The Olympic Forest Coalition works to conserve and restore natural forest ecosystems and their processes on the Olympic Peninsula.
“The programs of OFCO focus on educating members of the public, officials, agencies, and other environmental, community and recreation groups on issues of importance to help achieve these goals.”
Organization Type: Not-For-Profit Corporation
Not indicated on website
The Tribal Climate Change Project is a collaborative project between the University of Oregon Environmental Studies Program and the USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station. The project focuses on understanding needs and opportunities for tribes in addressing climate change, examining the government-to-government relationship in a climate context and exploring the role of traditional knowledge in climate change studies, assessments and plans.
This project is part of the USDA Forest Service 2010 Coordinated Approach to Tribal Climate Change Research. Other Forest Service Research Stations engaged in this type of research include the Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station and the Forest Service Northern Research Station.
Organization Type: Government Agency
(541) 346-5777
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
The Greenbelt Land Trust (GLT) acts to conserve and protect in perpetuity native habitats, working lands and lands of natural beauty, which provide a connection to the natural world for residents of the Mid-Willamette Valley.
Organization Type: Not-For-Profit Corporation
(541) 752-9609
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.
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WA Department of Ecology
Organization Type: Government Agency
(360) 407-6300
According to their website“Earth Justice is a non-profit public interest law organization dedicated to protecting the magnificent places, natural resources, and wildlife of this earth, and to defending the right of all people to a healthy environment.”
Conservation of wild areas is natural carbon sequestration.
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(206) 343-7340
Depave is an 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that removes unnecessary pavement from the Portland area, to create community gardens and water runoff mitigation areas. Pavement is harmful in its social and environmental impacts, and this organization seeks to replace this material with soil and eventually plants. This is accomplished through community events that reconnect people with nature.
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