Fund For Wild Nature

2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000

1999 1998 1997 1996

2001 Fund for Wild Nature Grantees - First-time grantees are italicized.
All projects are within the US unless otherwise specified.
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Alliance for Sustainable Jobs & the Environment (OR) $3000

A network of labor and environmentalists, ASJE mobilizes opposition to extending NAFTA through the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas by developing a common understanding of FTAA as a tool of the hemispheric corporate agenda.

Asheville Global Report (NC) $750

Asheville Global Report is a weekly activist newspaper that provides readers with news and commentary on the environment, labor, human rights, peace, and justice.

Ballona Wetlands Land Trust (CA) $2000

To produce a color brochure about the Ballona Wetlands on the edge of Los Angeles and the potential for preserving the entire 1,087 acres of this precious ecosystem as a wildlife refuge and public park.

Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters (CA) $1500

This funding supports grassroots organizing, public education, and citizen empowerment to ensure permanent protection for the hotly contested Headwaters Forest Reserve, some of the last old-growth redwoods on the planet.

Bella Coola Valley Women's Group (BC) $3000

A project that brings together a diverse grassroots resistance to corporate attempts to expand mining, remove water, and build a deepwater port in the Bella Coola Valley on the midcoast of British Columbia. The area is one of the last vestiges of wild nature, as well as sovereign Nuxalk Nation territory.

Beyond Biodevastation (CA) $3500

To support the fifth in a series of international grassroots gatherings on issues of genetic engineering, the patenting of life, and the corporate control over food.

Biodiversity Legal Foundation (CO) $2500

This grant assisted ongoing legal actions, research, and public education efforts to protect over 50 severely imperiled native plant and animal species, challenge illegally promulgated rules and orders of the Bush Administration, and distribute, at no charge, various BLF guides for successful activist strategies.

Buckeye Forest Council (OH) $2000

For the Buckeye Forest Council’s Monitoring Campaign. Funds focused on preventing a clearcut on the Dean State Forest that threatens the federally endangered Indiana bat.

Buffalo Field Campaign (MT) $3500

As buffalo leave the protections of Yellowstone National Park, they are shot by state livestock agencies to -safeguard domesticated cows from alleged diseases. BFC works to protect the last wild, free roaming buffalo in the United States.

Canadian Ocean Habitat Protection Society (Nova Scotia) $2000

This project will establish a museum-like facility to house an extensive collection of coldwater coral specimens for conservation education. Little is known about the ecological complexity of the hundreds of species of coldwater coral inhabiting the water of the Eastern seaboard region.

Cascadia Wildlands Project (OR) $2000

For the Legacy Forests Campaign, which monitors environmentally destructive projects on public lands in the Pacific Northwest and offers education and organizing with interpretive hikes, presentations, and other outreach tools.

Center for Native Ecosystems (CO) $2500

To provide critical information and fill data gaps on key species for regional activists in the southern Rocky Mountains and plains through the Species Activist Guide Project.

Cold Mountain, Cold Rivers (MT) $3000

To assist a lawsuit to prevent the hazing and capturing of native buffalo, a practice that disrupts the nesting and breeding of federally protected bald eagles and trumpeter swans on public lands in the Yellowstone ecosystem.

Committee for Idaho's High Desert (ID) $2400

Funds produced a brochure to educate the public about threats to Idaho’s deserts from public land livestock grazing.

Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (PA) $3500

In support of the Corporations and Democracy Program which will continue to assist Pennsylvanian municipal governments in adoption of local laws prohibiting corporate involvement in agriculture, and to stimulate corporate charter revocation proceedings through the state Attorney General.

Earth First! Journal (AZ) $2000

To assist in the production and mailing of the Journal.

Ecology Center (MT) $2500

To distribute the film Killing Coyote to activist groups for use as a fundraising and organizing tool, and to state fish and game boards and rural public libraries for educational uses. Killing Coyote documents predator control as carried out by governmental agencies, individuals and private organizations.

Elaho Earth First! (BC) $2000

To run a portable Info Café and a press office in Vancouver, British Columbia. Elaho EF! protects the old-growth and endangered species habitat of the Upper Elaho Valley in southwest B.C. from clearcut logging by InterFor Corp.

Environmental Flying Services (AZ) $2000

EFS is a one woman, one airplane, two-country organization, with a simple objective: to provide an essential tool for activists working in Mexico to protect wildlife and save ground. Sandra Lanham was recently awarded the "genius grant" from the MacArthur Foundation in recognition of her role in providing otherwise unavailable information to government agencies and conservationists.

Food Not Lawns (OR) $2000

To support workshops and presentations about natural farming, permaculture, food politics, native edible plants, deep ecology, biodiversity, seed saving, appropriate technology, and community organizing.

Friends of the Clearwater (ID) $1500

Funding for implementation of the Off-Road Vehicle Monitoring Project in roadless areas of Idaho’s Nez Perce and Clearwater National Forests. Specifically, this grant paid travel expenses, maps, food and film for the volunteers doing fieldwork.

Granby Wilderness Society (BC) $1500

For presentations in France, Germany and England on the endangered Granby Grizzly. Unlike the United States, grizzly bears in are not protected in Canada. Europeans make up a significant percentage of the British Columbian tourist market and many tourism agencies have called for travel boycotts until the grizzly is protected.

Grant County Conservationists (OR) $1000

For The Keystone Project which pursues solutions to the biodiversity crisis by focusing on keystone species such as beaver. Funds helped prepare a conservation biology alternative to forest management plans for three national forests in eastern Oregon.

Green Fuels Project (CA) $750

To support a proactive effort in the fight against ecological devastation caused by oil companies worldwide. Green Fuels promotes small-scale community production of biodiesel fuel from waste vegetable oils and organically farmed plant sources.

Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center (OR) $3500

To produce materials describing threats to the biological diversity of the Klamath-Siskiyou ecoregion. These materials are designed to facilitate citizen activism by providing opportunities to address off-road vehicle abuse in roadless areas, the persecution of carnivores, the continued destruction of public and private forest lands, and the impacts of agricultural irrigation on endangered salmon habitat.

Lomakatsi Restoration Project (OR) $2400

To publish an educational, ecology-based forest restoration handbook that provides biocentric forestry models to educate people about restoration forestry and fire ecology guidelines designed for ecosystem and wildlife protection in the Pacific Northwest.

Medicine for Activists Seeking Health & Healing (OR) $2500

In support of scholarships for ten activists to attend a ten-day training course to certify environmental activists as Wilderness First Responders. The training includes the industry standard 76-hour course taught by one of the leading instructors of Wilderness Emergency Medicine.

Mendocino Earth First! (CA) $1000

To organize support locally and nationally for the long-awaited trial in the civil rights lawsuit against the FBI and Oakland Police. This case stems from the prejudicial police investigation of the 1990 bombing of Redwood Summer organizers Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney.

Native Forest Network (MT) $1000

To document the negative impacts of snowmobiling on public lands in the Northern Rockies as part of the Last Refuge Campaign. Evidence gathered will be used to seek restrictions on motorized recreation on public lands.

Northwest Resistance Against Genetic Engineering (OR) $3500

General support grant to promote a responsible, sustainable, and just use of agriculture and science through market-based pressure, education, community building, advocacy and action.

Oregon Forest Research and Education Group (OR) $2000

Seed money to facilitate independent research and surveys by citizens to reveal violations of habitat guidelines and to establish better protection on public lands.

Oregon Wildlife Federation (OR) $1500

For The State Forest Organizing Initiative to build the first localized, grassroots campaign to reform the management of Oregon’s state forests.

Predator Defense Institute (OR) $2000

To improve and expand the newsletter, Predator Press. PDI works to protect native predators, stop government killing programs, and remove poisons and traps from public lands.

Public Lands Without Livestock (NY) $2200

To educate the public through live presentations and internet-based displays about the environmental impacts and tax burdens of livestock production on federal public lands.

Red Rock Forests (UT) $2000

To improve the travel and management plans for the La Sal and Abajo mountain ranges of southeastern Utah. And to protect all the wilderness and roadless character of these ranges that connect critical watersheds of the Canyonlands Basin.

Rocky Mountain Recreation Initiative (CO) $2000

For printing and distribution of a report documenting the use and abuse of off-road vehicles (ORVs) in the Southern Rockies. The report focuses on habitat fragmentation, wildlife security, and noise pollution that ruin traditional backcountry experiences.

San Bruno Mountain Watch (CA) $2000

To protect and restore endangered species habitat on San Bruno Mountain and to involve the community of the San Francisco Bay area in the preservation effort. According to renowned conservation biologist Dr. E. O. Wilson, San Bruno is considered one of 18 global biodiversity ‘hot spots’ in need of immediate protection.

San Luis Valley Ecosystem Council (CO) $1500

For the Roadless Area Inventory Project in conjunction with the Southern Rockies Forest Network. The project involves computer mapping and provision of a baseline data inventory and mapping of the Rio Grande National Forest to bolster off-road vehicle management.

SINAPU (CO) $1500

To protect several species of native carnivores from indiscriminate killing by federal and state agencies and individuals. Sinapu supports the national Coalition to End Aerial Gunning of Wildlife, aimed at halting the government’s widespread airborne assault on predators.

Smith River Preservation Project (CA) $2000

The Inholding Enhancement Program seeks to protect nearly 35,000 acres of private lands surrounded by the Smith River National Recreation Area. Encouraging restoration and non-motorized recreation, the Program would prohibit logging, except for low-yield, low-impact practices, all mining and off-road vehicle use, road building and subdivisions, and the use of pesticides.

Superior Wilderness Action Network (MN) $2500

General support of SWAN’s ongoing efforts to: develop greater community awareness and participation in protecting Lake Superior’s Northwoods ecosystems; organize public support for protection of public lands; counteract anti-environmental initiatives; and continue mapping the Northwoods Bioreserve system.

Urban Wilds Project (CA) $1500

To produce a resource guide for Urban Gardeners containing interviews, stories, strategies and plans for growing food, creating wild places and developing sustainable appropriate technologies in the city. Stories illustrate how communities can gain access to urban land for gardens and use those gardens to fight poverty, hunger and environmental injustice.

Victory Gardens Project (ME) $1000

To teach food-growing skills and low-impact living to disenfranchised urban and rural community members coming to Maine to live on and work the land.

Western Land Exchange Project (WA) $1500

To conduct outreach activities in all eleven states monitored for land trades and to increase membership, diversify the donor base, and broaden the geographic scope covered.

The Xerces Society (OR) $2500

To protect monarch butterflies and other endangered invertebrates. Specific tactics include: stopping the EPA from re-authorizing genetically engineered Bt corn, conducting scientific status reviews, submitting petitions for imperiled invertebrate species and creatively mobilizing public support for invertebrate species.