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2003 Grantees  -  First-time grantees are italicized.
All projects are within the US unless otherwise specified.
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Action for Social & Ecological Justice (VT) $1750
To compel the Inter-American Development Bank to divest from Plan Puebla Panama, a mega-development project (highways, energy and industrial development) that would destroy forests and wetlands and displace many indigenous inhabitants across southern Mexico and Central America.

Allegheny Defense Project (PA) $2000
To support the development of and advocacy for a science-based citizen's alternative to the Allegheny National Forest management plan.

Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters (CA) $2000
For activist training, forest monitoring, public education and media outreach in the San Francisco Bay area to help save the last private redwood groves in northern California.

Beyond Biodevastation (CA) $2000
To support a week of educational events in San Francisco promoting alternatives to genetically engineered crops and products. This annual event always precedes the Biotechnology Industry Organization's conference.

Biodiversity Conservation Alliance (WY) $2500
To map the boundaries and create an inventory of the Sand Creek roadless area, one of the last wildlands remaining on the Black Hills National Forest; and to build a public constituency for the entire forest's imperiled flora and fauna.

Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project (OR) $3000
To counter federal timber sales disguised as wildfire prevention programs in the dry National Forests of eastern Oregon.

Californians for GE-Free Agriculture (CA) $1500
To educate rice farmers and the food processing industry about the economic threat posed by genetically engineered rice, and to help them keep rice free from genetic manipulation.

Cascade Resources Advocacy Group (OR) $2000
Office rent for a public interest law firm providing affordable representation to environmental activists and grassroots groups.

Cascadia Rising (OR) $1500
To open an office to coordinate regional outreach, fundraising and activist trainings among small, grassroots forest defense organizations in the Pacific Northwest.

Cascadia Wildlands Project (OR) $2000
For hikes and other public events to engage the public in protecting Pacific Northwest forests, particularly the Willamette National Forest.

Center for Native Ecosystems (CO) $3000
To support their Species and Ecosystem Defense Program, which protects imperiled species in the Greater Southern Rockies ecosystems. Species affected include lynx, Douglas County pocket gopher, Porter feathergrass, and the white-tailed prairie dog.

Central Sierra Environmental Resource Center (CA) $550
To protect Sierra Nevada meadows on the Stanislaus National Forest from livestock grazing and associated stream bank and riparian vegetation damage through range monitoring and advocacy.

Cycle Circus Sin Fronteras (TX) $1500
For collaboration with Luz y Fuerza, a Mexican street theatre group, and their monarch butterfly puppet show that focused on trade and biotechnology at the World Trade Organization Ministerial in Cancun, Mexico.

Eastern Forests Direct Action Camp (OH) $2500
To support a weeklong training in strategic, nonviolent forest defense skills, with a particular focus on threats specific to eastern national forests.

Flagstaff Activist Network (AZ) $3000
To build support for the new Governor's appointment of ecologically-minded people to the Arizona Game Commission, and ultimately for decisions from that body and the department it supervises that will protect the Southwest's imperiled keystone predator species.

Flying Rutabega Circus Review (VT) $2500
To support a group of activists who rode bikes from Saint Louis to Washington D.C. giving puppet shows, performances, and workshops about genetic engineering, sustainable and organic farming, and biological diversity.

Friends of Living Oregon Waters (OR) $1000
To protect Oregon waters through field research, advocacy, and outreach with an emphasis on Oregon's wild and scenic rivers, the Sand Lake Estuary and Dunes, public waters, hydropower proposals, development, and discharge permits for the Rogue Basin.

Gateway Green Alliance (MO) $2500
To support the 7th Grassroots Gathering on Biodevastation, an event in St. Louis, also the hometown of biotech industry leader Monsanto, and to define the link between environmental racism and the biotechnology industry.

Genetic Engineering Action Network (MA) $2000
To support a coalition of over 75 organizations opposed to biotechnology, with a mission of implementing mutually support strategies, campaigns, and organizing efforts.

Grant County Conservationists (OR) $1500
To monitor livestock grazing on the National Forests in eastern Oregon's Blue Mountains, particularly noting its impact to beaver, and to develop a collaborative conservation biology alternative for the Blue Mountain Province Forest Plan.

Great Plains Restoration Council (CO) $3000
For ongoing work to bring wild buffalo back to the Great Plains, while restoring healthy communities. This grant supported a Southern Plains link in Texas of the Buffalo Commons, and will be used for a statewide grassroots effort similar to a successful campaign in South Dakota.

Heartwood (IN) $2000
To support an annual public gathering for forest protection activists in the eastern United States, and an invitation-only litigation strategy meeting of attorneys and legal specialists involved in public lands legal actions.

High Plains Films (MT) $2000
To distribute the documentary film This Is Nowhere, examining the modern nomadic culture of those who live and "camp" in their RVs parked in Wal-Mart parking lots across the nation.

H.O.P.E. Farm (OR) $1000
For printing, travel and workshop materials for Holistic Organic Permaculture Education, a collaborative research and education project bringing together farmers, educators, and activists to explore innovative options for sustainable living.

Indiana Forest Alliance (IN) $2000
To support public education, litigation, and grassroots organizing efforts of this all-volunteer organization working to protect Indiana's state forests, critical islands of biodiversity.

John Muir Project (CA) $1000
For timber sale monitoring on Sierra Nevada national forests, including fuel, food, film, and color copying, all of which supports administrative appeals that would support any necessary litigation.

Kentucky Heartwood (KY) $1800
To support a multimedia presentation entitled "Change Is Inevitable, Highways Are Not," which opposes the proposed I-66 highway corridor across southern Kentucky, and through the Daniel Boone National Forest.

Kettle Range Conservation Group (WA) $2000
To monitor and challenge federal and state land management agencies in eastern Washington, and to ensure an off-road vehicle management plan that protects threatened and endangered species, water, wildlands and solitude.

Lake Worth Global Justice Group (FL) $1500
To support a community art space for development of puppets, props and street theatre as part of the protests against the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas' November 2003 ministerial meeting in Miami.

Liberty Cabbage Theatre Revival (MA) $2500
Touring in a biodiesel-fueled vehicle, the Revival uses drama, puppetry, music, slides and poetry in a presentation called Oiligarchy, to link America's over-consumption of petroleum to war, environmental degradation, social injustice, and fragmented communities.

National Forest Protection Alliance (MT) $1000
To print an issue of the Forest Advocate, which featured success stories of protecting public lands, campaign updates from across the US, voices of labor and community activists, and a preview of the Alliance's "10 Endangered Forests" report.

Native Forest Network (MT) $2000
To support activists in generating local, regional and national media coverage on wildfire issues by providing tools to grassroots activists and pro-actively working with media outlets; and to restore public lands in the northern Rocky Mountains and defend them from motorized recreation.

Native Trout Watch (CO) $2000
To protect native trout habitat in high-impact areas of Colorado's national forests, by supporting Forest Service regulatory and legal compliance and conservation agreements, through onsite monitoring, public comment, and establishment of baseline data.

North Coast Earth First! (CA) $2000
To save coastal old-growth forests by expanding local community outreach, providing legal support trainings and generating earned media.

Oregon Wildlife Federation (OR) $2000
To protect Oregon's state forests through organizing self-sustaining citizen groups advocating for sustainable forest practices.

Pacific Environmental Advocacy Center (OR) $2500
To support the Eastern Oregon Protection Project, a legal analysis and litigation program to protect national forests in eastern Oregon from two critical threats: livestock grazing and post-fire salvage logging.

Protecting and Restoring Oregon's Wild Lands (OR) $1500
In support of public education, outreach and forest monitoring efforts to protect the imperiled national forests of central Oregon.

Rainforest Relief (NY) $1500
To convince New York City to end the use of tropical hardwoods and shift markets for rainforest woods towards salvaged or recycled materials. New York City is the largest municipal consumer of rainforest wood in North America.

Red Rock Forests (UT) $2000
To protect the roadless areas of southeastern Utah's La Sal and Abajo mountain ranges by compelling the Manti La Sal National Forest to revise its forest plan for greater protection against off-road vehicle use, more biocentric management and less emphasis on commodity production, including timber and livestock.

SINAPU (CO) $1000
To support the 2003 RangeNet conference in Boulder, CO where activists shared a vision for a wilder Southern Rockies and refined strategies that challenge the hegemony of livestock grazing within the region's prime wolf habitat.

Sitka Conservation Society (AK) $1000
For a series of boat and foot outings to remote temperate old-growth rainforest islands in Southeast Alaska that are slated for logging in order to inspire support for their preservation.

smartMeme (CA) $2000
Pronounced "smart-meem," this organization produces training materials that help refine messages and strategically re-frame policy debates. Intensive trainings are designed for specific grassroots activist campaigns.

Southern Appalachian Biodiversity Project (NC) $2500
To support an Endangered Species Protection Program that uses public education, grassroots organizing, and legal advocacy to safeguard imperiled species of the southern Appalachian Mountains. Funding also provided for an endangered species roundtable for scientists and advocates working to protect endangered species in the region.

Uncompahgre Valley Association (CO) $1000
To assist communities on Colorado's Western Slope to organize against the planting of genetically engineered crops designed to 'grow drugs' for the pharmaceutical industry.

Urban Wilds Project (CA) $1500
To print and provide publicity for Sink or Swim: A history of Sausal Creek, a comic book about the history of human interaction with a local watershed in Oakland. The publication will be used in area schools to teach students about their interconnection with the water cycle.

Western Fire Ecology Center (OR) $2000
To change federal wildfire policy so it integrates the essential role of fire in forests, and counters the hysteria that lies behind the gutting of environmental protections and the opening of forests to destructive logging.

Wild South (AL) $2000
The Forest Service has a plan to restore pine plantations on the Bankhead National Forest to previous natural ecosystems in a cutting-edge restoration effort that is the first of its kind in the nation. This grant supported Wild South's effort to monitor and build public support for this restoration effort.

Wild Wilderness (OR) $2000
To organize opposition to the national Recreation Fee Demonstration Program, which continues to test the viability of charging access fees for public use of public lands.

Yaak Valley Forest Council (MT) $1500
To support a local and national campaign to protect a region that supports almost a complete suite of native species, including grizzly bears, wolves, lynx and wolverine. The campaign coincides with the revision of the Kootenai National Forest Plan that will determine the Yaak Valley's fate.