2018 Annual Report
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2018 Annual Report PHOTO BY ISAAC LEON FROST 2018 in Review The Conservation Alliance had another terrific year in 2018. Conservation faced serious political challenges, and we responded by contributing an all-time high $1.9 million to 55 conservation projects. That means that our 231 member companies pulled together like never before to fund the most effective conservation projects in North America. Our grantees delivered 16 conservation victories that protected 193,683 acres of land and five river miles, removed four dams, and purchased one climbing area. We work hard to identify BOB WICK effective conservation organizations that can succeed in any political climate, and are proud of our results in 2018. We also made grants from our Public Lands Defense Fund to organizations working to defend the integrity of our public lands system. These grants are being used to defend National Monument designations, the Roadless Rule, and other new threats to public lands posed by the Trump Administration. We supplemented our grants with advocacy efforts that demonstrate business support for protected wild places, bringing our voices to decision-makers in Washington, DC and on the local level. By collecting annual membership dues from outdoor industry companies, and granting 100 percent of those dues to organizations working to protect specific wild lands and waterways throughout North America, and supplementing those grants with business advocacy, we brought outdoor industry voices and resources to bear on important efforts to protect and defend our wild places. Here are the highlights from 2018. » We contributed $1,700,000 to 45 projects that seek to protect and restore North America’s wild places. » We granted another $200,000 from our new Public Lands Defense Fund to ten organizations working to defend existing protected public lands and core environmental laws, and to prevent the transfer of public lands to states or private ownership. BONNIE GESTRING » Our grantees delivered 16 important conservation victories that: protected 193,683 acres of land and five river miles; acquired one climbing area; and removed four dams. » We added 32 new members. » We added four members to our Leading Edge program, which gives individuals the opportunity to make significant contributions to The Conservation Alliance. » Through our advocacy program, we engaged our members in efforts to protect and defend our public lands and other special wild places. » We delivered a Public Lands 101 training to 27 member companies, educating 856 employees about the US public lands system. » We organized nine Backyard Collective events, on-the-ground stewardship projects designed to give employees of our member companies the opportunity to volunteer for our grantees. It is our honor to serve as a connecting point between the outdoor industry and the conservation community. We look forward to another exciting year in 2019. ANDREW BURR John Sterling EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR In 2018, The Conservation Alliance distributed $1.9 million to 55 organizations working to protect and defend wild places throughout North America. 2018 Grants Adirondack Council Ohio Environmental Council Elizabethtown, NY Columbus, OH $45,000 $40,000 Campaign for the Raquette-Jordan Boreal Wilderness ReCreation For All Campaign ADIRONDACK COUNCIL COUNCIL ADIRONDACK To acquire 10,000 acres of New York’s rare lowland boreal To acquire 60,000 acres in eastern Ohio that include 28 miles forest habitat, and upgrade natural resource protections for of hiking trails, 40 miles of horse trails, 10 miles of mountain an adjacent 12,000-acre state-owned parcel to create a new bike trails, 600 lakes and ponds stocked for fishing, six 22,000 acre Wilderness Area. developed campgrounds, and roughly 380 primitive campsites. Alaska Wilderness League Oregon Natural Desert Association Washington, DC Bend, OR $50,000 $45,000 Arctic Refuge Defense Campaign Campaign to Secure Lasting Protection for Oregon’s Owyhee To stop oil and gas exploration and development activities in Canyonlands and Hart-Sheldon Landscape CPAWS - QUEBEC - QUEBEC CPAWS the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. To secure lasting protections for two million acres of wilderness quality public lands in the Hart-Sheldon and ALASKA WILDERNESS LEAGUE LEAGUE ALASKA WILDERNESS American Whitewater Owyhee Canyonlands of eastern Oregon, close 50,000 acres to motorized travel, and modify 175 grazing allotments to improve Seattle, WA ecosystem health and recreational opportunities across 7.8 $10,000 million acres. Wild Olympics Campaign To designate 19 Wild and Scenic rivers and their major Oregon Wild tributaries representing more than 450 river miles, and Portland, OR 126,000 acres of Wilderness that protects key watersheds on $35,000 Washington’s Olympic Peninsula. This discretionary grant was awarded to AW as a result of the Wooden Nickel voting event at Oregon State Scenic Waterways Campaign The Conservation Alliance Breakfast in July, 2018. To protect Oregon’s Nehalem River and South Umpqua River as State Scenic Waterways, and to improve the State Scenic CRESTED BUTTE LAND TRUST CRESTED Audubon Alaska Waterways designation as a tool for conservation and the long- term protection of many of Oregon’s at-risk waterways. Anchorage, AK $35,000 Arctic Refuge Campaign Outdoor Alliance Washington, DC To ensure 1.5 million acres on the Coastal Plain of the Arctic $45,000 National Wildlife Refuge remain a wild, undeveloped landscape. Protecting North Carolina’s Mountain Treasures Campaign California Wilderness Coalition To secure 15-20 years of improved management for the 1.1 million acres of North Carolina’s Nantahala and Pisgah Oakland, CA National Forests — including protections for 48,000 acres $50,000 along 31 new eligible Wild and Scenic Rivers and 70,000 acres Northwest California Mountains and Rivers, and Central Coast of recommended Wilderness — and lay the groundwork for BOB ALLEN Wild Heritage Campaigns Congressional designations for these special places. JOHN HARBUCK To designate 570,909 acres of new Wilderness and 644 miles of Wild and Scenic Rivers; restore over 500,000 acres of San Juan Citizens Alliance public lands damaged by clearcutting and other development; Durango, CO designate 34,882 acres in two new scenic areas; and establish a $40,000 new recreation trail in California. San Juan Mountains Wilderness Campaign Canadian Parks and Wilderness To protect 60,000 acres in Colorado’s San Juan Mountains by expanding the Mt. Sneffels and Lizard Head Wilderness, Society – British Columbia designating McKenna Peak as the first desert Wilderness Vancouver, BC area in southwest Colorado, and protecting the Animas River $45,000 headwaters from future mining. KS WILD KS WILD Campaign to Establish New Protected Areas in Northern BC Save the Redwoods League To collaborate with the Kaska Dena Nation to protect 2.5 San Francisco, CA million acres of lands in Northern BC as National Parks, $50,000 Provincial Parks, and Indigenous Protected Areas. Protecting the Giants of Giant Sequoia National Monument To acquire the largest and last unprotected giant sequoia Canadian Parks and Wilderness property in the world — a 522-acre property within California’s Society – Quebec Giant Sequoia National Monument that contains the fifth Montréal, Quebec tallest tree in the world, 300 ancient giant sequoias, and a $35,000 swimming hole. Magpie River Protection Campaign To permanently protect 180 miles of Quebec’s Magpie River Sierra Club BC and 640,000 acres of its watershed. Victoria, BC $20,000 Climbing Resource Access Securing Permanent Protection for the Flathead River Group – Vermont Valley Campaign Richmond, VT To designate 100,000 acres in culturally-appropriate $40,000 conservation designations, and designate 750,000 acres of Bolton Dome Conservation Campaign Wildlife Management Areas in British Columbia’s Flathead BENJAMIN DRUMMOND River Valley. To acquire the 45-acre Bolton Dome climbing area in Vermont. Sierra Forest Legacy Columbia Land Trust Garden Valley, CA Vancouver, WA $30,000 $35,000 Campaign to Protect Roadless Areas and Wild and Scenic rivers in Klickitat Canyon Conservation Campaign the Southern Sierra Nevada To acquire the 3,900-acre Mt. Adams-Klickitat Canyon To establish protections for ten new wilderness areas totaling Conservation Phase III project area, completing the final phase more than 328,000 acres, Backcountry Management areas of a 10,000-acre conservation project that benefits recreation, totaling 415,000 acres, and nine rivers totaling 121 miles as Wild wildlife, and habitat connectivity along the Wild and Scenic and Scenic Rivers by participating in the planning process for Klickitat River in Washington. California’s Sequoia and Sierra National Forests. SKYBIRD FOREVER Conservation Colorado BRAD CARLSON The Nature Conservancy – North Carolina Denver, CO Durham, NC $45,000 $40,000 Continental Divide Campaign Citatel Tract, Black River Preserve Campaign To pass the Continental Divide Wilderness and Recreation To acquire 1,790 acres of land adjacent to North Carolina’s Black Act, permanently protecting 96,000 acres of public lands in River, including wetland forest, longleaf pine forests, and some Colorado, including new Wilderness designations and the of the oldest bald cypress trees in the world. This project will country’s first National Historic Landscape at Camp Hale. provide a foundation for establishing a new state park. Crested Butte Land Trust The Ocean Foundation Crested Butte, CO Washington, DC $40,000 $20,000 Long Lake Land Exchange