As of March 13, 2008, the Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation has protected 100,000th acres of Iowa's special places. INHF, a private nonprofit conservation group, was created to work in partnership with other private and public conservation groups—along with Iowa's landowners and citizens.

As part of INHF's partnership philosophy, most of our project sites are now owned and managed by other organizations. The chart below shows who those owners/partners are. INHF's role on any given site may have included landowner negotiations, temporary ownership, fundraising, land management services, technical assistance and/or other support. You can see more complete statistics below the chart. You can also view our county-by-county project list.

Site owner/manager	Acres	Notes
Cities	431
Counties	36,054	County conservation boards
State	29,583	Mostly Iowa DNR, some Iowa DOT & one to Iowa State Historical Society
Federal	5,275	Mostly USFWS. The Effigy Mounds addition is held by the National Park Service
Private conservation groups	4,791	Whiterock Conservancy & others
Private conservation easements	13,867	Owned by private landowners; most do not permit public access
INHF	10,638	Most acres are pending public transfer

For more information, e-mail Cathy Engstrom, Director of Communications, or call (515) 288-1846.