With perfect working temperatures and storm clouds hovering, over 150 volunteers from Patagonia, Horny Toad, Deckers, Vapur, REI and Channel Islands Outfitters removed invasive species replacing them with 600 native plants between two sites along the Atascadero and Cieneguitas creeks in the San Marcos Foothills Preserve. There were cultivators, hoes and gloved hands working side by side…
Save Our Wild Salmon is a nationwide coalition of conservation organizations, commercial and sports fishing associations, businesses, river groups, and taxpayer advocates working collectively to restore self-sustaining, abundant, and harvestable populations of wild salmon and steelhead to rivers, streams and oceans of the Pacific Salmon states. This week, for the seventh straight year, comprehensive spring…
Photo: Lauren Hierl There are few places in this country more pristine, vast and wild than Arctic Alaska. From the snowcapped peaks of the Brooks Range, to the vast tundra of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge's Coastal Plain – crucial habitat for polar bears, caribou, millions of birds and more – America's Arctic is one…
Photo: Gareth Martins Gareth Martins, Director of Marketing for Osprey Packs and Conservation Alliance board member, joined The Conservation Alliance in Washington, DC a few weeks ago, carrying a positive of how the outdoor recreational economy has remained strong and healthy through challenging economic times. Gareth has traveled to Washington, DC a number of times…
Photo:Andrea Manning Ted Manning, a Conservation Alliance board member and Executive Vice President of Eastern Mountain Sports, joined The Conservation Alliance in Washington, DC a few weeks ago, carrying a message of how conservation is as good for business as it is for the environment. This was Ted's first time to Washington, DC in an…
Photo: Brian Hotz Conservation Alliance grantee, Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests, reports they have executed a conservation easement deed on the 55-acre Royce Property, located on the flanks of Mt. Monadnock, North America's most popular hiking destination. Mt. Monadnock is in the backyard of Conservation Alliance Pinnacle Member Eastern Mountain Sports and…
Photo: Ray Bloxham The Conservation Alliance is excited to announce the results of the Winter 2012 Funding Cycle. This week we awarded $600,000 to 19 organizations across North American, including organizations in Mexico and Canada. In 2012, The Conservation Alliance plans to contribute $1.3 million to organizations working to permanently…
Photo Credit: Howie Garber, Wanderlust Images Save Our Canyons reported a huge success this week; the introduction of the Wasatch Wilderness and Watershed Protection Act into the House of Representatives by Congressman Matheson (D-UT). The Conservation Alliance has twice funded Save Our Canyons' Wasatch Wilderness Campaign and the introduction of this bill is reason to…
Photo: Doug Steakley In 2011, The Conservation Alliance provided funding to the California Wilderness Coalition in support of their efforts to permanently protect 21,000 acres on Beauty Mountain and the proposed Agua Tibia Wilderness, located in the Southern California Desert. The Beauty Mountain and Agua Tibia Wilderness Act would add over 7,796 acres to…
Board of Directors On Capital Hill The Conservation Alliance board and staff spent two days this week in Washington, DC. The trip included a full day of board education on which the board heard presentations about conservation policy, including Wilderness, National Monuments, Land and Water Conservation Fund, the American Arctic, and the prospects for conservation…
