Hard times for real estate developers means good times for conservationists as plummeting property values put tens of thousands of additional acres of historic and scenic property within their reach. While not every market has softened, conservationists have had significant success in Florida, the Southwest and parts of California, said Will ...

Some of the most prized land in the northern Rocky Mountains is being protected from development in a conservation land deal hailed as the largest of its kind in U.S. history. More than 300,000 acres of critical habitat for threatened and endangered animals ...