We supported New York-New Jersey Trail Conference’s Southern Gunks Greenway Campaign to purchase and transfer parcels of land to New York State resulting in the elimination of the remaining unprotected gaps in the Southern Gunks Greenway. The Trail Conference reports that they have protected two parcels totaling 514 acres that will improve recreation opportunities in…
We supported the Earthjustice’s Saving Utah’s Redrock Country Campaign to protect roughly three million acres of wilderness-quality public lands in Utah’s Red Rock Country from the imminent threat of oil and gas drilling and off-road vehicle use, opening the opportunity to obtain permanent federal protection for these wildlands. Earthjustice prevailed in an Appeals Court case…
We funded ONDA’s John Day Wilderness Campaign to secure wilderness protection for 17,000 acres of public land along the lower John Day River by 2012, an additional 60,000 acres of public land by 2014, and secure a Wild and Scenic River recommendation for 30 miles of river in the John Day Basin in 2012. ONDA…
The Conservation Alliance supported the Adirondack Council’s Upper Hudson Woodlands Campaign to ensure the protection of 200,000 acres of land in the Adirondacks; 90,000 acres of which was protected in 2011. In August 2012, New York State purchased 69,000 additional acres of the Upper Hudson River watershed, providing permanent protection for its mountains, ponds, lakes,…
Conservation Alliance funding supported The Campaign to Save Roan Plateau for their efforts to secure lasting protection for the Roan Plateau’s undeveloped public lands from oil & gas drilling. In June of 2012, a federal judge ruled failure of the BLM to consider environmental impacts from the opening the top of the Roan Plateau to…
The Conservation Alliance funded American River Conservancy’s Gold Hill Ranch Campaign to permanently protect the 272-acre Gold Hill Ranch, which includes 1.5 miles of frontage along the American River in California. ARC reports that they completed the acquisition, and will now manage the property for habitat and public access.
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 areas that are protected from all extractive activities. In 2012, the State of Oregon designated three additional…
The Grand Canyon Trust used Conservation Alliance funding to play a lead role in the successful effort to convince the Interior Department to impose a 20-year ban on new uranium mining claims on one million acres of land surrounding Grand Canyon National Park. The ban provides long-term protection for one of the crown jewels of…
In 2008, The Conservation Alliance awarded American Whitewater a grant to launch American Whitewater’s Colorado River Stewardship Program to protect and restore water flows in streams throughout Colorado. On November 30th, 2011 Instream-Flow water rights on 70 miles of the Upper Colorado that protect streamflows critical to ecosystem health were filed, ensuring that the Colorado…
Conservation Alliance grantee, Appalachian Voices, was instrumental in convincing the EPA to veto the Spruce Mine permit. By vetoing the permit, 2,300 acres and 6 miles of headwater streams surrounding the proposed mine were permanently protected. Some of America’s most diverse forests and rivers have been protected from the devastating practice of mountaintop removal mining with…
