Outdoor Related Businesses Invest $950,000 to Secure Protections for Wild Places
October 1, 2020
The Conservation Alliance Contributes a Total of $2M in Grants in 2020
BEND, Ore. (October 1, 2020) –The Conservation Alliance sent grants totaling $950,000 to organizations working to protect wild places throughout North America. Funding will help conservation groups secure new protections for remote wild lands and waters, and acquire close-to-home trails and open spaces.
The Conservation Alliance works with 250 member companies to identify important conservation projects that seek to protect wildlife habitat and access to recreation. Each member company contributes annual dues to a central grant fund, and funding is disbursed twice annually to the grassroots groups working to secure these protections.
New Conservation Alliance grantees are collectively working to protect 53 million acres and 125 river miles, and acquire one climbing area. Projects funded in this grant cycle are as follows:
|
Organization |
Project Name | Grant |
| Access Fund | Thumb Open Space |
$30,000 |
|
Appalachian Mountain Club |
Campaign to Preserve Maine’s Intact Forest: Protecting the Pleasant River Headwaters Forest | $45,000 |
| Audubon Alaska | Protect the Arctic Refuge Campaign |
$50,000 |
|
Cowiche Canyon Conservancy |
Uplands Capital Campaign | $45,000 |
| CPAWS Manitoba | Seal River Watershed Indigenous Protected Area Initiative |
$45,000 |
|
CPAWS Yukon |
More than just Gold: Protecting the Dawson Region | $25,000 |
| Friends of Cedar Mesa | A Pivotal Year for Bears Ears |
$30,000 |
|
Friends of Nevada Wilderness |
Military Expansion Defense Campaign for Desert Refuge / Churchill County | $20,000 |
| Frontera Land Alliance | Lost Dog Conservation Easement |
$10,000 |
|
Grand Canyon Trust |
Permanently Protecting the Grand Canyon and Surrounding Public Lands from Uranium Mining | $45,000 |
| Greater Yellowstone Coalition | Yellowstone Gateway Land Acquisitions – Permanently Protecting the Border of Yellowstone National Park |
$50,000 |
|
Green Mountain Conservancy |
Deer Run Nature Preserve Phase 2 | $35,000 |
| Idaho Conservation League | Protecting the High Divide |
$10,000 |
|
Klamath Siskiyou Wildlands |
Expand the Wild Rogue | $40,000 |
| Methow Valley Citizens Council | Great Northwest Forest Campaign |
$45,000 |
|
Montana Wilderness Association |
Blackfoot Clearwater Stewardship Project | $45,000 |
| New Mexico Wilderness Alliance | Greater Chaco Protection Campaign |
$45,000 |
|
Ohio Environmental Council |
Black Diamond Backcountry Campaign | $40,000 |
| Oregon Desert Land Trust | Connecting Central Oregon’s Backcountry |
$45,000 |
|
Oregon Natural Desert Association |
Protecting Oregon’s Owyhee Canyonlands | $50,000 |
| Park County Environmental Council | Protecting the Wild and Working Landscapes of Montana’s Crazy Mountains |
$40,000 |
| San Juan Citizens Alliance | San Juan Mountains Wilderness |
$40,000 |
|
Trout Unlimited
|
Sportsmen for the Ruby Mountains Project |
$40,000 |
|
Whatcom Land Trust
|
Skookum II Conservation Corridor |
$45,000 |
| Wilderness Workshop | Achieving Permanent Protection for the Thompson Divide |
$35,000 |
Total $950,000
Three organizations received Conservation Alliance funding for the first time: Cowiche Canyon Conservancy, Frontera Land Alliance and Green Mountain Conservancy. The Conservation Alliance has awarded a total of $2,000,000 in grants in 2020—equal to the total funding awarded in 2019.
“We reached our grant-making goal for 2020 by retaining and attracting new member companies,” said Brady Robinson, Executive Director at The Conservation Alliance. “We are hopeful this cash infusion, coupled with our advocacy efforts, will help move some of these important conservation projects across the finish line by the end of the year.”
For a complete overview of each grant, please visit: conservationalliance.com/seasons
About The Conservation Alliance:
The Conservation Alliance is an organization of like-minded businesses whose collective contributions support grassroots environmental organizations and their efforts to protect wild places where outdoor enthusiasts recreate. Alliance funds have played a key role in protecting rivers, trails, wildlands and climbing areas throughout North America. Membership in the Alliance is open to all companies who care about protecting our most threatened wild places for habitat and outdoor recreation. Since its inception in 1989, The Conservation Alliance has contributed more than $24 million, awarded 720 grants, helped to protect more than 73 million acres of wildlands and 3,575 miles of rivers; stop or remove 35 dams; designate five marine reserves; and purchase 17 climbing areas. For complete information about The Conservation Alliance, visit www.conservationalliance.com.
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