A statewide endowment fund looks to help state-owned lands.

In the first year after its creation, donors from all 50 states gave to the Cherish Wisconsin Outdoors Fund. It is a statewide endowment fund that was started by the Natural Resources Foundation of Wisconsin. The fund will provide money to help support management projects for state-owned lands.

"Back in February, 2012, the state legislature voted to create this new statewide endowment fund to benefit habitat work on state-owned lands," said Ruth Oppedahl, executive director of the Natural Resources Foundation of Wisconsin. "This piece of legislation was unanimously approved and signed by the governor and went into effect last September."

In its first year, the fund raised roughly $91,000.

Full story: WJFW

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