As part of our new Sagelands Heritage Program focusing on Central Washington’s arid lands, we’re joining a collaboration to maintain, restore and connect shrub-steppe habitat for the good of both wildlife and people. By Alaina Kowitz, Communications and Outreach Associate The sage grouse pokes her head out to greet the early morning sun rising over … Continued
Through our partnerships with the Forest Service, we’re helping restore habitat on national forests by decommissioning unnecessary and obselete forest roads. By Alaina Kowitz, Communications and Outreach Associate An important component of Conservation Northwest’s work is to ‘connect the big landscapes’, but the only way to accomplish this big-picture goal is to focus in … Continued
Many Washingtonians have questions about how grizzly bear restoration would work in the North Cascades. Thankfully, scientists from the National Park Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service don’t need to start from scratch! In northwest Montana, biologists have been successfully restoring grizzly bears for years, catching them near Glacier National Park where their numbers … Continued
By Chase Gunnell, Deputy Communications Director Sharing landscapes like the North Cascades with big, wild animals takes courage. But grizzly bears have called our region home for thousands of years. Despite plenty of food and habitat, only a few are left. We’re on the brink of losing an icon of the wild Pacific Northwest, and … Continued
Editor’s Note: For months, our community has supported efforts resisting the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. Today is the deadline for Water Protectors to vacate the Standing Rock camp of Oceti Oyate. As this fight moves from North Dakota to the courts in Washington, D.C., we wanted to share this poignant poem from our board member Amelia Marchand. Amelia is … Continued
By Chase Gunnell, Deputy Communications Director For years, biologists in northwest Montana’s Cabinet Mountains have been successfully augmenting that region’s grizzly bear population with bears from near Glacier National Park. Thanks to their hard work and some truly amazing animals, this bear population is bouncing back from the brink. But before a grizzly was ever … Continued
Get info on our 2020 auction and dinner! By Gazala Uradnik, Auction Coordinator and Amanda Bulley, Auction Intern Join us at our 14th annual auction and dinner on April 20th at 5:30 p.m. at Bell Harbor International Conference Center, as we host a celebration to help support Conservation Northwest and to bring together our dedicated conservation community. Our … Continued
New film highlights ways to restore North Cascades grizzly bears Last month, the National Park Service and other agencies released draft proposals for restoring the struggling grizzly bear population in Washington’s North Cascades. Although grizzlies have lived in the region for thousands of years and high-quality habitat remains abundant, biologists estimate that fewer than ten remain, making … Continued
By Chase Gunnell, Deputy Communications Director The 2017 session of Washington’s state legislature is underway, and we’ve been busy tracking a number of bills that relate to wildlife and wildlands. One of our top priorities this session is ensuring that the core of Blanchard State Forest is saved from logging. This is our LAST CHANCE to secure the … Continued
By Citizen Wildlife Monitoring Project staff While most of our Citizen Wildlife Monitoring Project remote camera sites are active only in the summer and fall, each winter our dedicated volunteers and staff maintain several sites looking for wolverines in remote areas of the Cascades. In 2016 one of them captured amazing new images of a gray wolf! … Continued