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Boys and Girls Club
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Monies will be used to support monthly environmental education training for staff in conjunction with the Leadership in Environmental Awareness and Protection Program. This program works with young people and the economically disadvantaged.
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$1,000 |
Chuckanut Conservancy
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Monies will be used for public outreach to educate citizens about the last unprotected coastal forest on Washington’s inland sea in the Chuckanut Mountains. Logging and development threaten this area. |
$3,000 |
Clark Fork Coalition
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Research, design, and production costs for "Low Flows, Hot Trout: Climate Impacts in the Clark Fork Watershed" |
$2,000 |
Conservation Leaders Network
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Recruiting effort to attract up to 20 pro-environment members to the National Association of Counties (NACo) Public Lands Committee.
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$2,000 |
Conservation Northwest
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Monies will be applied to obliterate 1.5 miles of unnecessary and unmaintained section of the Upper Kachees River Toad in Wenatchee-Okanogan National forest. The project will include a re-contouring and follow-up planting. Once this project is completed, two remote cameras will be installed to monitor wildlife and human usage. The data collected will be useful as educational tool on the value of restoring roads. |
$4,500 |
| Earth Corps |
Supplies, food, and equipment for experiential camping trips for adolescent participants in the Park Corps program. |
$1,000 |
Harbor Wildwatch
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Monies will be used to support an environmental education program west of the Narrows Bridge in Kitsap County. |
$2,000 |
I-90 Bridges Wildlife Coalition
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Monies will support a landscape scale habitat connectivity project which allows animals to move within the ecosystem and provides for genetic exchange with populations outside the ecosystem – a vital component of carnivore recovery. This project will advocate for high quality wildlife standards in the project design along with public education. The proposal this grant application is associated with is the Cascade Carnivore Working Group – a coalition consisting of the Western Transportation Institute, North Cascades National Park, and the Insight Wildlife Management. Money will support a collection of genetic material from carnivore species by hair and scat collections. This is a small part of a very important project. |
$5,000 |
Kachemak Heritage Land Trust
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Outreach materials to education private landowners near or within tracts of coastal land on the Kenai Peninsula about the significance of their land and adjoining protected areas. |
$3,000 |
Merlin Falcon Foundation
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Production costs for publication of research findings on the Coastal Forest Melin and associated educational materials |
$5,000 |
Montana Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit
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Production of a prototype wolf howl box to be used for tracking gray wolf migration patterns in the North Rockies |
$2,500 |
Mountaineers
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Hikes for at risk kids in Kitsap County |
$1,820 |
Mountaineers
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Library - Staff Training |
$1,494 |
Mountaineers
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Library - Online Cataloging |
$2,654 |
Mountaineers
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New siding and windows for Kitsap Cabin |
$33,451 |
Mountaineers
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Library - Operating Funds |
$21,106
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Mountaineers
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Hikes for at risk kids program partnership with Washington State Parks and the Big Brothers Big Sisters Thurston County |
$5,740
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Mountaineers
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Signs for snow trails on FS property near Meany Lodge |
$1,300
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| Mountaineers |
Gold Creek signage - National Park |
$7,000
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Mountaineers
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Northwest Environmental Issues Course |
$1,650 |
Mountaineers
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South Sound Environmental Issues Course |
$1,000
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Mountaineers Books
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The Wild Edge: Baja to the Beaufort Sea |
$2,500 |
Mountaineers Books
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Yellowstone to Yukon: Freedom to Roam |
$2,500 |
Mountaineers Books
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Beyond the Trees: Life of the Tongass |
$5,000 |
Mountaineers Players
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Costumes - Beauty and the Beast |
$2,500 |
Mountaineers Players
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Kid Summer Camp Program |
$4,500 |
| Nature Vision |
Kids for Climate Protection 'Carbon Connection' Elementary School Program Curriculum
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$4,000 |
| Nooksack Salmon Enhancement Association |
Production and circulation of educational materials regarding six restoration projects along Whatcom Co. streams. |
$2,500 |
| North Cascades Conservation Council |
Grant is to support the addition to the North Cascades National Park. Monies will be used to ground truth proposed park additions, visiting sites and confirming or learning new information about man-made features. The money will support volunteer travel to project areas, technical assistance for GIS database production and printing of maps, and for production and printing of a brochure for community and elected officials education. |
$5,000 |
| Northwest Natural Resource Group (NNRG) |
Purchase of three forest inventory and field monitoring kits to be used by small woodland owners and to help promote environmentally responsible timber harvesting. |
$3,960 |
| Oregon Wild (formerly ONRC) |
Production of video and web-based campaign to support permanent protection of old-growth forests in the Pacific Northwest. |
$3,000 |
| Puget Creek Restoration |
Award will purchase equipment to train interns in the proper field sampling and analysis of water quality/macro invertebrate samples. The project area: Tacoma’s Puget and Mason Creeks. Student interns attend Clover Park Technical College. Data collected will be provided to the City of Tacoma, various state and Pierce County agencies, plus the Chambers/Clover Creek Watershed Council. |
$3,500 |
| Puget Soundkeeper Alliance |
This is an educational project with the goal to educate and motivate citizens, including non-traditional environmentalists. Project title: How Clean is the Water? Mountaineer Foundation grant monies will support the interactive mapping tool with zoomable maps of Puget Sound and locales of known water quality issues. Also displays locations of resources of risk. |
$3,000 |
| Sightline Institute |
Monies will aid in the process of converting the “Cascadia Scorecard” into an accessible, on-line format. Information on the web leverages access to this information enormously. |
$1,000 |
| Southern Rockies Ecosystem Project/I-90 Wildlife Bridges Corridor |
Support for 2008 "Washington Wildlife Crossings Field Course" on transportation planning and road ecology |
$1,000 |
| The Lands Council |
Through a novel collaboration effort – Northeast Washington Forestry Coalition (Vaagen Bothers Logging, Columbia Cedar, Ponderay Newsprint) have helped direct the Forest Service away from roadless and old-growth logging. This has led to the negotiation of legislation that contains sustainable logging and new wilderness in the Colville National Forest. Presently there is not designated wilderness in the Colville National Forest. The monies will be used to support staff with the goal of creating prescriptions and policies for forestry that will be used by the Northeast Washington Forestry Coalition. |
$5,000 |
| The Nature Consortium |
Purchase and planting of native trees along Duwamish River in West Seattle |
$3,000 |
| Townsend K-12 School District #1 |
Equipment, labor, and supplies for Bio-control Enterprise and Educational Project using biocontrol agents in order to reduce/eliminate blanket chemical spraying of noxious weeds. |
$4,000 |
| University of Idaho |
Research funds to support Adam Wells' PhD research examining patterns of habitat selection of mountain goats in the North Cascades |
$1,000 |
| Washington Rivers Conservancy |
Publication and distribution of "Landowners Guide to Washington Water Rights", intended to fill a critical gap in the understanding of Washington's complicated water laws and policies. |
$4,000 |
| Wolftree, Inc |
Funding for wilderness stewardship teams addressing 8 high-priority needs of the Three Sisters Wilderness over a 16-week period through summer and fall, 2008. |
$2,500 |
| Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation |
Printing of mussel identification guide "Freshwater Mussels of the Pacific Northwest" |
$2,500 |
| Total Funded 2008 |
$174,175 |
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