Twice over the past two weeks, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell has said publicly that if Congress continues to drag its feet on moving broadly-supported legislation to protect wild places on our federal lands, President Obama will step in and designate these areas as national monuments. "If Congress doesn't step up to act, then the President…
Senator Mark Udall (D-CO) is working to protect Colorado's Central Mountains, and it's important that we make our voices heard and show our support of this proposal. The Holy Cross, Tenmile Range and Maroon Bells are the iconic peaks of Colorado's Rocky Mountains. Udall's Central Mountains Outdoor Heritage Act would protect then and nearly 240,000…
Conservation Alliance Grantee, Winter Wildlands Alliance, celebrated the Final Yellowstone Winter Visitation Plan from the National Park Service, governing snowmobile and snowcoach use in Yellowstone Park. The Plan provides protections for this pristine winter refuge, limits noise and emissions, and provides for a cleaner, quieter experience for skiers and snowshoers. Beginning in winter 2014-15, this…
The Conservation Alliance has funded work by Earthjustice and Southern Utah Wilderness Association in their efforts to protect roughly three million acres of spectacular, wilderness-quality public lands in Utah's red rock country from destructive oil and gas drilling and off-road vehicle use. This week, the United States District Court for the District of Utah struck…
Conservation Alliance Grantee, Rivers Without Borders, in conjunction with The University of Victoria's Environmental Law Centre, unveiled a collaborative website this week, Wild Border Watersheds. This website aims to raise awareness of the extraordinary conservation values of the transboundary watersheds shared by British Columbia and Alaska, and to highlight the growing development pressures on those…
Sacred Headwaters A presentation by Wade Davis Thursday January 23, 2014, 7AM-9AM The Marriott Downtown, Salons F-I Salt Lake City, UT Click here for details
In August, nearly two hundred Conservation Alliance member company representatives and friends gathered in Portland's Wallace Park for the Portland Backyard Collective, an event that brought together member company employees and local grantees for a day of environmental action. We welcomed friends from Columbia Sportswear, Yakima, Icebreaker, Merrell, KEEN, REI, Nau, Horny Toad and BrandLive to split into volunteer teams, which then spread…
In October 2013, The Conservation Alliance invested $700,000 in grassroots conservation organizations. Each grant went to a project working to secure permanent protection for a specific threatened wild place. We direct organizations to use our funding over the course of a 12-month period. At the end of the grant period, we ask each group for…
I took away some unexpected encouragement from the two-week federal government shutdown that just ended. Headlines from the very first day of the shutdown focused on how frustrated people were to be barred from our National Parks, Wilderness areas, and other federal lands. I didn't hear near as much about Americans missing other government services….
Western Coast Environmental Law used our funding to assist the Gitanyow Hereditary Chiefs in drafting a protection plan for the Nass River watershed. As a result, the BC government created the Hanna-Tintina Conservancy, a 58,568-acre protected area that includes spawning habitat for the majority of the Nass River sockeye salmon, timbered hillsides, alpine slopes, riparian…
