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.