Fund For Wild Nature

2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000

1999 1998 1997 1996

2004 Fund for Wild Nature Grantees - First-time grantees (13 of 33) are italicized.
All projects are within the US unless otherwise specified.
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Alameda Creek Alliance (CA) $1000

Monitors and influences the Habitat Conservation Plan being prepared by the City of San Francisco for the upper Alameda Creek watershed. This plan controls public land and water supply activities encompassing important habitat for numerous listed species, including steelhead trout.

BARK (OR) $2000

Supports the Place Based Campaign to protect key areas of Mount Hood National Forest, currently facing 48 proposed timber sales targeting old growth. Specific support went to public outreach and education, field monitoring, environmental law enforcement, and policy advocacy efforts.

Big Sky Conservation Institute (MT) $1500

Creates Geographic Information System (GIS) maps contrasting high fire-hazard areas with lands of high ecological value that will be used by activists working to improve federal forest and fire policies.

Biodiversity Conservation Alliance (WY) $2000

Supports three important lawsuits to protect wilderness and wildlife in three threatened locations: the Red Desert, the Powder River Basin and the Sand Creek Roadless Area of the Black Hills.

Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project (OR) $2500

Challenges the Bush Administration’s circumvention of environmental laws and public involvement in public lands management. Activities incorporate public education, field documentation and litigation, including the first Emergency Status Determination, post-fire-salvage and green timber sales.

Buckeye Forest Council (OH) $2000

Funds a Forest Monitoring Project to document and expose poor management of state forests and the Wayne National Forest. Also works to instill Ohioans with a sense of responsibility for their forests while increasing their knowledge of forest ecology.

Butte Environmental Council (CA) $1500

Supports the California Vernal Pool Habitat Protection Program to increase public knowledge and overturn a federal decision to not list nearly one million acres of California’s vernal pools as critical habitat.

Center for Native Ecosystems (CO) $2500

Supports the Species and Ecosystem Defense Program that fosters the recovery of imperiled species across the Southern Rockies, including the lynx, Preble’s meadow jumping mouse, Graham’s penstemon and the white-tailed prairie dog.

Central Sierra Environmental Resource Center (CA) $2000

Supports fieldwork, monitoring, public education & outreach, and media activities to stimulate local awareness and involvement in key environmental issues, decisions and policies directly affecting wildlife in the central Sierra Nevada region.

Chiricahua-Dragoon Conservation Alliance (AZ) $1500

Assists a new educational newspaper to be used as an outreach tool to build awareness, appreciation and effective alliances to protect the Sonoran and Chihuahuan bioregion.

Coal River Mountain Watch (WV) $2200

Funds The Clean Water Act Protection Roadshow designed to educate and mobilize public support for legislation to limit the mountain-top coal mining, which has destroyed hundreds of thousands of acres of Central Appalachia’s biologically diverse hardwood forests and hundreds of miles of headwater streams.

Colorado Wild (CO) $2000

Assists a campaign to prevent a massive development proposal at the base of the Wolf Creek ski area thereby preserving a critical wildlife corridor, rare species, wetlands, air quality and the integrity of nearby wilderness areas in Colorado’s Southern Rocky Mountains.

Eastern Forest Defense Action Camp (OH) $1500

Builds on previously successful skills training camps devoted to teaching activists strategic, nonviolent, direct forest defense skills with a focus on threats specific to six Eastern regional forests: Northwoods (Great Lakes and New England), Central & Southern Appalachia, Great Coastal Swamps, the Piedmont, and the Allegheny Plateau.

Environmental Flying Services (AZ) $1500

Since it founding in 1991, EFS has flown over 6500 hours for forty U.S. and Mexican agencies, institutions, and non-profit organizations to help establish protected areas, monitor and protect species, and gather biological information. Funding supports airplane maintenance.

Firefighters United for Safety, Ethics and Ecology (OR) $2500

Supports progressive, vocal, wildland fire fighters seeking reform of forest and fire management policies. This project will prepare and distribute reports on fire suppression, fuels management, pre-fire thinning, post-fire salvage and community wildfire preparation issues from a wildland firefighter’s perspective.

Genetic Engineering Action Network (MA) $1500

Assists an affiliate drive to develop, strengthen and sustain grassroots groups and coalitions that work against genetic pollution. Also supports the Safe Agriculture Initiative to prevent the commercialization of new genetically engineered (GE) developments, including wheat, rice, and pharmaceutical crops.

Gila Conservation Coalition (NM) $2000

Operates an outreach campaign to protect the Gila River from a major water development project. Also supports the education of New Mexico communities in the ecological values, current threats and cost-effective municipal and agricultural water management alternatives to promote conservation and watershed restoration in the Gila and San Francisco Rivers.

Grand Canyon Wildlands Council (AZ) $2000

Supports outreach, educational events and media coverage to foster the recovery of the gray wolf in the Grand Canyon bioregion.

Grant County Conservationists (OR) $1000

Continues assistance for The Keystone Project that works to redirect National Forest management to embrace conservation biology and focus on keystone species as ecosystem health indicators. Local keystone species are beaver, salmon and bull trout.

Great Plains Restoration Council (TX) $2000

Supports the necessary groundwork to prepare for a Southern Plains land purchase that will strategically advance the Buffalo Commons concept.

Los Padres Forest Watch (CA) $1500

Supports a grazing reform program that aims to protect biodiversity and watersheds by significantly reducing public land grazing along California’s Central Coast.

Northwest Resistance Against Genetic Engineering (OR) $1500

Continues support to increase public awareness and participation on the issue of GE foods and GE trees. This coalition specifically targets Safeway Co., encouraging them to stop using GE ingredients, and Starbucks Co., to promote the sale of organic, shade-grown, fair-trade coffee.

Northwoods Wilderness Recovery (MI) $1500

Enables the Front 40 Media Project, a collaborative effort to counter threats of metallic sulfide mining in Menominee County (MI), to produce an education and outreach newsletter, re-vamp a website for greater interactivity, and build capacity among the collaborators.

Oxygen Collective (OR) $2000

Supports the Collective that traveled the West Coast aboard a 40-foot biodiesel bus for a three-week Fire & Forests Roadshow. They stopped at 10 universities to inform and encourage opposition to the Bush administration’s plan for the largest timber sale in modern history -- the “Biscuit Salvage Sale” in southern Oregon.

Prairie Dog Coalition (CO) $1500

Supports a central resource in distributing scientific data on current prairie dog and prairie ecosystem campaigns, management plans, protection efforts, and efforts to enhance cohesiveness within the prairie wildlife protection community.

Rocky Mountain Recreation Initiative (CO) $2000

Supports efforts to protect roadless areas and wildlife habitat by reducing the number of off-road vehicle routes approved in three Forest Service and four Bureau of Land Management travel plans.

Southern Appalachian Biodiversity Project (NC) $1500

Enabled an Endangered Species Act Roundtable to bring together scientists and activists working on regional species protection strategies.

Southern Plains Land Trust (CO) $1500

Bolsters both general operating and outreach activities for short-grass prairie restoration and protection, including wider newsletter distribution, event hosting, and maintaining effective communication systems.

Stop GE Trees Campaign (VT) $1500

Works to prevent the release of genetically engineered trees into the environment by building grassroots constituencies for national and regional resistance to GE tree research and test plots.

True Food Network (CA) $1500

Distributed The True Food Grocery Guide that lists those foods in supermarkets that are GE, non-GE, or in transition. The Guide enables consumers to choose their foods safely. This Network has 40,000 members of consumers, farmers, activists, and others dedicated to stopping GE foods.

Vermont Genetic Engineering Action Network (VT) $1500

Completed creation of a statewide network of anti-GE groups by increasing outreach in western Vermont.

Wild Farm Alliance (CA) $1500

Traveled to meetings on reframing the future of agriculture and native ecosystems. The Alliance offers neutral ground for conservationists and agriculturalists by promoting high standards of biodiversity protection while acknowledging the need for farmers to earn a living from the land.

Wild South (AL) $1500

Documents and monitors the process of forest restoration on Alabama National Forests to create a model that promotes forest restoration throughout the South.