BARK  (OR)              $1000

Funds the Restore Mt. Hood campaign to create and promote a scientifically based alternative management plan for the Mount Hood National Forest in Oregon that prioritizes restoring clean water, abundant wildlife, and world-class recreation.

Bear River Watershed Council  (UT)              $2000

Supports Project MUD which trains and sends volunteers into Utah’s national forests to document damage from motor vehicles such as unauthorized roads, severe rutting, and intrusions into Wilderness areas.  

Biodiversity Conservation Alliance  (WY)     $1000

Provides funds for seven important lawsuits to protect and restore reservoirs of biodiversity, including pristine core forest and grassland habitats, key migration corridors, and threatened fish in Wyoming and surrounding regions.

Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project  (OR)              $2000

Provides continuing support for the protection of eastern Oregon’s forests through timber sale monitoring, appeals, negotiation, and litigation, and strategies to stop escalating herbicide use.

Buckeye Forest Council  (OH)              $2000

Provides continuing support for the Forest Watch Project that trains volunteers to monitor logging and other resource extraction activities in Ohio’s 20 state forests and Wayne National Forest and educates the public about the need to protect these public forest lands for wildlife habitat and low-impact recreation.

Butte Environmental Council  (CA)      $1000

Funds efforts to stop the export of northern California’s surface and ground water, thereby protecting the imperiled species that depend upon the water for survival.

Cascade Resources Advocacy Group  (OR)              $1500

Supports a science-based campaign to challenge post-fire salvage logging projects in old-growth forests east of the Pacific Northwest’s Cascade Mountains and to educate the public about the ecological harm caused by such logging.

Cascadia Wildlands Project  (OR)              $1000

Supports efforts to stop old-growth timber sales in southern Oregon through strategic litigation.

Center for Native Ecosystems  (CO)      $1500

Funds the Species Safety Net program to evaluate and monitor the status of the most imperiled species across the Greater Southern Rockies region and to implement action plans for the species most at risk of extinction.

Colorado Wild  (CO)      $2000

Provides continuing support for a campaign to preserve a critical wildlife corridor, rare species, wetlands, air quality, and nearby wilderness areas in the Southern Rocky Mountains of Colorado from the Villages at Wolf Creek, a massive development proposal at the base of Wolf Creek ski area.

Cook Inlet Keeper  (AK)              $1500

Funds the Beluga Whale Project to raise community awareness and promote grassroots citizen action for the protection and recovery of Alaska’s highly imperiled Cook Inlet beluga whale population.

Coosa River Basin Initiative  (GA)              $1000

Funds efforts to protect endangered species habitat from unwise land development and land-use practices in fast-growing suburban Atlanta communities of the Etowah River Basin.

Environmental Defense Project of Sierra County  (CA)      $1500

Supports a campaign to redirect destructive land-use decisions in the Sierra Valley of California by monitoring and litigating ecologically harmful development projects.

Friends of Blackwater  (WV)     $2000

Funds a citizen campaign to protect the Blackwater Trail in West Virginia by challenging the Forest Service’s failure to address the impacts of logging and development on endangered species, the Blackwater River, historic site, and tourism revenue.

Friends of Merrymeeting Bay  (ME)              $1500

Funds advocacy work to provide safe passage for imperiled American eels at dams on two Maine rivers which block access the eels’ freshwater habitat.

From the Ground Up  (MN)    $1000

Funds the creation of a web-accessible, multilayered GIS map of the intensively farmed landscapes of the greater Blue Earth River basin in south central Minnesota, to highlight those places across the watershed where conservation measures such as habitat restoration and alternative cropping systems can have the greatest impact.

Georgia ForestWatch  (GA)      $2000

Supports ongoing monitoring of forest management practices on Georgia’s Chatahoochee-Oconee National Forest.

Grand Canyon Wolf Recovery Project (AZ)              $1000

Funds a project to organize teachers across the Grand Canyon ecoregion and help them to incorporate wolf conservation education into their classrooms.

Los Padres Forest Watch  (CA)      $1500

Supports the Range Restoration Program, which uses monitoring, advocacy, and litigation to protect biodiversity and watersheds by significantly reducing damage caused by public lands grazing along California’s Central Coast.

Mattole Restoration Council (CA)              $1000

Supports the Forest Practices Review Program which provides scientific input by concerned citizens into Pacific Lumber’s Mattole Watershed Analysis to prevent increased timber harvest of fragile private forest lands in northern California.

Nordic United  (UT)      $1000

Supports efforts to ensure that management of motorized recreation on Utah’s public lands adheres to environmental law and protects ecosystems while reducing conflicts with those seeking non-motorized recreational experiences.  

NW Resistance Against Genetic Engineering (OR)     $1500

Funds the Creeping Bentgrass Project to prevent commercialization of this genetically engineered grass, to monitor for GE contamination, and to distribute fact-based materials to farmers and the community at-large.

Prairie Dog Coalition  (CO)      $1500

Funds a campaign to rally public support against a proposal for massive poisoning of prairie dogs on National Grasslands in the Great Plains ecosystem.

Predator Defense  (OR)     $1000

Supports efforts to organize public opposition to the Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife’s new Cougar Management Plan, which calls for the killing of thousands of cougars, or nearly half the state’s cougar population.

Quiet Use Coalition  (CO)      $1500

Provides funding to defend roadless areas in central Colorado through grassroots organization to influence local off-road vehicle travel plans by promoting protection of imperiled species and habitat protection.

Red Rock Forests  (UT)              $2000

Provides funds to protect de facto wilderness in the Sky Island Mountains of southeastern Utah by monitoring, mapping, and submitting closure petitions on ecologically damaging vehicle routes that negatively impact wildlife, watersheds,  and wild landscapes.  

Rock the Earth  (CO)              $1000

Funds legal research to challenge the National Park Service’s Colorado River Management Plan which fails to adequately protect and restore the stretch of the Colorado River that runs through Grand Canyon National Park.

Rocky Mountain Clean Air Action  (CO)              $2000

Supports legal action against the Environmental Protection Agency and a multinational cement company to reduce air pollution from smokestacks that threatens wildlife, fish and plants in Colorado’s Rocky Mountain National Park and the surrounding ecosystem.

Rocky Mountain Recreation Initiative  (CO)      $1000

Funds citizen participation in the Forest Service and BLM motorized vehicle route designation process in Colorado to ensure protection for wilderness-quality lands, wildlife and critical habitat.

Sagebrush Sea Campaign  (AZ)      $2000

Funds a project to protect greater sage-grouse and Gunnison sage-grouse and their threatened ‘Sagebrush Sea’ habitat by listing these two species under the Endangered Species Act.

San Luis Valley Ecosystem Council  (CO)              $1500

Supports a citizens’ campaign to halt the Village at Wolf Creek, a major urban development project in southern Colorado that would harm wildlife migration, fen wetlands, and water quality in the Upper Rio Grande River.

San Marcos River Foundation  (TX)      $2000

Funds litigation to maintain in-stream flows in the San Marcos and Guadalupe rivers of Texas to preserve the whooping crane and many other birds, fish, and animals in coastal bays.

Sitka Conservation Society  (AK)              $3000

Provides continuing support for the Tongass Groundtruthing Project which is a systematic field-based landscape analysis of Forest Service lands in Alaska.

Southern Appalachian Biodiversity Project  (NC)              $1500

Provides continuing support for the Forest Watch Program to stop the loss of wildlife habitat and ecosystem services on national forests in five southern Appalachian states by holding government agencies accountable for enforcing conservation laws on public land, public education, and legal advocacy.

Tennessee Forest Council  (TN)              $1500

Funds a project to conserve the biodiversity of Tennessee’s forests by promoting progressive forest management policies.

Tomales Bay Association  (CA)      $1000

Supports a campaign to prevent urban development in streamside buffers thereby protecting California’s largest remaining population of endangered Coho salmon, located in west Marin County.

Umpqua Watersheds  (OR)     $2000

Provides continuing support for efforts to protect and recover the Umpqua River watershed in southwestern Oregon through outreach, education, field work, and legal and policy actions.

Upper Arkansas and South Platte Project (CO)              $1500

Funds the Wild Connections Project to protect roadless lands of the Pike-San Isabel National Forest in Colorado by conducting field trips to proposed Wilderness areas, ground-checking proposed motorized routes, and mobilizing citizens to attend public meetings.

Virginia Forest Watch  (VA)      $2000

Funds efforts to ensure protection for Wilderness and wildlife habitat in the 1.7 million-acre George Washington and Jefferson National Forests in Virginia which host some of the largest roadless areas and key wildlands in the southern Appalachians.

Western Lands Project  (WA)    $1000

Funds a campaign to stop the dangerous ‘quid pro quo wilderness’ trend being promulgated in congressional bills, which ties wilderness designation to public land sales, trades, or conveyances.

Wild South  (AL)      $1500

Funds a project to monitor natural forest restoration work in the Bankhead National Forest in Alabama and assist other organizations in the South to promote and adopt restoration goals on public lands.

Wilderness Watch   (MT)              $1000

Supports legal challenges to current management in California’s Emigrant Wilderness where 11 reservoirs are damaging wetlands habitat, and to improve management in the John Muir and Ansel Adams Wilderness areas. Both cases will establish crucial precedents affecting 680 designated Wilderness Areas and 107 million acres of federal land.

Wildwest Institute  (MT)     $1500

Funds the Public Lands Project which monitors public lands management in the Northern Rockies bioregion to protect forest habitat and biodiversity through watershed and wildfire restoration programs and coordination of media and public education.