Category Archives: Sphere of Effect

Kootenai Environmental Alliance

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Mission statement:  To conserve, protect and restore the environment, with a particular emphasis on the Idaho Panhandle and the Coeur d’Alene basin.

On their website it says that the Kootenai Environmental Alliance (KEA), “is the oldest non-profit conservation organization in Idaho. Our conservation mission is unchanged since the organization’s founding in 1972. We are based in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho and work throughout North Idaho”.

KEA was founded by former Idaho State Senators Art Manley and Mary Lou Reed, as well as representatives from several local and regional sporting organizations and renowned environmental attorney Scott Reed.

Organization Type: Not-For-Profit Corporation

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(208) 667-9093

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Kootenai Environmental Alliance, PO Box 1598, Coeur d’Alene, ID 83816-1598

Idaho Smart Growth

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Idaho Smart Growth is a non-profit organization that educates and advocates smart growth in the local communities of Idaho. They educate Idaho citizens, build groups who support smart growth, implement statewide policies for smart growth, help and advise community leaders.

Their mission is to bring “people together to create great places to live.”

Idaho Smart Growth believes that “Smart Growth is defined around a list of ten principles” these principles give insight into their conservation practices:

  • Provide a variety of transportation choices.
  • Mix land use.
  • Create a range of housing opportunities and choices.
  • Create walkable neighborhoods.
  • Encourage community and stakeholder collaboration.
  • Foster distinctive, attractive communities with a strong sense of place.
  • Preserve open space, farmland, natural beauty, and critical environmental areas.
  • Strengthen and direct development towards existing areas.
  • Adopt compact building patterns and efficient infrastructure design
  • To learn more about the practices go to: http://www.idahosmartgrowth.org/index.php/resources/resource/best_practices/

Organization Type: Non-Profit

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(208) 333-8066

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P.O. Box 374 Boise, ID 83701

Washington Aggregates and Concrete Association

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From their website:  “Strives to work with all related state agencies to promote a positive and cooperative relationship while providing mutual education regarding agency objectives and balancing production, economies and promoting practicable and achievable compliance.”

The Washington Aggregates and Concrete Association has been around since 1959 and have always been taking an active role in their community and building from the ground up with green materials. Trying to set an example for others.

Organization Type: Green Technology

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(206) 878-1622

Address

22223 7th Avenue, South Des Moines, WA 98198

Northwest Environmental Advocates

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Mission statement:  To work through advocacy and education to protect and restore water and air quality, wetlands and wildlife habitat.

Northwest Environmental Advocates (NWEA) use strategies such as negotiation, litigation, education, community organizing, and advocacy.  This includes:

  • filing lawsuits to obtain program implementation and remedy egregious threats
  • advocating for funding, enforcement, and environmental results
  • working on advisory committees to build support for implementation
  • education and community organizing to ensure an informed and involved public

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(503) 295-0490

Address

P.O. Box 12187 Portland, OR 97212-0187

Engineered Compost Systems

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Engineered Compost System’s mission is to…

ECS is an engineering and manufacturing firm dedicated to providing appropriate compost design, technology, and on-going technical support to our composting clients… We design, build and test all of our products at our UL Listed manufacturing facility in Seattle, WA.
-From the About Us page of their website

Organization Type: For-Profit Corporation

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(206) 634-2625

Address

4211 24th Avenue West Seattle, WA 98199

Northwest National Resource Group

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Northwest National Resource Group promotes “the emergence of a sustainable, environmentally sound economy throughout the Pacific Northwest in which healthy ecosystems are fully integrated with the social, economic, and cultural systems of human society.” They focus on conservation and economic goals through market-based conservation tools. They try to understand the links between forestry, watershed health, water quality, habitat corridors and economic performance.

Their mission is to “use the marketplace to restore forests and local economies.”

They work on:

  • Supporting the growth of a profitable and sustainable timber industry in Washington state.
  • Advocating Forest Stewardship certification in the Northwest
  • Developing their Watershed Innovation program

Organization Type: Non-Profit

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(206) 971-3709

Address

1917 1st Ave, Level A, Suite 200 Seattle, WA 98101

Inland Northwest Land Trust

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The official website indicates that Inland Northwest Land Trust (INTL) is “a local, non-profit, non-political organization with over 450 members. Through easements, acquisitions, and by working with other conservation partners we have helped preserve 14,694 acres of wetlands, shorelines, farmlands, and forests in eastern Washington and northern Idaho for present and future generations.”

Mission Statement:  Inland Northwest Land Trust protects the regions natural lands, waters and working farms and forests for the benefit of wildlife, our community and future generations.

INTL works with private landowners and other partners to protect this region’s quality of life. Their focus is on the conservation of natural open spaces to preserve wildlife, clean air and water, and scenic beauty.

Organization Type: Not-For-Profit Corporation

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(509) 328-2939

Address

Inland Northwest Land Trust, 35 West Main Avenue, Suite 210, Spokane, WA 99201

USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service

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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.

 USDA Washington State Office

Organization Type: Government Agency

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Telephone

(509) 323-2900

Address

316 W. Boone Ave., Suite 450 Spokane, WA 99201-2348

Pacific Northwest Climate Impacts Research Consortium (CIRC)

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“The Climate Impacts Research Consortium  provides information and tools for making decisions about landscape and watershed management in a changing climate. CIRC is a consortium of three multi-university organizations: The Oregon Climate Change Research Institute , including Oregon State University and the University of Oregon ;Idaho’s project on Water Resources in a Changing Climate, funded by NSF’s Office of Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research , including University of Idaho , Boise State University , and Idaho State University.”

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(541) 737-5705

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Oregon State University 326 Strand Ag Hall Corvallis, OR, 97331

Build Local Alliance

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Build Local Alliance works with businesses, builders and artisans in northwest Oregon and southwest Washington to develop the local economy through sustainable forestry by supporting and using local wood for green building projects. The Build Local Alliance is composed of forest owners, millwrights, architects, designers, builders, craftsmen, homeowners and more.

Their mission is “to improve the vitality of local forests and related human communities by connecting local, responsibly grown and processed wood with local projects.”

Organization Type: Non-Profit

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(503) 221-6911 x101

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Portland, Oregon