Category Archives: Washington

Organizations located or doing work in Washington State.

Puget Sound Partnership

The Puget Sound Partnership is a community effort to restore and protect the Puget Sound. They priorities cleanup and improvement projects, coordinate federal, state, local, tribal and private resources. The Puget Sound Partnership works with salmon recovery, and oil spills  and ECO Net (Education, Communication and Outreach Network)

Organization Type: Government

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Telephone

(360) 464-1232

Address

1111 Washington Street SE Olympia, WA 98504-7000

ForTerra

ForTerra works to conserve land. In the past twenty years they have conserved more than 180,000 acres of important urban green space, working lands, and rivers, streams and forests throughout the region. ForTerra practices conservation by protecting lands, land stewardship practices, conservation initiatives for the central cascade region and across the Olympic Peninsula, by transferring development rights and minimize damage to sensitive natural areas.

Organization Type: orginization

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Telephone

(206)292-5907

Address

King County Office (Main Office) 901 5th Avenue, Ste. 220 Seattle, WA 98164

Initiative for Rural Innovation and Stewardship

The Initiative for Rural Innovation and Stewardship works with the community to teach development for sustainable rural communities and natural resources-based economies by implementing projects across North Central Washington. One project they have done is Classroom in Bloom which is a one-half acre farm on a shared campus for the Methow Valley. Initiative for Rural Innovation and Stewardship has three programs that they take part in, Regional Food Systems, Nature of Place in North Central Washington, and Healthy Lands. These programs help the community though education, promote biodiversity in the ecosystem, and produce and promote exchange of food in North Central Washington.

Organization Type: NGO

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Telephone

(509) 881-1812

Address

P. O. Box 4563 Wenatchee, WA 98807

Washington State Department of Natural Resources

The Washington State Department of Natural Resources works with conservation and restoration, geology, earth, aquatic and marine sciences, forestry, forest health and forest ecology, watersheds, wetlands, and reparian sciences and State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA). With this work they help to conserve and restore natural resources.

Organization Type: Government

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Telephone

(360) 825-1631

Address

Shoreline District 950 Farman Avenue N Enumclaw, WA 98022-9282

Methow Conservancy

“Methow Conservancy has protected 7,388 acres and 26.45 miles of critical riparian shoreline habitat along the Methow River and its tributaries. Methow Conservancy works with landowners to care for their land and monitor their easement lands. A monthly natural history lecture series is hosted monthly to raise awareness about conservation issues.”

Organization Type: non-profit orginization

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Telephone

(509) 996-2870

Address

The Methow Conservancy 315 Riverside * PO Box 71 Winthrop, WA 98862