Obama taps REIs Sally Jewell for Interior Secretary

Photo: REI We were thrilled to learn today that President Obama has nominated REI CEO Sally Jewell to be his next Interior Secretary. Assuming she is confirmed by the Senate, Sally will oversee the Department of the Interior, which manages all Park Service, BLM, and US Fish and Wildlife Service lands, totaling 507 million acres…

SkiLink Is Not The Answer

  Guest post by Mark Menlove, Winter Wildland Alliance, Executive Director As a former president of the Utah Ski Association and its marketing company, Ski Utah, my allegiance to Utah skiing and to the Wasatch Mountains runs deep. That allegiance compels me to write in firm opposition to a legislative proposal to force the sale…

KEEPING IT WILD

KEEN brought the Northern Lights to the Outdoor Retailer Tradeshow in Salt Lake City last week. How are you keeping it wild in your community?

2012 – A Year in Review

  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:…

Happy New Year: Victory Announcement

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…

Favorites on Friday: Downeast Lakes Land Trust Celebrates!

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

{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…

Breaking News: Oil, gas development banned in B.C’s Sacred Headwaters

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…

Everest Textile: The Triple Bottom Line

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…