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Washington Conservation Corps (WCC)
From the site: “The Washington Conservation Corps (WCC) is your opportunity to gain hands-on experience in the environmental field. The WCC works year-round to protect and enhance Washington’s natural resources. By becoming a WCC Member, you will work with like-minded people making a difference.”
Organization Type: Government
Website
Contact e-mail
Telephone
(360) 407-6946
Address
300 Desmond Drive, Lacey, WA 98503
Washington Natural Resources Conservation Service
Description:
With the mission of “Helping People Help the Land,” the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) provides products and services that enable people to be good stewards of the Nation’s soil, water, and related natural resources on non-Federal lands. With our help, people are better able to conserve, maintain, or improve their natural resources. As a result of our technical and financial assistance, land managers and communities take a comprehensive approach to the use and protection of natural resources in rural, suburban, urban, and developing areas.
Since the 1930’s, NRCS has worked with conservation districts and others throughout the U.S. to help landowners, as well as Federal, State, Tribal, and local governments and community groups. NRCS has six mission goals: high quality, productive soils; clean and abundant water; healthy plant and animal communities; clean air; an adequate energy supply; and working farms and ranch lands. To achieve these goals, the Agency implements these strategies:
• Cooperative conservation: seeking and promoting cooperative efforts to achieve conservation goals.
• Watershed approach: providing information and assistance to encourage and enable locally-led, watershed-scale conservation.
• Market-based approach: facilitating the growth of market-based opportunities that encourage the private sector to invest in conservation on private lands.
In Washington:
Spokane, WA. (Feb. 14, 2013) — Private landowners and tribes working to increase crop residues, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and improve soil health on their farm, may apply for conservation financial and technical assistance, USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) announced today.
SPOKANE, Wash. (Feb. 6, 2013) – Today, USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) announced they are seeking project proposals for the Pacific Salmon Habitat Improvement Partnership (PSHIP) to assist with restoration of habitat and improve water quality for salmon in the Puget Sound. NRCS will work with federal, state, and local governments, tribes, and non-governmental organizations to identify willing landowners on working lands.
SPOKANE, Wash. (Feb. 6, 2013) – March 15 is the second application cut-off date for the Farm and Ranchland Protection Program (FRPP), USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) announced today. Since 1996, FRPP in Washington State has provided over $15 million in Federal funds combined with roughly $18 million from private and public sources for a total of $33 million to preserve over 9800 acres of rich farmland on 96 parcels
For more information on these projects, click on the links.
Washington NRCS, Olympia Chapter
Organization Type: Government Agency
Website
Telephone
(360) 704-7740
Address
1835 BLACK LAKE BLVD SW STE B
OLYMPIA, WA 98512-5715
Ada County Highway District Commuteride
Mission:
Commuteride is a carpooling, vanpooling, or “ridematching” service within the Ada County of Idaho. It also promotes biking and walking by providing Bike Lane Maps and incentives of biking and walking.
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Telephone
(208) 345-7665
Address
3775 Adams St.
Garden City, Idaho 83714
USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service
Description:
NRCS offers voluntary programs to eligible landowners and agricultural producers to provide financial and technical assistance to help manage natural resources in a sustainable manner. Through these programs the agency approves contracts to provide financial assistance to help plan and implement conservation practices that address natural resource concerns or opportunities to help save energy, improve soil, water, plant, air, animal and related resources on agricultural lands and non-industrial private forest land.
Financial Assistance Programs:
- The Agricultural Management Assistance(AMA) provides financial and technical assistance to agricultural producers to voluntarily address issues such as water management, water quality, and erosion control by incorporating conservation into their farming operations.
- The Agricultural Water Enhancement Program (AWEP) is a voluntary conservation initiative that provides financial and technical assistance to agricultural producers to implement agricultural water enhancement activities on agricultural land to conserve surface and ground water and improve water quality.
- Conservation Innovation Grants (CIG) is a voluntary program intended to stimulate the development and adoption of innovative conservation approaches and technologies while leveraging Federal investment in environmental enhancement and protection, in conjunction with agricultural production.
- The Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) is a voluntary program that provides financial and technical assistance to agricultural producers through contracts up to a maximum term of ten years in length.
- The Wildlife Habitat Incentive Program(WHIP) is a voluntary program for conservation-minded landowners who want to develop and improve wildlife habitat on agricultural land, nonindustrial private forest land, and Indian land.
Organization Type: Government Agency
Website
Telephone
(509) 323-2900
Address
316 W. Boone Ave., Suite 450
Spokane, WA 99201-2348
Tribal Climate Change Project
The Tribal Climate Change Project is a collaborative project between the University of Oregon Environmental Studies Program and the USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station. The project focuses on understanding needs and opportunities for tribes in addressing climate change, examining the government-to-government relationship in a climate context and exploring the role of traditional knowledge in climate change studies, assessments and plans.
This project is part of the USDA Forest Service 2010 Coordinated Approach to Tribal Climate Change Research. Other Forest Service Research Stations engaged in this type of research include the Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station and the Forest Service Northern Research Station.
Organization Type: Government Agency
Telephone
(541) 346-5777
Puget Sound Clean Air Agency
The official website states that the “PSCAA is special-purpose, regional agency chartered by state law in 1967 (RCW 70.94). While we work in partnership with the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Washington State Department of Ecology, we are a separate organization. Our jurisdiction covers King, Kitsap, Pierce and Snohomish counties, spans 6,300 square miles and is home to more than 3.5 million people — over half the state’s population.”
Mission Statement: We work together to clean the air we breathe and protect our climate through education, incentives and enforcement.
Strategies include:
- adopting and enforcing air quality regulations;
- sponsoring voluntary initiatives; and
- educating people and businesses about clean-air and climate-friendly choices they can make
“We also have certain mandates that are spelled out by the federal Clean Air Act and the Washington Clean Air Act. These include activities such as monitoring for air pollution throughout our region and regulating businesses that have the potential to cause air pollution.”
Organization Type: Government agency
Website
Contact e-mail
Telephone
(206) 343-8800
Address
1904 Third Avenue - Suite 105, Seattle, WA 98101
Washington State Department of Ecology
The Department of Ecology works in all areas of the environment to protect and manage Washington’s natural resources. Their work includes education in environmental issues, working with different groups on all kind of different issues, including climate change.
Analysis of Department of Ecology Activities:
WA Department of Ecology
Organization Type: Government Agency
Website
Contact e-mail
Telephone
(360) 407-6300
Address
300 Desmond Dr SE, Lacey, WA