WILD NW action alert #247: June 11th meeting for input on the Northwest Forest Plan Can you attend a meeting at the Okanogan PUD tomorrow, June 11th from 5:30 to 8:00 p.m. to support Washington’s public forests? The U.S. Forest Service is beginning a public conversation on updating the Northwest Forest Plan. This comprehensive plan … Continued
By Chase Gunnell, CommunicationS Manager In an age of changing climate and people and wildlife on the move, it’s not enough to simply preserve fragmented wildlands like those around I-90 in Washington’s Cascades. Governments, organizations and businesses must work together to protect, restore and connect landscapes at the scale of greater ecosystems. Doing so advances habitat connectivity … Continued
By Chase Gunnell, Deputy Communications Director Washington’s Mountains to Sound Greenway is home to stunning wilderness, working farms and forests, extensive outdoor recreation, and prime wildlife habitat on the doorstep of the 15th largest metropolitan area in the nation. It’s time to make this important place a National Historic Area. Please add your name to the petition led … Continued
Wolverines (gulo gulo) have been recolonizing Washington’s North Cascades in recent years. Locally extirpated in the early 1900’s, these elusive creatures have slowly spread south from Canada since the early 2000’s, buoyed by Endangered Species protections and abundant mountain habitat. Today, it’s estimated that two to three dozen of these large mustelids (members of the weasel family) prowl … Continued
By Alison Huyett, Conservation Associate Conservation Northwest has been a leader in trying to restore a healthy population of grizzly bears in the transboundary North Cascades Ecosystem for more than two decades. And this year, we’re finally beginning to see some notable progress. As you may know, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Park … Continued
Mitch Friedman, our executive director, was in Washington, D.C. today testifying before congress on the need to better manage forests for ecological resilience; reducing the risks from wildfire, benefiting local communities, and improving wildlife habitat. And how we’ve been able to do so collaboratively as part of the Northeast Washington Forestry Coalition. Watch the archived video from the U.S. House … Continued
By Aleah Jaeger, Special Projects Coordinator with the I-90 Wildlife Bridges Coalition The I Heart I-90 Wildlife contest is under way and we are receiving some fantastic entries from youth across Washington state. From puppets and Lego bridges to oil pastels, the creativity of the artwork we are seeing is very impressive. As we get closer to … Continued
Winter updates, spring-fall season information and training details for our 2015 Citizen Wildlife Monitoring Project. Confirming the presence of rare carnivores and other native animals informs land management decisions wildlife depend on. It also helps guide our conservation programs and priorities, and those of state and federal agencies. Want to learn more about our wildlife monitoring … Continued
By Stephanie Pietromonaco, Development Manager and Nina Gruber, Auction Intern These sunny and warmer days mean that April is fast approaching, bringing us closer to auction time! Learn more at conservationnw.org/hope Our annual Hope for a Wild Future Dinner and Auction is coming up next Wednesday, April 1st and it’s no joke–we have been seriously working to put … Continued
By Joe Scott, International Conservation Director When we shot this documentary-style video in 2004 we couldn’t have known that we were still a decade away from any progress recovering grizzly bears in the North Cascades. So our enthusiasm from having a final quality product in hand was slowly dampened as it became clear that government was not ready … Continued