2012 has been a successful year for The Conservation Alliance and our grantees. We contributed a record $1.3 million to 37 organizations works to protect our wild places in North America and celebrated nine important conservation victories. To learn more about these victories and get the full-year wrap-up, click here to view our 2012:…
Alaska Wilderness League & Audubon Alaska National Petroleum Reserve: 11 Million Acres Protected Photo: Dave Shreffler On December 19, the Interior Department released its final management plan for the 23-million acre National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska. This first-ever plan for the reserve will guide management of the area, including energy development and conservation. The final plan calls…
Photo: Mark Berry In 2011, The Conservation Alliance funded Downeast Lakes Land Trust’s West Grand Lake Community Forest Campaign to permanently protect 21,700 acres as a community forest. On Tuesday, December 18th, the acquisition of a conservation easement on this land was announced. This easement includes 17 miles of shoreline on West Grand, Big, and…
{worthWILD} ALLEGANY from Conservation Alliance on Vimeo. The Conservation Alliance has released {worthWILD} ALLEGANY, the third video in the {worthWILD} series. The film tells the story of Adirondack Mountain Club's successful campaign to protect New York's Allegany State Park from oil drilling, and related habitat destruction, landscape alteration, and ground and surface water contamination. Unwilling…
Everest Textile Eco-Industrial Park Conservation Alliance member and textile manufacturer, Everest Textile Co., LTD, have devoted themselves to “Co-creating Triple-Bottom-Line.” They believe that caring about and helping others; and protecting our wild places is good for business. Everest is a global innovation-sustainability solution provider of textiles to the outdoor industry and they take the responsibility…
Photo: Brian Huntington The British Columbia government has confirmed a ban on oil and gas development in the Sacred Headwaters region of northwestern B.C; a huge success for Conservation Alliance grantee Skeena Watershed Conservation Coalition. "There are no words to even describe how we're feeling about this right now," Shannon McPhail, the executive director of…
At CLIF Bar, a spirit of adventure and love for the outdoors inspires a commitment to Protect the Places We Play; climate change is the biggest threat to these places. CLIF Bar challenges themselves, their partners and their consumers to be a part of the efforts needed to restore our planet for future…
Photo: Ben Knight On October 26, 2011, at 12pm in the afternoon, the Condit Dam came down. The White Salmon River, in Washington State, was free to flow for the first time in 100 years. On November 11, 2012, just over one year later, the first organized float down the White Salmon River took place….
In just over two generations, 280 of the 300 miles of southern California's once unspoiled coastline have been lost to development, FOREVER. Only 20 miles of coastline remain undeveloped and unprotected — for every generation that follows us. Twenty men, for twenty years, for twenty miles… This is the story of the…
A note from John Sterling, Executive Director. Photo: William Thompson At a meeting earlier this year, The Conservation Alliance board and staff learned from a pollster that roughly 75 percent of voters in the Intermountain West support stronger protections for public lands and open space. In the wake of the 2012 elections, it is tempting…
