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2005 Fund for Wild Nature Grantees  -  First-time grantees are italicized.  (11 of 26)
All projects are within the US unless otherwise specified.
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Arizona Native Plant Society  (AZ)         $1500
Supports the “Grow Native: Don’t Plant A Pest” campaign, which includes developing and disseminating brochures and a website to educate homeowners, local nurseries, and the public about the ecological impacts of invasive non-native plants, and to suggest native alternatives.

BARK  (OR)        $1500

Continues support for the Mt. Hood Defense Campaign, a successful place-based campaign engaging the community in forest conservation and broadening support.

Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project  (OR)          $1500
Funds forest protection through timber sale monitoring, appeals, negotiation and litigation.  Also related local and regional public outreach, including speaking presentations, community forums, slideshows, workshops, public hikes and intern training, with the aim of protecting a large area of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems and biological diversity in eastern Oregon.

Buckeye Forest Council  (OH)         $1500
Supports the Forest Protection Project, which is devoted to ending destructive logging, coal mining, and oil and gas drilling in Ohio’s 20 state forests and Wayne National Forest through grassroots organizing, litigation, legal appeals, direct action, and legislative advocacy.

Center for Native Ecosystems  (CO)          $2000
Funds the Ecosystem Defense Program, which prevents native species extinction, recovers significantly degraded native species and ecosystems, and continues to grow public and political support for endangered species and environmental protection in the Greater Southern Rockies region.  Also supports challenging oil and gas lease proposals, protecting roadless areas, and working to uphold key national laws and regulations.

Collier County Audubon Society  (FL)           $1000
Supports a two-part strategy to protect as much environmentally significant land in south Florida as possible.  The first component is public acquisition; the second is opposing development permits.  Methods include production of printed advocacy materials with a goal to strengthen advocacy and litigation activities in support of wildlife habitat preservation.

Colorado Wild  (CO)          $1500
Continues assistance for a campaign to preserve a critical wildlife corridor, rare species, wetlands, air quality, and surrounding wilderness areas from a massive development at the base of Wolf Creek ski area in the southern Rocky Mountains of Colorado.

Concerned Citizens for Clean Water  (NM)        $1000
Supporting efforts to oppose the influx of industrialized dairies and other industries onto New Mexico and Texas lands dotted with thousands of playa lakes; and challenging a 2001 court decision in order to help set a precedent in favor of conservation and against weakening the federal Clean Water Act.

Field Notes Productions  (NY)          $1000
Funds efforts to address the low number of environmental economics topics that are covered by the U.S. media by producing stories for public radio through alliances with the world’s largest and best conservation organizations.

Great Old Broads for Wilderness  (CO)          $1000
Implements a grassroots citizen science initiative that provides monitoring, data, and analysis in support of responsible public land policies regarding off-road vehicles, which are an increasingly serious problem for America’s wild ecosystems.

Heartwood  (IL)            $1000
To maintain and expand the existing forest protection network in the East, Midwest, and South through increased efficiency within Heartwood and across the regional network of organizations, activist groups, and concerned citizens.

Kentucky Heartwood   (KY)          $1000
Provides funds for coordination, information, and a campaign arm for the existing KICK66 network and its allies.  These organizations are working to prevent the proposed Interstate 66 from destroying interior forests, endangered species habitat, public lands, and human communities across Kentucky.

Klamath Forest Alliance  (OR)          $2500
Funds litigation, ground-truthing, National Environmental Policy Act comments, appeals, public education, and hikes on the four National Forests and two Bureau of Land Management districts in the Klamath Basin.  The Alliance aims to stop harmful logging and mining projects, to encourage restoration, and to educate the public on land management.

Los Padres ForestWatch   (CA)         $2000
Supports the Grazing Reform Program, which protects watersheds by significantly reducing grazing on public lands along California’s Central Coast.  The program consists of information gathering, advocacy, and litigation to ensure that existing and future grazing activities on the national forest are consistent with conservation biology and environmental laws.

National Forest Protection Alliance  (VA)         $1000
Funds the 2005 America’s 10 Most Endangered Forests report, a biennial publication that highlights the most endangered national forests, with a timely focus on the end uses of national forest wood products.  Also provides support for nationally coordinated public media events.

Native Forest Network  (MT)         $2000
Supports a comprehensive campaign to stop logging of ancient forests in Montana’s Bitterroot National Forest, to publicize this project nationally, to expose the problems and concerns with the Healthy Forests Restoration Act, and to use this project to continue building alliances with restoration practitioners, rural community members, and outdoor enthusiasts.

Prairie Dog Coalition   (CO)          $1500
To increase public support for protection of prairie dogs and restoration of prairie ecosystems.  Activities include distributing a newsletter, providing management plan templates, hosting outreach events, and maintaining a central resource hub.

Predator Defense  (OR)          $1000
Supports an ongoing campaign to ban Compound 1080 (sodium monofluoroacetate), a highly toxic poison used by ranchers and federal agents to kill predators in the West.  PDI uses legislation, litigation, education, and investigative fieldwork to stop the production, use, and stockpiling of this dangerous poison.

Rocky Mountain Recreation Initiative  (CO)          $1000
Encourages the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management to designate a limited number of off-road vehicle routes and then pay for the law enforcement and intensive management to keep ORVs on these routes.  Also provides funding to develop grassroots pressure on the Forest Service to make ORV management a top funding priority.

Sequoia Forest Keeper   (CA)         $1000
Supports efforts to ensure that logging and other activities that could negatively impact the Giant Sequoia National Monument are prohibited, and that the Monument is truly protected as intended by its governing Presidential Proclamation.  The Protect the Monument Enforcement Campaign includes monitoring, outreach, education and litigation.

Southern Forests Network  (AL)          $1500
Funds continued efforts to produce and distribute educational materials to forestry professionals and landowners, and launch a campaign for corporate accountability in legislation in South Carolina, an industry hot-spot for genetic engineering in forestry.  This is the only organization in the South actively monitoring and opposing genetic engineering in forestry.

Southern Plains Land Trust   (CO)          $2000
Supports shortgrass prairie restoration and protection.  Activities include distributing the newsletter The Grasslands Gazette, hosting events, and maintaining an effective office and communications center that promotes grasslands biodiversity.

Umpqua Watersheds  (OR)          $1000
Continues assistance for ongoing work to improve public forestland and river management practices, preserve wild areas for future wilderness designation, educate and connect people to wild places, provide a safer community for conservation voices, and build an organization to sustain this progress.

Upper Arkansas & South Platte Project   (CO)          $1000
To support creation of viable large carnivore (lynx, cougar, wolf) populations in the Pike-San Isabel region.  Communities will host presentations on wildlands, lynx, and roadless areas, participate in field trips to wild areas, advocate for protection of wild areas in forest plan revisions, and implement a hands-on project related to lynx and carnivore protection.

Wild Farm Alliance  (CA)         $1000
Funds work to make biodiversity standards an urgent issue among organic certifiers and farmers by obtaining National Organic Standards Board endorsement of biodiversity amended inspection forms, and by influencing organic certifiers to implement these recommendations.  The National Organic Program rule requires biodiversity conservation, but the organic industry has ignored this regulation.

Wild Utah Project   (UT)          $1500
Provides biological research and technical support for the conservation community in Utah and adjacent states.  The aim is to shape regional land use in a way that restores native wildlife, expands wilderness, and protects biodiversity.  The WUP assists other campaigns with computer mapping services, new ecosystem assessment tools, and other ecological analyses.