Conservation Northwest
- Website
- http://www.conservationnw.org
- Contact Name
- Jodi Broughton
- Contact Email
- jodi@antispamconservationnw.org
- Location
Conservation Northwest protects and connects old-growth forests and other wild areas from the Washington Coast to the BC Rockies for the benefit of both people and wildlife. Founded in 1989, we have now have 21 staff in offices in Bellingham, Seattle, Spokane and Republic. We rely on our 5,000 member households for over 70% of our annual income. We keep the Northwest wild using a mix of science, advocacy, innovation and collaboration.
We protect and restore public lands by working closely with local communities. We work with land managers and local interests to promote practices that benefit healthy wildlife such as grizzly bear, gray wolf, Canada lynx, mountain caribou, salmon and trout. Our concerns are regional, but our work today is primarily focused on: protecting British Columbia's Inland Temperate Rainforest and endangered mountain caribou, championing wilderness designation in northeastern Washington through our Columbia Highlands Initiative; and ensuring safe passage for wildlife in the Cascades (the I-90 Wildlife Bridges Coalition).
Just a few of our successes include:
- Reintroducing the Pacific fisher back to the Olympics (together with the WA Dept. of Fish & Wildlife)
- Leading The Cascades Conservation Partnership that raised $84 million in public and private funds to purchase more than 45,000 acres of critical wildlife habitat in the Central Cascades;
- Helping the Mountain Caribou Project get the BC government to announce a recovery plan for the highly endangered mountain caribou that will protect over 5 million acres of habitat from logging and damaging motorized recreation.
- Starting and leading the Pinchot Partnership, a collaborative group of labor, loggers, mill owners and conservationists seeing on-the-ground restoration and second-growth thinning successes as well as moving other national forests along in the collaborative model for forest management;
- Raising $17 million in a little more than one year to purchase and protect 25,000 acres of critical habitat in the Loomis State Forest; then leveraging that victory into the designation of the 70,000-acre Snowy Mountain Provincial Park just north of Loomis in British Columbia;
- 14+ years of forest watch on forests in Washington's Cascades that have protected more than 167,000 acres of forests from timber sales.
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