The Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation is a statewide Iowa land trust, which has worked for more than thirty years to protect and restore over a hundred thousand acres of forests, prairies, wetlands, parks and trail systems. It has a large and active membership, and it has received national accreditation from the Land Trust Alliance. It is clearly one of the nation's best run conservation organizations.

The American Prairie Foundation (aka American Prairie Reserve) is surely one of the most visionary conservation organizations ever. It is acquiring and restoring lands on the eastern Montana Great Plains with a goal of connecting to and adding to the Charles M Russell National Wildlife Refuge and the Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, eventually creating a 3.5 million acre natural area, resembling what this region was like in the days of Lewis and Clark. APF is a well run organization. It has a strong list of supporters and scientific advisors. It has encouragement from the World Wildlife Fund and the National Geographic Society.

The Center for Biological Diversity is far and away the most effective of the fifty-plus conservation organizations that I have contributed to during the past twenty years. With its small administrative staff and a world of "guts", the Center takes on challenging problems against some of the toughest opponents, ranging from huge corporations to governmental agencies and entrenched politicians. On top of that, they actually win most of these batlles! I just love them!!