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2007 Fund for Wild Nature Grantees  -  All projects are within the US unless otherwise specified. (Please let us know if links are broken by sending us email.)

Barrington Land Conservation Trust (RI)     $350
Sponsors a continuing 18-year population study on 450 state-endangered Diamondback Terrapins that live in a local estuary and are threatened by boat propellers, egg predation, and habitat destruction.

Biodiversity Conservation Alliance (WY)     $2000
Supports six lawsuits filed to protect lands and wildlife in Wyoming. If successful these suits will save endangered fish, key migration corridors, and unique forest habitat.

Buckeye Forest Council (OH)     $2500
Supports the Forest Watch Project, which has trained volunteers to provide citizen oversight of Ohio's public forests, exposed destructive management priorities of government agencies, and advocated for more responsible forest management.

Burns Bog Conservation Society (BC)     $2000
Funds Stop the South Fraser Perimeter Road, which seeks to halt a development project with the potential to destroy a major stop on the Pacific Flyway and the largest salmon-bearing river in the world.

Crag Law Center (OR)     $2500
Supports litigation, outreach, and educational efforts for preserving old-growth protection rules on the forests east of the Cascade Crest in Washington and Oregon, where the Forest Service is attempting to gut protections for fish and wildlife.

Cascadia Wildlands Project (OR)    $1000
Funds Wild Forests and Rivers, a project to stop old growth logging on BLM lands in western Oregon, shift land management to degraded ecosystem restoration, and pass legislation to permanently protect forests and rivers.

Cherokee Forest Voices (TN)     $2000
Funds environmental advocacy and increased wilderness protection for the Cherokee National Forest in Eastern Tennessee.

Civil Liberties Defense Center (OR)     $2500
Supports the AETA Outreach and Education Campaign, which raises community awareness about the Animal Enterprise and Terrorism Act (AETA), and promotes grassroots citizen action to repeal it.

Colorado Wild (CO)     $2000
Supports Friends of Wolf Creek, a campaign to preserve a critical wildlife corridor in the Southern Rocky Mountains from a massive development at Wolf Creek Pass.

Firefighters United for Safety, Ethics, and Ecology (FUSEE) (OR)     $2500
Funds media, education, and policy projects to explain the effects of global warming on wildfires, and to propose hopeful solutions based on progressive fire management planning, community fire preparation, and ecosystem fire restoration.

Friends of Blackwater (WV)     $2000
Funds the Save Our Squirrel campaign, which opposes the delisting of the West Virginia northing flying squirrel, and seeks enforcement of the Endangered Species Act in the Appalachian highlands of Virginia and West Virginia.

Friends of Merrymeeting Bay (ME)     $2500
Funds efforts to provide American eels with adequate up and downstream passages at dams on two Maine rivers that provide key freshwater habitat.

Glen Canyon Institute (AZ)     $2000
Supports the protection and restoration of Glen Canyon and the Colorado River, and a re-designation of Glen Canyon National Recreation Area as a National Park to ensure permanent protection.

Grand Canyon Wolf Recovery Project (AZ)     $2500
Supports Policy Change in Action - Wolf Tracks to Tomorrow, a campaign to amend the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) to strengthen recovery of the Mexican wolf population through participation in the NEPA scoring process and the Environmental Impact Study comment period.

Harpseals.org (CA)     $2000
Funds Save the Seals! Boycott Canadian Seafood campaign that works to end the slaughter of Harp seals in Canada through promoting a nationwide boycott of Canadian seafood.

High Sierra Rural Alliance (CA)     $2000
Supports the preservation of open-space lands in Plumas County through challenges to all developments encroaching on open-space lands until the County adopts a General Plan with appropriate protections.

Maine Rivers (ME)     $1000
Supports litigation to restore the native anadromous alewife migration run to the St. Croix River watershed between Maine and New Brunswick. Unilateral action by the Maine Legislature in 1995 has nearly destroyed the alewives.

Olympic Forest Coalition (WA)     $2000
Funds challenges to the Environmental Impact Study on road development along the Doswallips River. The re-routing of a road would log ancient forests and harm Spring Chinook Salmon, Marbled Murrelets, and Northern Spotted Owls.

Prairie Dog Coalition (CO)     $3000
Supports Keep Poisons Off our Prairies Phases III, a campaign to halt a massive (16,000 acre) prairie dog poisoning in Conata Basin, South Dakota by removing conflicts with grazing permit holders, raising public support, and working to preserve the entire area as a wildlife preserve.

Redrock Forests (UT)     $2000
Supports the 2007-2008 Route Inventory for the Abajo Mountains of Utah's Canyonlands Basin, which seeks sustainable off-road recreation inside of forests and grasslands by creating a new district forest plan.

RESTORE: The North Woods (MA)     $2000
Supports the Maine Woods National Park Campaign, which seeks to create a Maine Woods National Park & Preserve to permanently protect the region, and to provide interim protection by opposing harmful industrial activities.

Rocky Mountain Recreation Initiative (CO)     $2000
Supports citizen input into agency off-road vehicle route designation, pressuring the BLM and Forest Service to restrict motorized vehicles from wildlife habitat and migration corridors.

San Bernardino Valley Audubon Society (CA)     $2000
Supports a lawsuit compelling San Bernardino County to protect species and habitat in the San Bernardino National Forest that are vital to the future of the forest.

Save the Scenic Santa Ritas (AZ)     $2500
Supports a grassroots campaign opposing new open-pit mines that would disrupt the ecological balance in the Patagonia and Santa Rita Mountains.

Sequoia ForestKeeper (CA)     $2000
Funds the Protect the Monument Enforcement Campaign, which works against logging and other activities that could negatively impact the Giant Sequoia National Monument.

Sitka Conservation Society (AK)     $2000
Continues funding for the Tongass Groundtruthing Project, which uses research and advocacy to shift timber companies from old growth logging to restorative logging.

Southern Appalachian Biodiversity Project (NC)     $2500
Supports Grandfather National Scenic Area Campaign, which galvanizes grassroots support for permanently protecting 25,000 acres of Pisgah National Forest from commercial logging, and advocates the passage of a Grandfather National Scenic Area designation from the U.S. Congress.

Upper Arkansas and South Platte River Project (CO)     $2200
Continues funding Wild Connections, a science-based grassroots advocacy plan to establish a network of large, roadless reserves connected by habitat corridors on the Pike-San Isabel National Forest.

Western Lands Project (WA)     $1000
Funds a coalition of grassroots groups working to monitor federal land exchanges and protect public wilderness from privatization and environmental degradation.

West Virginia Rivers Coalition (WV)     $1500
Funds a decade long campaign to protect more than 450 of West Virginia's most pristine headwaters, including hundreds of native trout streams.

Wilderness Watch (MT)     $2000
Continues support for protecting and restoring the Emigrant Wilderness, John Muir Wilderness, and Ansel Adams Wilderness in the High Sierras.

Wild South (AL)     $2500
Funds monitoring and forest restoration in the National Forests of Alabama to ensure improved watershed quality and native wildlife habitat.

Wildwest Institute (MT)     $2500
Funds the Public Lands Project, which protects and restores public lands and wildlife in the Northern Rockies through public outreach, media education, and restoration.