Tag Archives: Conservation

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

Website

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Telephone

(360) 825-1631

Address

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

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

The Nature Conservancy in Washington

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

Website

Telephone

(206) 343-4345

Address

The Nature Conservancy in Washington 1917 1st Avenue Seattle, WA 98101 USA

Our Children’s Trust

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

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Contact e-mail

Telephone

(541) 375-0158

Address

Mail: P.O. Box 5181, Eugene, OR 97405

Landscape Conservation Incentives

Description:

This is a list of Landscape Conservation Initiatives that the USDA has implemented since 2009. These initiatives enable NRCS to more effectively address priority natural resource concerns by delivering systems of practices, primarily to the most vulnerable lands within geographic focus areas.

Through these initiatives, NRCS seeks to accomplish:

  • Conservation beyond boundaries—Landscape-scale natural resource concerns, such as species conservation and water quality, cannot be treated effectively based on geo-political boundaries.  NRCS recognizes that natural resource concerns transcend farm, county, and state boundaries.
  • A science-based approach—Findings from the multi-agency Conservation Effects Assessment Project (CEAP) indicate the most effective way to increase protection of natural resources is to target conservation to the most vulnerable or valuable areas and to apply a systems rather than a practice-by-practice approach.  Within individual initiatives, the best available university and government science resources are used to define initiative targeting approaches.
  • Build on existing locally-led efforts and partnerships—NRCS seeks to maximize the success of initiatives by leveraging partner interest and resources through programmatic and other tools.
  • Regulatory certainty for agricultural producers—Where applicable, NRCS is working with regulators so agricultural producers can have certainty that the voluntary conservation systems they implement are consistent with current and potential regulation, as well as sustained agricultural production.

These incentives are :

  • Bay Delta Initiative (BDI)                                                                                                     Improving water quantity and quality in the Bay Delta area of California for over 23 million people and irrigation water to four million acres of farmland.
  • Chesapeake Bay Watershed Initiative (CBWI)                                                                      Supporting rural economies, protecting wildlife habitat and improving water quality in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed.
  • Everglades Initiative (EI)                                                                                                       Improving water quality, controlling invasive plant species, improving wildlife and fish habitat and supporting rural economies in the Florida Everglades region.
  • Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI)                                                                            Restoring and protecting watersheds in eight states surrounding the Great Lakes that provide drinking water for over 40 million Americans and drive a $62 billion annual economy of fishing, boating and recreational activities.
  • Gulf of Mexico Initiative (GoMI)                                                                                         Improving water quality, increasing water conservation and enhancing wildlife habitat within watersheds draining into the Gulf of Mexico in the states of Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas.
  • Illinois River and Eucha-Spavinaw Lake Initiative (IRWI)                                                   Reducing nutrients, bacteria and sediment and enhancing the economic viability of agricultural operations within the Illinois River Sub-Basin and Eucha-Spavinaw Lake Watershed of Arkansas and Oklahoma.
  • Lesser Prairie Chicken Initiative (LPCI)                                                                              Expanding Lesser prairie-chicken habitat and benefiting the long-term sustainability of producers’ agricultural operations in high priority habitat areas in the current range in the states of Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas.
  • Longleaf Pine Initiative (LLPI)                                                                                              Enhancing critical wildlife habitat and improving the health, sustainability and profitability of privately owned Longleaf pine forests in the southeastern United States.
  • Migratory Bird Habitat Initiative (MBHI)                                                                                Providing food, water and critical habitat for bird populations, supporting local economies by attracting hunters and bird watchers, and expanding opportunities for improved wildlife management.
  • Mississippi River Basin Healthy Watershed Initiative (MRBI)                                               Improving water quality, restoring wetlands, and enhancing wildlife habitat and agricultural profitability in priority small watersheds of the Mississippi River in the states of Arkansas, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.
  • New England / New York Forestry Initiative (NENYI)                                                               Helping keep forests as forests in the New England region that provide clean drinking water, support rural economies and protect wildlife habitat.
  • North Central Wetlands Conservation Initiative (NCWCI)                                              Protecting wetlands and improving water quality, flood water retention and fish and wildlife habitat in the Prairie Pothole Region of Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota.
  • Ogallala Aquifer Initiative (OAI)                                                                                         Reducing aquifer water use, improving water quality and enhancing the economic viability of croplands and rangelands in Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, New Mexico, Texas, South Dakota and Wyoming
  • Red River Initiative (RRI)                                                                                                Decreasing water quantity flowing into the Red River and its tributaries to reduce flooding potential, increasing water quality, and restoring wildlife habitat for migratory species.
  • Sage Grouse Initiative (SGI)                                                                                               Conserving Greater sage-grouse population by restoring its habitat and improving the productivity of ranching operations in 11 western states.
  • West Maui Coral Reef Initiative (WMCRI)                                                                        Reducing pollution to improve coastal water quality and coral reef ecosystem health in the Ka’anapali-Kahekili watershed of Hawaii.
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National Parks Association Conservation: Glaciers

“To protect parks and to get awareness out about them. Also to protect the animals and the terrain like mountains and glaciers.”

This website is dedicated to protecting the landscape and species of the national parks. They also have connections to other states where they are trying to help them get the protection that they need. They also wish for people to enjoy the parks while being aware of them.

http://www.npca.org/protecting-our-parks/air-land-water/mining-and-fracking/victory_for_glacier.html (link about glaciers)

 

Organization Type: Conservation

Website

Telephone

(202) 223-6722

Address

777 6th Street, NW, Suite 700 Washington

Friends of Trees

Mission statement: To bring people in the Portland-Vancouver and Eugene-Springfield metro areas together to plant and care for city trees and green spaces.

“Through our Neighborhood Trees program, homeowners buy discounted trees to plant with their neighbors at weekend plantings.

Through our Green Space Initiative, trained crew leaders guide volunteers at weekend events to restore green spaces.”

Organization Type: Not-For-Profit Corporation

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Contact e-mail

Telephone

(503) 282-8846

Address

3117 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Portland, OR 97212

Corvallis Environmental Center

The Corvallis Environmental Center is a nonprofit organization that helps educate communities, individuals both young and old, and business to operate in an environmentally friendly way.  According to their mission statement:

“The Corvallis Environmental Center is a key player in the creation of a sustainable community – one in which the environment, the economy and social systems are connected in a way that meets the needs of present generations without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. As a result of these efforts, the concepts of sustainability will be widely understood and practiced by individuals and organizations, and Corvallis will be known for its commitment to an ecologically sound future.”

Based in Oregon, they work with other environmental groups to advocate sustainable lifestyles.

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(541) 753-9211

Address

214 SW Monroe Ave, Corvallis, OR 97333

Kootenai Environmental Alliance

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

Website

Contact e-mail

Telephone

(208) 667-9093

Address

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