We supported Our Ocean’s Oregon Marine Heritage Campaign to designate and implement Oregon’s first-ever, coast-wide network of at least six ecologically significant marine reserves and protected areas. These are areas within Oregon’s Territorial Sea or adjacent rocky intertidal area that are protected from all extractive activities. In 2011, the State of Oregon designated the first…
With support from The Conservation Alliance, the Sierra Club of BC worked with partners to secure a ban on mining and oil and gas development on 400,000 acres of the province’s Flathead River Valley. The protections came when the BC government passed the Flathead Watershed Conservation Act in November 2011. The Flathead spans the US/Canada…
Back in 1993, The Conservation Alliance funded American Whitewater for its campaign to implement a plan to improve recreational access to the nation’s whitewater rivers and streams. A major component of that effort was to restore the White Salmon River in Washington State by removing the Condit Dam. Nearly 20 years later, this project succeeded…
The Conservation Alliance supported Western Rivers Conservancy’s John Day River Project to permanently protect more than 19,000 acres along 18 miles of Oregon’s John Day River. WRC purchased the property in 2008. Our funding supported their efforts to transfer 16,114 acres of this land to Oregon State Parks. This transfer is complete and the grand opening…
We supported Trust for Public Land’s Campaign to Conserve the Upper Connecticut River to protect the Upper Connecticut River Watershed of Vermont and New Hampshire and preserve its forests, streams, and muscle-powered recreation opportunities. The campaign focused on three separate conservation projects covering 2,341 acres: the Deerfield River, Brushwood Forest, and Gardner Mountain projects. The…
In 2008, The Conservation Alliance funded Northern Alaska Environmental Center’s Yukon Flats Wildlife Refuge Campaign to protect three critical areas in Alaska’s Yukon from oil development. In 2010, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service formally halted the Yukon Flats Wildlife Refuge land trade and nullified the proposed exchange agreement that would have propelled oil drilling…
Our support of Wild Earth Guardians’ Wild Forest, Wild Waters Campaign has lead to the designation of “Outstanding Waters” for more than 700 miles of 199 perennial rivers and streams, 29 lakes, and approximately 6,000 acres of wetlands in New Mexico under the Clean Water Act. Activities that would contaminate these 1.4 million acres of…
Thanks in part to our funding, Northeast Wilderness Trust has completed its Piscataquis Preserve Project to conserve 1,200 acres of habitat in Atkinson, Maine. As a result of this land acquisition, 1,200 acres of protected land will be added to an existing matrix of 20,000 acres already in conservation ownership.
Our funding supported Adirondack Mountain Club’s Save Alleghany State Park Campaign to protect Alleghany State Park from proposed hydro-fracking mining. ADK reports the New York Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation has designated 85 percent of the 65,000-acre park as Park Preservation Area, meaning it will be maintained in a near-wilderness state. This protection…
Our funding supported WaterWatch’s Free the Rogue Campaign to complete the removal of three major dams on the Rogue River, freeing the lower 157 miles from recreational and fish passage barriers, boosting salmon and steelhead runs by an estimated 114,000 fish and finalizing the largest instream transfer of water in Oregon’s history. The removal of…
