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
(360) 407-6946
The Nature Conservancy’s Washington Conservation Science Program works with public and private agencies and institutions and on ecological monitoring, research, conservation planning, and adaptive management to improve conservation.
The Nature Conservancy works on many projects in Washington. On the Washington coast they promote sustainable fisheries, work with conserving the ocean habitat, and perserving forest and rivers. On the Puget Sound they started Farming for Wildlife. Farming for Wildlife is a project to create a sustainable landscape for a agricultural community to thrive in. In Eastern Washington science projects are enacted that conserve critical forests, sage lands and waters that support life.
The Nature Conservancy has other projects in Washington that are not location based. Projects that model of the impact of climate change on Washington’s biodiversity are being researched, along with Collins Projects and conservation planning. The Collins Project is promoting choice stewardship within our agricultural community. Conservation of biodiversity is attained by identifying critical lands and waters in Washington and working to conserve those areas.
Organization Type: Non-profit Orginization
(206) 343-4345
The Willamette Riverkeeper is an organization that is dedicated solely to the protection and restoration of the Willamette River.
There are 165 other rivers, bays, inlets and waterbodies united with the Willamette Riverkeeper under the Waterkeeper Alliance. Their strategies include, advocacy, monitoring, education and restoration.
Organization Type: Not-for-Profit
(503) 223-6418
Mission statement: To ensure that parks, regional trail systems, greenways and greenspaces are integrated with the built environment in the Portland-Vancouver metropolitan region; and to promote urban greenspace efforts nationally and internationally.
Motto: “In Livable Cities is Preservation of the wild.”
According to the webpage this motto was “chosen as a correlary to Henry David Thoreau’s aphorism, In Wildness is the Preservation of the Wild.”
The Group’s focus is on preserving and introducing nature and wilderness into urban areas.
Organization Type: Non-Governmental Organization
(503) 319-7155
According to the Surfrider Foundation webpage, their mission “is the protection and enjoyment of oceans, waves and beaches through a powerful activist network.”
Through educational, campaign and program initiatives, the many chapters of the Surfrider Foundation operate to protect our oceans waves and beaches.
Surfrider Foundation’s South Sound Chapter includes Tacoma, Gig Harbor and the southern Puget Sound region.
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Mission: “The Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust leads and inspires action to conserve and enhance the landscape from Seattle across the Cascade Mountains to Central Washington, ensuring a long-term balance between people and nature.”
Vision: “An iconic 1.5 million-acre landscape that conserves a healthy and sustainable relationship between land and people by balancing built and natural environments. A landscape providing places for nature and wildlife, for outdoor recreation and education, for working forests and local agricultural production, while embracing vibrant urban areas with strong economies. A landscape supported by a broad cross-section of society, working together as an effective coalition to preserve this heritage for future generations.”
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(206) 382-5565
According to the Surfrider Foundation webpage, their mission “is the protection and enjoyment of oceans, waves and beaches through a powerful activist network.”
Through educational, campaign and program initiatives, the many chapters of the Surfrider Foundation operate to protect our oceans waves and beaches.
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According to the Surfrider Foundation webpage, their mission “is the protection and enjoyment of oceans, waves and beaches through a powerful activist network.”
Through educational, campaign and program initiatives, the many chapters of the Surfrider Foundation operate to protect our oceans waves and beaches.
For updates on the Olympic Peninsula Chapter (OPC) visit their blog.
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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.
Organization Type: Government Agency
(360) 704-7740
Our Children’s Trust is a nonprofit based in Oregon.
It’s purpose, as stated on their website, is “to protect earth’s natural systems for current and future generations. We are here to empower and support youth as they stand up for their lawful inheritance: a healthy planet. We are mothers, fathers, grandparents, aunts, uncles, teachers. We are adults, part of the ruling generation, and we care about the future of our children–and their children’s children.”
We stand on the brink of human-induced climate catastrophe. We will one day have to answer to our children and grandchildren for the choices we make at this pivotal moment.
Organization Type: Not-For-Profit Organization
(541) 375-0158