Tag Archives: Land

Cook InletKeeper

Mission: Protect Alaska’s Cook Inlet watershed and the life it sustains.

According to the website:

Cook Inletkeeper works to guarantee

  • Clean Water
  • Healthy Fish & Wildlife
  • Strong Communities
  • Clean Energy
  • Lasting Jobs

Cook Inletkeeper is a community-based nonprofit organization that combines advocacy, education and science toward its mission to protect Alaska’s Cook Inlet watershed and the life it sustains. Inletkeeper’s monitoring and science work builds credibility with scientists and resource managers, its education and advocacy efforts enhance stewardship and citizen participation, and together, these efforts translate into Inletkeeper’s ability to effectively ensure a vibrant and healthy Cook Inlet watershed.

Organization Type: Not-for-Profit Corporation

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Telephone

(907) 235-4068

Address

3734 Ben Walters Lane Homer, AK 99603

Chelan-Douglas Land Trust

According to their website “The Chelan-Douglas Land Trust works with local organizations, businesses, and individuals to protect what we all hold dear: beautiful natural areas, a strong economy, clean air and water, abundant wildlife, and the freedom to enjoy it all. Our support comes from members—people like you who care about our community and preserving our natural heritage.”

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(509) 667-9708

Address

P.O. Box 4461, 18 North Wenatchee Avenue Wenatchee, WA 98807 United States

Pacific Northwest Climate Impacts Research Consortium (CIRC)

“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

Preserve Our Islands

Preserve Our Islands is a watchdog organization dedicated to making sure that the mandated jobs of regulatory agencies are held up on a regional level. On a local level, Preserve Our Islands works to ensure that park management work on cleaning up arsenic, possibly failing septic systems, and low dissolved oxygen issues.

Their Mission is: “POI will continue to work on locally focused projects to tenaciously protect and preserve island habitats while at the same time branching out to work as regional regulatory “watchdog” group to ensure the protection of the greater Puget Sound nearshore.”

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(206) 745-2441

Address

PO Box 845 Vashon,WA 98070

Alaska Conservation Foundation

About:
Alaska Conservation Foundation (ACF) is a public foundation dedicated to Alaska’s conservation. They serve as a funder funder and supportive resources for nonprofits that work for conservation in Alaska. They inspire for Alaska to be economically sustainable and naturally thriving.

The mission is to build “strategic leadership and support for Alaskan efforts to take care of wild lands, waters, and wildlife, which sustain diverse cultures, healthy communities, and prosperous economies.”

Organization Type: Non-Profit

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Telephone

(907) 276-1917

Address

911 West 8th Ave., Suite 300 Anchorage, AK 99501-2340

Friends of Living Waters (FLOW)

Mission: To provide legal oversight, monitoring and public education to protect Oregon Waters from pollution and development.

“FLOW was formed in 2002 to help protect and restore Oregon’s waters.  We understand and develop the need for increased grassroots activist organizing and public participation concerning river and water issues is needed in Oregon due to the magnitude and range of pollution and development threats. Volunteers lead the organization and do the legal, conservation and outreach work.”

FLOW is a grassroots organization committing extraordinary time and effort to their work and volunteerism.

Organization Type: Non-government Organization

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Not indicated on website

Address

FLOW, P.O. Box 2478,Grants Pass, OR 97528

Viva Farms

Viva Farms “provide new farmers affordable access to education, training and technical assistance; capital and credit; land and markets.”  Farmers are given a square mile of farm land to get started.  The vegetables are sold in a CSA (community supported agriculture) approach in box shares.  Its parent organization is GrowFood.org, a national organization.

Organization Type: Not-For-Profit Corporation

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Telephone

(360) 707-3223

Address

Viva Farms P.O. Box 1714 Mount Vernon, WA 98273

Conservation Northwest

Conservation sequesters Carbon and deforestation is a major cause of climate change conservation northwest aims to conserve wild spaces. On their website they state “ today they are ensuring the region is wild enough to support wildlife, from wolves to grizzly bears to mountain caribou. We work with local communities on forest restoration, creating sustainable timber jobs and wilderness protection. We help ensure safe passage for wildlife, including those moving north and south in the Cascades and across the Canadian border, and east and west between the Cascades and Selkirks of the Rockies.”

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(206) 675-9747

Address

3600 15th Ave W, #101, Seattle, WA 98119

Washington State Department of Ecology


The Department of Ecology works in all areas of the environment to protect and manage Washington’s natural resources. Their work includes education in environmental issues, working with different groups on all kind of different issues, including climate change.

Analysis of Department of Ecology Activities:
WA Department of Ecology

Organization Type: Government Agency

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(360) 407-6300 ‎

Address

300 Desmond Dr SE, Lacey, WA

Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust

About:
The Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust is a coalition of farmers, environmentalists, timber companies, developers, federal and state agencies and more. They strive for a  sustainable relationship between people and nature in the 1.5 million acre landscape.

Their mission is to lead and inspire 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.”

Their Work Includes:

Organization Type: Non-Profit

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Telephone

(206) 382-5565

Address

911 Western Avenue, Suite 203 Seattle, WA 98104