Category Archives: Forests & Agricultural Soils

This category includes organizations that focus on carbon capture through an ecologically balanced approach to managing natural resources. This approach to carbon stabilization includes the following strategies:
Reduced Deforestation
Reforestation
Afforestation
New Plantations
Conservation Tillage

Climate Access

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From their website –
“A bridge between research and action.
For years, we at TRIG’s Social Capital Project have been hearing from climate practitioners that this is what they need. Those in government and nonprofits trying to communicate to the public about climate change say that they often lack the time and resources to digest the latest research and incorporate it into their campaigns. Similarly, researchers wish to know more about how their findings are playing out in the field. Everyone wants to know what they need to know, and to have it available at their fingertips.
Climate Access is that bridge.”

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The Resource Innovation Group P.O. Box 51182 Eugene, OR 97405

Puget Sound Partnership

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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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(360) 464-1232

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1111 Washington Street SE Olympia, WA 98504-7000

ForTerra

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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.

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(206)292-5907

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

Initiative for Rural Innovation and Stewardship

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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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(509) 881-1812

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P. O. Box 4563 Wenatchee, WA 98807

Alaska Conservation Alliance

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The website says, “Alaska Conservation Alliance works to protect Alaska’s air, land and water by being a powerful voice for the conservation community in the civic arena.”

Founded in 1997, the Alaska Conservation Alliance is a statewide non-profit 501(c)(3) organization whose primary mission is to protect Alaska’s natural environment through voter education, engagement, and advocacy. The Alliance is the only statewide coalition group uniting Alaska’s conservation community and coordinating statewide grassroots into a powerful, cohesive force to impact public policy. We also educate policy makers and the public about environmental issues facing Alaska.

Alaska Conservation Alliance has three program areas: Advocacy, Education and Coordination.

 

Organization Type: Not-For-Profit Corporation

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(907) 258-6171

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Alaska Conservation Alliance, PO Box 100660, Anchorage, AK 99510

Washington State Department of Natural Resources

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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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(360) 825-1631

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

Washington Conservation Commission

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The Washington Conservation Commission leads Washington State residents to us wise stewardship, conservation practices and to protect our soil, water, and other related natural resources by implementation of incentive-based practices where agricultural viability is still intact.

The Washington Conservation Commission works on many programs that work towards their goal. These programs are, Farmland Preservation, Irrigation Efficiencies, Livestock Program, Professional Engineering, Rule Making, Voluntary Stewardship, Water Quality Grants,  The Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program: Changing Stream Corridors Throughout Washington (CREP), and Conservation Practices Data System (CPDS).

Organization Type: Government

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(360) 407-6200

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300 Desmond Drive - Lacey, WA 98503

Washington Conservation Corps (WCC)

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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

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(360) 407-6946

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300 Desmond Drive, Lacey, WA 98503