WaterWatch protects and restores natural stream flows in Oregon’s rivers. We funded the group’s Free the Rogue Campaign which seeks to remove Savage Rapids Dam and other barriers that, once removed, will allow fish passage and river recreation on Oregon’s Rogue River.
The Conservation Alliance Breakfast at the upcoming Outdoor Retailer Show will feature guest speaker Dr. John Francis, an inspiring speaker and renowned expert on oil spill prevention. Dr. Francis is known the world over as the Planetwalker. In 1971, he witnessed an oil spill in San Francisco Bay. The effects of the spill compelled Francis…
The Conservation Alliance sent checks totaling $400,000 to 17 organizations working to protect wild places throughout North America. The donations marked the Alliance’s final disbursal of funding for 2007, and represent the largest single funding round in the organization’s history. The Alliance has invested $800,000 in conservation projects in 2007, and this round brings total…
Hybrid.Pedal, a bike tour organized by The Conservation Alliance and KEEN, Inc., is raising awareness about conservation projects as is follows a route from Portland, OR to Salt Lake City. The tour will end in Salt Lake on Tuesday, August 7 with a celebration of Utah Wilderness at the downtown Gallivan Center. The Hybrid.Pedal route…
Conservation Alliance Executive Director John Sterling testified at a Senate hearing today in support of legislation that would protect wilderness and wild rivers on Oregon’s iconic Mount Hood. The Lewis and Clark Mount Hood Wilderness Act, introduced by Oregon Senators Ron Wyden and Gordon Smith, would designate 128,000 acres of land on the Mount Hood…
Oregon’s Rogue River is one of the premiere whitewater paddling destinations in the West. KS Wild is an advocate for at-risk wildlife and forests in the Klamath and Rogue River watersheds of northwest California and southwest Oregon. Our grant supports the group’s Wild Rogue Campaign to protect 103 miles of river and 58,000 acres of…
Adding to a string of conservation success stories this year, Conservation Alliance grantees secured permanent protection for 76,000 acres of federal land in New Hampshire and Vermont. This victory is the fifth significant accomplishment for Alliance grantees in 2006. President Bush signed today the New England Wilderness Act. The bill protects 42,000 acres in Vermont’s…
The Conservation Alliance sent checks totaling $250,000 to ten organizations working to protect wild places throughout North America. The donations marked the Alliance’s final disbursal of funding for 2006, and brought the year’s contributions to a new high of $530,000. By a vote of the group’s 120 member companies, The Conservation Alliance made donations to…
Skyline Forest is a 33,000-acre privately-owned forest adjacent to the Three Sisters, the Cascade mountain backdrop for the city of Bend, Oregon. The Deschutes Basin Land Trust is working to acquire Skyline Forest as part of a larger transaction that could protect 300,000 acres of private commercial timberland that is at risk of conversion to…
