At the Summer OR Show, The Conservation Alliance held a "Post Card Signing" Campaign. We encouraged you to staple your business card to two postcards, one to be delivered to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, the other House Speaker John Boehner. The message was clear – WILDERNESS = JOBS: To: Senate Majority Leader…
In April of 2012, The Conservation Alliance awarded the New York – Jersey Trail Conference $35,000 toward their efforts to purchase and transfer land to the State of New York State resulting, in the elimination of the remaining unprotected gaps in the Southern Gunks Greenway. In just six months, we have already seen great results…
Photo: Florian Schulz It’s been an amazing fight. And, thanks to the efforts of Alaska Wilderness League and many others, oil companies have abandoned drilling for oil in America’s Arctic Ocean – at least until next year. Shell Oil announced, Monday, that it is drastically scaling back its oil drilling operation this year in…
Today, September 14th, is World Wide Recess Day! Bring Recess Back and take 10 minutes (or more) out of your day to get ouside and play! Need some hints for quick and easy RECESS IDEAS? Disc Golf, Hopscotch, Four-Square…….. Have fun and #take10!
Photo: Jerry and Marcy Monkman In April, The Conservation Alliance awarded The Trust for Public Land a grant for their work on the Campaign to Create the Barre Town Forest, a community forest in Vermont's Washington County. This campaign will completely transform a degraded industrial site into a vibrant natural landscape that will be…
Friendly faces from Mountain Equipment Co-Op, Arc’teryx, Icebreaker and Innate arrived at Heywood Park by foot, bike, carpool and public transportation for our first Canadian Backyard Collective on Wednesday, August 29th. There they were met with coffee, Clif bars and smiles from the Canadian Parks & Wilderness BC, (CPAWS BC) staff and team members. It…
The Conservation Alliance has just released Badlands, the first video of the worthWILD series, telling the story of a successful partnership between Conservation Alliance grantee, Oregon Natural Desert Association (ONDA), and Conservation Alliance member FootZone Bend. This documentary video shows how the independently-owned, Bend, Oregon shoe store, the FootZone, has made a big difference…
Our Boulder volunteers truly rocked at this year’s event! With over 100 participants from member businesses Osprey, SmartWool, Nite Ize, La Sportiva, IMBA, Outdoor Industry Association, Backpacker’s Pantry, American Recreation Company and our friends at Sea to Summit, we put McLeods, Pulaskis, and Bucket Brigades to work on the completion of a reroute project initiated…
Photo: Carl Heilman II The Conservation Alliance supported the Adirondack Council's Upper Hudson Woodlands Campaign to ensure the protection of 200,000 acres of land in the Adirondacks; 90,000 acres of which was protected in 2011. In August 2012, New York State purchased 69,000 additional acres of the Upper Hudson River watershed, providing permanent protection for…
Volunteers turned out in record numbers for the Portland Backyard Collective! Over 300 participants from Conservation Alliance business members Columbia, KEEN, Icebreaker, Merrell, REI, and The North Face worked together across seven sites on a variety of stewardship projects at Sellwood Park, Tryon Creek State Park, Willow Creek, Springwater Trail and Forest Park. Event partners…
