Connecting Habitat Across the Northwest
Wildlife need connected habitats to move and thrive across the Pacific Northwest. Conservation Northwest works at multiple scales, reconnecting whole mountain ranges from the Olympics to the Cascades and on to the Rockies, restoring key ecoregions, and implementing site-specific interventions to rebuild the networks of habitat cores and corridors that species depend on.
Our Approach
How Habitat Connecting Happens
We focus on measurable outcomes, including functional wildlife corridors, safer passage across transportation networks, and landscapes strengthened to support resilient wildlife populations.
We balance the needs of working lands and the communities that depend on them.
Key focus areas:
- We reconnect mountain ranges across the Olympics, Cascades, and Rockies
- We restore habitat cores and wildlife corridors that species depend on
- We support safer wildlife passage while balancing community and working land needs
Our Work Connecting Habitat
Our connecting habitat work includes landscape connectivity, wildlife crossings, sagelands heritage, and championing connectivity across the Northwest.
Landscape Connectivity
Wildlife need room to move. We identify, protect, and restore critical habitat linkages that allow species to migrate, adapt to climate change, and maintain healthy, connected ecosystems.
Coast to Cascades
Coast to Cascades
Wildlife Crossings
By convening vested stakeholders and advancing safe-passage infrastructure where roads fragment habitat, we reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions and reconnect landscapes for the benefit of both animals and people.
Interstate 90 - East Cascades
Interstate 90 - East Cascades
Sagelands Heritage
In Washington’s shrub-steppe region, we partner across boundaries to conserve working lands, protect imperiled species, and sustain the ecological and cultural legacy of this iconic landscape.
Championing Connectivity
Durable connectivity solutions require coordinated action. We convene and work with agencies, Tribes, policymakers, and partners to advance the science and implementation needed to keep landscapes connected.
Community Wildlife Monitoring Program
Tracking Wildlife on the Ground
Effective restoration depends on knowing where wildlife lives and how populations change over time. Our Community Wildlife Monitoring Program works with local partners to collect data that informs smarter, more responsive conservation decisions.
- Interstate 90
- Cascade Carnivores
Latest Connecting Habitat Updates
Stay up to date with field stories, recovery milestones, and conservation news from our wildlife restoration work across the Northwest.
