Conservation Alliance members, Marmot Mountain, LLC and The Grassroots Outdoor Alliance, a buying group of nearly 36 independent specialty retailers, teamed up in October to raise $5,270 for the Conservation Alliance. GOA and Marmot raised the funds through the sale of Marmot PreCip™ jackets and pants sold in 22 participating GOA stores. For each purchase…
On September 13th, 2011, more than 100 volunteers from Eastern Mountain Sports, Briggs & Riley Travelware, EarthTec, NEMO Equipment, Jetboil, and Polartec came out to support the East Coast Backyard Collective. This event was organized in conjuction with Eastern Mountain Sports' annual Anniversary Clean Up Day. This great group of volunteers partnered with several local…
Projects funded by The Conservation Alliance took an important step forward yesterday when the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee approved five bills to protect more than 125,000 acres of Wilderness. Among the bills were three initiatives that would protect Wilderness in Washington, Oregon, and Tennessee, as follows: The Alpine Lakes Wilderness Additions and Pratt…
Save the Date! The Conservation Alliance Breakfast Friday, January 20, 2012 To the Arctic A multimedia presentation by: Wildlife Photographer Florian Schulz Friday, January 20, 2012, 7-9 AM The Marriott, Salons F-I, Salt Lake City Click here for more details and watch the video below for a sneak peak of To the Arctic…
Last Wednesday, the Condit Dam, on the White Salmon River in southeastern Washington, was breached. For more than 98 years, this 125-foot dam choked off passage to salmon and created a reservoir. Work to remove this dam began 20 years ago. In 1992, The Conservation Alliance provided funding to American Whitewater to start the process….
Conservation Alliance members may recall that in 2006, our funding helped Montana Wilderness Association secure a permanent prohibition on new oil and gas development on 300,000 acres of public land on Montana's Rocky Mountain Front. We received some good news today from Brian Sybert, Executive Director of MWA. "I wanted to share with you…
Today, at 12pm PST, the Condit Dam, located on the White Salmon River, in Washington State, was breached. Crews blasted a tunnel into the base of Condit Dam, effectively freeing the White Salmon for the first time in a century. This is a landmark event and is reason to celebrate! Visit White Salmon Restored and…
A federal appeals court today upheld the Clinton-era Roadless Rule, which prohibits roads on nearly 60 million acres Forest Service land throughout the US. This ruling marks a significant — and possibly the final — milestone in the decade-long battle to defend the rule. The Roadless Rule came out of the most extensive public…
Ads for the Earth Auction October 17-21, 2011 http://auctions.readysetauction.com/conservationalliance Each of the ten publications below has donated ONE FULL-PAGE or HALF-PAGE, FULL-COLOR AD to The Conservation Alliance. We will offer these ad pages in an online auction. Bidding starts at 30 percent of full value. All proceeds will support our efforts to protect North…
ARCTIC NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE The Arctic is all around us. Every year, birds that begin their lives on the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge journey to all 50 states and across six continents, before heading back to the Arctic, where the cycle of life begins again. The Arctic is the origin of…
