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…
We supported the Adirondack Council’s Upper Hudson Woodlands Campaign to ensure the State of New York purchases a conservation easement covering 92,000 acres of land in the Adirondacks and develops a recreation plan that focuses on human-powered activities and public access. The Council reports that the state completed the purchase in November.
The Conservation Alliance funded Trust for Public Land’s Campaign for the Northern Green Mountains to permanently protect 6,700 acres of Vermont’s Northern Green Mountains including several miles of the Long Trail and other hiking and skiing paths. 5,727 acres of that goal, the Eden Forest, received protection in November. The remaining acreage, the 1022-acre Canada…
The Conservation Alliance was one of the lead funders of Washington Climbers Coalition’s Index Lower Town Wall Acquisition Campaign to purchase the Index Lower Town Wall a popular climbing crag in Washington State. WCC completed the acquisition in August 2010 and transferred the property to Washington State Parks.
Our support of American Whitewater’s Dillsboro Dam Removal Project lead to a comprehensive settlement agreement with Duke Energy calling for the removal of the Dillsboro Dam and subsequent watershed enhancements including enhanced flow releases, public river access areas, parks, trails and land conservation. After nearly a decade of negotiations, the Dillsboro Dam on the Tuckasegee…
Cascade Land Conservancy used Conservation Alliance funding to succeed in its efforts to protect 480 acres of private land within the boundaries of the Wild Sky Wilderness in Washington State. CLC acquired the Upper and Lower Wallace properties, and has transferred them to the US Forest Service to be managed as part of the Wilderness…
With support from The Conservation Alliance, CRAG Vermont has been successful in their Upper West Bolton Cliff Preservation Project, permanently preserving public access to this cliff near Burlington, Vermont for recreational activities including hiking and climbing.
WaterWatch of Oregon succeeded in its effort to remove Savage Rapids Dam on Oregon’s Rogue River. With the removal, the Rogue now runs free for 143 miles. The Rogue is famous for its whitewater paddling and fishing.
Central Oregon LandWatch succeeded in its campaign to convince the Oregon legislature to designate the entire Metolius River basin an Area of Critical Statewide Concern. The designation halted two proposed destination resorts that would have significantly diminished the natural qualities of this Central Oregon watershed.
