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…
Photo: David Nunuk Since 2007, The Conservation Alliance has contributed close to $100,000 to the Rivers Without Border's Taku Watershed Conservation Campaign; a campaign to secure a Critical Habitat designation for the Taku River watershed, keeping it wild and fully intact by preventing mining associated development activities. On March 12, 2012, the Taku River,…
This month, a team of world class climbers will embark on the 2012 Everest Expedition to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the first American ascent of Everest, via the difficult West Ridge route. The team, led by Conrad Anker, Conservation Alliance Board Member, The North Face Athlete, world renowned mountaineer, climber, and author, and…
Photo: Michael Alvarez We are excited to announce that Aron Ralston will be the featured speaker at The Conservation Alliance Breakfast at the August, 2012 Outdoor Retailer tradeshow. The Breakfast is Friday, August 3, 7-9 AM at The Marriott in Salt Lake City. Aron is an adventurer who inadvertently gained fame when he hiked…
Photo: Ben Nieves In 2010 and 2011, The Conservation Alliance funded Our Ocean's Oregon Marine Heritage Campaign to designate and implement Oregon's first-ever coast-wide network of six ecologically significant marine reserves and protected areas. These are areas within Oregon's Territorial Sea or adjacent rocky intertidal area and protected from all extractive activities. In late…
Photo: Florian Schulz Shell Oil has filed suit agains Conservation Alliance grantees Alaska Wilderness League and National Audubon Society and several other conservation organizations that have raised concerns about the oil company's plan to drill for oil in the Arctic Ocean this summer. The defendants are scratching their heads trying to understand the logic…
Photo: Glenn Randall Since 1912, the Colorado Mountain Club has been an unwavering advocate for the protection of Colorado's wild, remote, and quiet places. Last week, CMC's ten-year campaign for more Wilderness in central Colorado took a step toward victory when Senator Udall announced the Central Mountains Proposal. The Central Mountains proposal could encompass as…
Photo: Gary Miller On Tuesday, February 28th, the full flow of Whychus Creek, located just 9 miles north-east of Sisters, Oregon, was redirected to its historic channel through Camp Polk Meadow, for the first time in 47 years. The Deschutes Land Trust, a Conservation Alliance Grantee, has been working in collaboration with the Upper…
Republican Representative Elton Gallegly, who serves California's 24th Congressional District, introduced legislation on Wednesday that would protect many important wild places in the Los Padres National Forest in Santa Barbara and Ventura counties. This is first step toward securing Wilderness and Wild & Scenic designations for these areas, an effort led by Conservation Alliance Grantees…
