The Conservation Alliance (TCA) is excited to announce the recipients of its latest round of grants. As part of the Winter 2024 cycle, $510,000 in grants were awarded to 12 organizations working to protect outdoor spaces and wild places throughout North America. Three organizations received an additional $45,000 in discretionary grants and TCA awarded one…
The Winchester, Murphy, and Charley dams are highly ranked privately owned fish passage priorities in Oregon. None provide hydropower, flood control, or other public benefits. These dams harm multiple runs of migratory and resident fish, including spring and fall chinook salmon, Endangered Species Act listed coho salmon, steelhead, cutthroat trout, Pacific Lamprey, and suckers. The…
Covering 5.5 million acres, the three National Forests of Eastern Oregon’s Blue Mountains – the Malheur, Umatilla, and Wallowa-Whitman, have been grouped together for a comprehensive revision process. The Blue Mountains are increasingly seen as an essential connectivity corridor as the only forested corridor in the United States between the Rockies and the Cascades. The…
Known as Bend and Sister’s backyard, Skyline Forest is a massive, intact, and beloved landscape encompassing 33,000-acres of privately owned forest land. It is surrounded by state and federal lands. Climate-fueled drought and wildfire make protecting and proactively managing landscapes like Skyline critical. Its green Cascade foothills are critical habitat for iconic migratory species like…
The Conservation Alliance (TCA), a coalition of like-minded member companies advocating for the protection of wild places and outdoor spaces, announces the recipients of its 2023 Confluence Grant Program – Alabama River Diversity Network, Battery Island Drive Neighborhood Association, People of Red Mountain, and Northern Chumash Tribal Council. The Confluence Grant Program, designed to support…
People of Red Mountain (Atsa Koodakuh wyh Nuwu) is an Indigenous-led organization representing Paiute, Shoshone, and Bannock people of Nevada, Oregon, and Idaho. The group’s values include protecting Indigenous knowledge and restoring the original stewards to the land. The members continue to protect ancestral homelands, religion, and culture against threats that include harmful, extractive practices…
After decades of advocacy from Klamath River Indigenous peoples, community members, conservationists, and fishermen, the smallest of four dams – Copco 2 – has been removed from the Klamath River. This effort, along the border of Oregon and California is part of the largest dam removal and river restoration project in U.S. history, led by…
The Conservation Alliance (TCA) is excited to present the recipients of its Summer 2023 Grants. In this cycle, $650,000 in grants were dispersed to 15 organizations working to protect outdoor spaces and wild places throughout North America.
For three weeks in August 2009, I backpacked in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. I witnessed caribou migrating past my tent early in the morning, found challenges crossing rivers and rocky boulder fields, and returned with vivid memories of this magical place. This month, I was delighted to see the Biden-Harris administration announce significant steps…
In August 2023, Oregon Desert Land Trust (ODLT) completed their purchase of the 16,645 acre Trout Creek Ranch in the Pueblo and Trout Creek Mountains, one of the largest conservation projects in Oregon that also includes 500,000 acres of grazing permits. The Land Trust will own the property three years ahead of schedule, allowing them…
I recently spent a week near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northeastern Minnesota. This landscape is part of a priority campaign TCA has supported for several years, which received important protections earlier this year. Thanks to your membership and critical work on the ground, mineral withdrawals were banned from the watershed for the…
The Nestwood Forest spans Ross Mountain and Howard Canyon, just east of Corbett, Oregon, and is only half an hour’s drive from the Portland-Vancouver metro area. Until recently, this was the largest privately owned forest in the county and was at risk of being divided and developed. Over the last 20 years, Columbia Land Trust…
In June, 2023, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released a new plan to protect over 400,000 acres of public lands in the Owyhee Canyonlands in Southeastern Oregon. The proposed Southeastern Oregon Resource Management Plan Amendment is a guide for the management, maintenance, and enhancement of lands with wilderness characteristics for at least the next…
Winter Park, CO (May 22, 2023) – The Conservation Alliance (TCA) announces four recipients of the organization’s 2023 Outstanding Partnership Awards: Alpacka Raft, Kahtoola, Northwest Rafting Company and REI Co-Op. The annual award recognizes TCA member companies whose efforts directly support grantee organizations working to protect wild places throughout North America. “Realizing that many of…
We are proud to share that so far in 2023 we have added many new businesses to our already impressive roster of member companies. What’s even more exciting is that as we continue to grow, we are diversifying our industry representation. Among our new members we have an insurance brokerage company, marketing firms, and a…
The Conservation Alliance (TCA) is excited to present the recipients of its Winter 2023 Grants. In this cycle, $650,000 in grants were dispersed to 17 organizations working to protect outdoor spaces and wild places throughout North America.
Create a 3,111-acre demonstration forest owned by Oregon State University that will advance climate-smart forestry and provide public access to 24 miles of forested trails within the Portland Metropolitan Area.
Remove the Winchester, Pomeroy and Murphy dams from Oregon’s North Umpqua, Illinois and Applegate rivers to provide unimpeded access for salmon, steelhead and other fish to over 360 miles of high quality spawning and rearing habitat upstream, help restore world-class steelhead and salmon runs in the North Umpqua and Rogue river basins, and remove significant…
Protect 33,000 acres of intact forestland for critical wildlife habitat, close-to-town outdoor access, world-class recreation opportunities, regional water quality, and improved fire safety that is paramount to the well-being of Central Oregon communities.
The Conservation Alliance (TCA) is moving into 2023 with energy and renewed commitment to conserve wild places and outdoor spaces, leveraging our business membership in support of community-led conservation. We reflected on our progress to our justice, equity, diversity and inclusion commitments in 2022 and are using the learnings to shape our priorities for the…
