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As not only the blog editor, but the systems administrator here, I have been pulled away by a major database project this month, so you may have noticed the blog has been quiet. I was going to come back to the blog today with a look at our recent staff retreat, where we spent two intensive days strategizing about how best to ensure connected wild areas create healthy ecosystems for wildlife and people across the future. That was the plan, anyway...
Holy melting glaciers, Batman!
Ecologists have insisted for decades that our parks and protected areas are too small and disconnected to satisfy long-term conservation needs – way before Al Gore took to the stump with his Graphs of Disaster. Is the tide finally turning for the fate of wildlife in the face of global warming? Some new plans from the powers that be may just mean yes.
Solstice gifts for all creatures, great and small
It seems that the Solstice and upcoming holidays are going to be good to wildlife big and small, and right about now we feel a bit like Santa’s elves!
Clearly Copenhagen for wildlife
This week and last, the world's leaders and representatives have been meeting in Copenhagen on climate change. Curbing climate change is vital not only to millions of people but to thousands of species of wildlife, from grizzly bears to mountain caribou.
It's hardly Twilight for Washington's wolves
Did you hear? Big, howling, wolves are loping through the forests of Washington, prowling the dark corners, fighting vampires...um... I mean... OK, so the wolves of Twilight: New Moon are a tad more human and mythological than the average Canis lupus, but the return of real wolves howling in Washington after decades of silence is nothing less than legendary. Can we plan for the wolves that really roam the state, as opposed to those the reign in our imagination?
Thanks for a wild Northwest!
Like many of you, I spend the holidays with family, enjoying the beauty of Washington's wildest places and my time with family. I am thankful for the mossy, old forests of the Olympic Peninsula I can wander with my nieces, and Conservation Northwest is thankful for supporters like you! What will you be thankful for this season?
Northwest wildlife hits hottest list
We all want to be on the "A List," unless that list puts you in the running for the wildlife most negatively affected by climate change. A report from the Endangered Species Coalition puts some of our favorite wildlife in the hot seat.
Think your holiday travel is hard?
When the weather outside is frightful, news on the latest wildlife success sure is delightful. Over the last 2 winters, nearly 50 fisher came to the Olympic Peninsula from BC, with a little help from Conservation Northwest and our partners. This year, even more of these elusive forest mammals are starting their journey to bolster northwest biodiversity, and their trip makes the airport this Wednesday look easy. But, in the end, their travels and the travails of those finding our newest residents are well worth the effort, biologically speaking.
Does south Puget Sound prairie outweigh drive time?
Does it make sense to build a highway through what's left of Washington's remaining native oak woodland prairie, prime habitat for 19 plants and animals facing extinction, including streaked horned lark, water howellia, Mazama pocket gopher, and Taylor's checkerspot butterfly? Does it make any more sense when you add in that the highway won't do much for drive times or carbon emissions as our state is supposed to be making major changes to address climate change?
Adopt a wilderness!
The Colville National Forest of northeastern Washington has oodles of wild roadless forest that deserve wilderness protection. We need you to adopt a wilderness.
