Over the last 15 years, numerous fossil fuel infrastructure proposals have threatened healthy ecosystems across Oregon and Washington with new and expanded coal terminals, oil-by-rail facilities, and fracked gas projects. Each of the projects, as proposed, would have endangered natural resources and systems, increased air and water pollution, and put inequitable burdens on vulnerable populations …
State environmental policy groups provide leadership and accountability for environmental issues like clean water, clean air, and healthy communities. They play instrumental roles in crafting local solutions to regional problems, mobilize people power for policy advocacy, and have key working relationships with federal, state, and local elected officials. These groups build power for the environment …
Fifty years after grizzly bears were protected under the Endangered Species Act, the status of the great bear remains in question due to ongoing habitat loss and high mortalities. Bears are spread out mainly between two populations in the Northern Continental Divide and the Great Yellowstone Ecosystems, with much smaller numbers in the Selkirks of …
Over 840 million acres of lands and waters – more than one-third of the country – are owned collectively by U.S. citizens and managed by the federal government. They are held in trust for the American people, and primarily managed by four agencies – the National Park Service, Bureau of Land Management, US Forest Service, and …
Over 50 percent of the healthy wild salmon runs in Washington are on the Olympic Peninsula. Washington’s coastal rivers may be one of the last remaining places where cool waters will allow salmon to continue to thrive in the lower 48 in the future. However, thousands of miles of degrading forest roads, aging culverts, and …