia – the largest property purchased for conservation in Canadian history.  
• The acquisition of a forested landscape crucial to the health of Virginia’s Chesapeake Bay. 

Lowe’s generosity and multi-year commitment to help protect The Forests of North America has allowed the Conservancy to deliver conservation that counts.

To learn more about our partnership with Lowe's, read the corporate case study about our results.