If we had another year like 2007, we'd be pleased. But we won't settle for that. With the expanding realities created by global warming and mass extinction, the pressure is on and there's no room for status quo. You can count on Conservation Northwest to continue to push hard to expand conservation initiatives, but we'll do it in a way that broadens the tent. It is critical that we safeguard the precious old-growth forests and wild areas from the Coast to the Rockies for wildlife and for our own future, while building common cause with the local communities whose future is intertwined with the health of this landscape.

• Columbia Highlands. We hope to see the Columbia Highlands blueprint go to the next level of support for more forest restoration, thinning of unnaturally dense forests, and wilderness designations. Our test will be to productively engage the motorized recreation community and other local interests.
• A burst in legislative activity. Look for old-growth forest protection and restoration legislation, and federal funding to support grizzly recovery efforts.
• Protecting habitat for the western gray squirrel. We'll be keeping an eye out to see where funding for the Cross-Base Highway might pop up next, and working to ensure that the highway does not get built across the last remaining large piece of oak woodland prairie in Puget Sound.
• Conservation Northwest will work more closely with ranchers, hunters, and other rural and urban partners throughout Washington. We'll finalize a wolf management plan and leverage the funding needed to implement it. With the help of our members and volunteers, we'll ensure that fishers successfully return to their old-growth forest home the Olympic Peninsula for the first time in decades. We’ll encourage the US Fish and Wildlife Service to implement their grizzly recovery plan for the North Cascades.