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…
We supported the Appalachian Trail Conservancy’s White Rocks Acquisition Project to preserve 1,050 acres of open space and wildlife habitat. In 2011, ATC purchased and protected 840 acres, which will enhance the Appalachian Trail experience and provide protection to critical groundwater recharge areas.
The Conservation Alliance was one of the lead supporters of the Access Fund’s campaign to purchase and preserve access to Jailhouse Rock, a popular climbing crag near Sonora, California. This successful effort includes a long-term plan to manage the impacts of climbers at the area.
We supported the Adirondack Council’s Adirondack Park Additions Program; a campaign working to acquire and protect up to 200,000 acres of forested wilderness in New York’s Adirondack Park. 90,000 acres have been acquired and put into conservation protection. An additional 60,000 acres have been approved for protection and should be acquired by Summer 2012.
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…
