Wisconsin's Endangered Resources Fund

Ecologist holding turtle — NHC ecologist Carly Lapin is holding a state-threatened wood turtle.

Your donation to the Endangered Resources Fund helps protect and restore endangered species and their habitats. Donations help staff control invasive species and conduct prescribed burns to maintain hundreds of State Natural Areas. Donations to the Endangered Resources Fund are not used for wolf management purposes.

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DOUBLE YOUR IMPACT ON WISCONSIN'S RARE AND ENDANGERED SPECIES

Your gift is matched dollar for dollar by the state, doubling the difference you make for bats, butterflies, songbirds, loons, frogs, turtles, rare orchids and many more native plants and animals. See how we put your money to work.
Endangered species conservation lacks a stable, dedicated source of funding. Donations and state matches provide 20% of funding and are critical to getting this conservation work done. Your gift of any size makes a big difference!

Donations have brought back trumpeter swans, osprey and bald eagles; have protected and managed the nation's most extensive system of nature preserves, our State Natural Areas; and have prevented hundreds of other wildlife and plant species from vanishing from Wisconsin forever. Your gift will safeguard these natural treasures and fund future conservation successes.