Envir - Habitat, Forests, and Waters

Sunny Walter's Links to
Environmental Organizations that Protect
Habitat
(National & International)
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Organization	Mission
American Lands Alliance 726 7th Street, SE Washington, DC 20003 Lands or 202-547-9400	Mission: protect (and recover) North American native forest, grassland, and aquatic ecosystems; preserve biological diversity; restore watershed integrity; and promote environmental justice.
Care2.com, Inc. 535 Middlefield Road, Suite #200 Menlo Park, CA 94025 Care or 650-328-0198 Race for the Rainforest (generates a free donation to protect rain forests, prairies, and wetlands)	First and largest global community on the Web for environmentally conscious consumers. Partnered with The Nature Conservancy, the Wildlife Conservation Society, and others for online promotions; donates 10% of its revenue to environmental organizations.
Conservation International 2501 M Street NW, Suite 2000 Washington, DC 20037 Conservation or 202-429-5660 or 800-406-2306 eCards New URL 8/11!	Mission: conserve the Earth's living natural heritage, our global biodiversity, and demonstrate that human societies are able to live harmoniously with nature.
Earth Day Network Earthday Seattle office: 811 First Ave, Suite 454 Seattle, WA 98104 206-876-2000	Nonprofit coordinating body of worldwide Earth Day activities. Mission: promote a healthy environment and a peaceful, just, sustainable world by organizing events, activities, and annual campaigns.
Earth First (Strongly Activist) New URL 8/11! The Radical Environmental Journal PO Box 3023, Tucson, AZ 85702 520-620-6900	Earth First! is not an organization, but a movement. It is a belief in biocentrism, that life <the Earth> comes first, and a practice of putting our beliefs into action.
Earth Island Institute 300 Broadway, Suite 28 San Francisco, CA 94133 Earth Island or 415-788-3666 Take Action! International Project Directory	Mission: develop and support projects that counteract threats to the biological and cultural diversity that sustain the environment.
Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund 180 Montgomery Street, Suite 1400 San Francisco, CA 94104-4209 Earthjustice or 415-627-6700 Take Action! Newsroom Accomplishments! Seattle Regional Office: 705 Second Ave., Suite 203, Seattle, WA 98104 Earthjustice-WA or 206-343-7340 Urgent Cases	The law firm for the environment. For more than a quarter century, the Legal Defense Fund has represented hundreds of environmental clients, large and small, without charge. (one of my favorite Legal Action organizations)
Environmental Defense 257 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10010 Defense or 212-505-2100 or 1-800-684-3322 Action Center!	Nonprofit organization that links science, economics, and law to create innovative, economically viable solutions to today's environmental problems.
Izaak Walton League of America (IWLA) 707 Conservation Lane Gaithersburg, MD 20878 Izaak Walton, 301-548-0150, 1-800-453-5463 Action Alerts!	Mission: To conserve, maintain, protect and restore soil, forest, water and other natural resources; to promote opportunities for education of the public about such resources.
Greater Seattle Chapter 4000 95th Ave NE, Bellevue, WA 98004 425-455-1986	Puget Sound Chapter 4942 N. Bristol St., Tacoma, WA 98407 53-752-1780
LightHawk M & N Baldwin Bldg PO Box 653, Lander, WY 82520 LightHawk or 307-332-3242 LightHawk PNW Margaret Puckett, Pacific Region 33863 SE Terra Circle Corvallis, OR 97333 541-752-7808 or 541-760-2288 (cell) or mpuckette@lighthawk.org ..	Mission: work with and through more than 130 partner organizations each year, providing environmental flight services including pilots and aircraft, flight and route planning, and education and support in related areas. These areas include the use of flight in environmental campaigns, effective media flights, planning technical flights for image or data acquisition, and others. LightHawk conducts more than 900 flights for over 1800 passengers per year in nine countries in North and Central America.
National Parks & Conservation Association 1300 19th St., NW, Suite 300 Washington, DC 20036 NPCA or 202-223-6722 Take Action! NPCA Magazine (one of my favorite "Take Action" sites)	Mission: preserve National Parks; protect endangered wildlife, majestic scenery, and cultural sites; promote new parks; defend against pollution, development, and overuse.
Natural Resources Defense Council 40 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10011 NRDC or 212-727-2700 Earth Action Center! Victories! BioGems in Immediate Peril How to help 12 endangered wild places around the world BioGems Saved	Uses law, science, and the support of more than 400,000 members nationwide to protect the planet's wildlife and wild places and to ensure a safe and healthy environment for all living things.
The Nature Conservancy 4245 North Fairfax Drive, Suite 100 Arlington, VA 22203-1606 TNC or 800-628-6860 Washington State office 217 Pine St., Suite 1100 Seattle, WA 98101 TNC-WA or 206-343-4344 Places We Protect (WA) Places We Protect (OR) TNC Magazine	Mission: preserve plants, animals and natural communities that represent the diversity of life on Earth by purchasing and protecting the lands and waters they need to survive. (My favorite national habitat preservation organization)
Rails-to-Trails Conservancy (Western office) 26 O'Farrell Street, Suite 400 San Francisco, CA 94108 Rails or 415-398-4404	Mission: facilitate creation of multi-purpose public paths from abandoned railroad corridors - used for bicycling, walking, in-line skating, cross-country skiing, plus equestrian and wheelchair use.
Sierra Club 85 Second St., Second Floor San Francisco, CA 94105-3441 Sierra or 415-977-5500 Take Action! Sierra Magazine Where Nature Reigns (Russia’s ecological reserves; also see Wild Russia below)	Mission: explore, enjoy, and protect the wild places of the earth; practice and promote the responsible use of the earth's ecosystems and resources.
Eastern WA / Idaho office P.O. Box 552, Boise, ID 83701 Northern Rockies or 208-384-1023 Western WA office 8511 15th Ave. NE, Suite 201 Seattle, WA 98115 Cascade or 206-523-2147 Action Alerts	Columbia Basin Office 2703 Klemgaurd Road Pullman, WA 99163 509-332-5173 Northwest Field Offices 180 Nickerson St. Ste. 207 Seattle, WA 98109 206-378-0114
Student Conservation Association P.O. Box 550, Charlestown, NH 03603 SCA or 603-543-1828 Northwest office 1265 South Main St., Suite 210 Seattle, WA 98144 SCA Northwest or 206-324-4649	Volunteers and interns annually perform more than one million hours of conservation service in national parks, forests, refuges, and urban areas in all 50 states.
Trust for Public Land (TPL) Northwest Office 1011 Western Ave., Suite 605 Seattle, WA 98104 TPL-NW or 206-587-2447 .. Success Stories	Mission: preserve the unique landscapes that define the Northwest; create urban parks in ever-growing cities; protect farms, forests, and wilderness areas that sustain the region's character.
WildCanada.net (wildlands and wildlife) Box 8145, Canmore Alberta, Canada T1W 2T8 WildCanada or 403-808-2509 Action Center!	Mission: provide you with the best information, timing and tactics to help you influence federal, provincial and territorial conservation decision-making.
Wilderness Society 1615 M Street NW, Washington, DC 20036 Wilderness or 800-843-9453 Take Action! Wildalerts Legislative Northwest office 1424 Fourth Ave., Suite 816 Seattle, WA 98101-2217 Wilderness or 206-624-6430	Mission: safeguard America's wilderness heritage (634 million acres of forests, parks, refuges, wetlands, and deserts) for people and wildlife, through research, education, and advocacy.
The Wildlands Project PO Box 455, Richmond, Vermont 05477 Wildlands or 802-434-4077	Group of conservation biologists and citizen conservationists from across the continent (recently joined forces with the conservation journal Wild Earth). Mission: Produce The Journal of Wildlands Recovery and Protection.
Center for Russian Nature Conservation c/o WWF 1250 24th Street, NW Washington, DC 20036 Wild Russia or 202-778-9573 ..	Mission: assist and promote nature conservation efforts in Russia and other countries of the former Soviet Union, the region also known as northern Eurasia.
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.. Forests
Organization	Mission
Friends of the Trees Society P.O. Box 446, Bellingham, WA 98227 Trees or 360-738-4972	Mission: double the world's forests: double the area covered by trees; double the number of trees; and, most importantly, double the weight of the world's forest biomass.
Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics PO Box 11615, Eugene, OR 97440 Forest or 541-484-2692 Forest Magazine	Mission: forge a socially responsible value system for the U.S. Forest Service based on a land ethic that ensures ecologically and economically sustainable resource management.
Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics PO Box 11615, Eugene, OR 97440 Forest Service or 541-484-2692	Mission: forge a socially responsible value system for the Forest Service based on a land ethic that ensures ecologically and economically sustainable resource management.
National Forest Protection Alliance P.O Box 8264, Missoula, MT 59807 Forest or 406-542-7565	Mission: protect our forest heritage by ending the commercial logging on federal public lands nationwide.
Native Forest Network Western office PO Box 8251, Missoula, MT 59807 Native or 406-542-7343	Mission: protect the world's remaining native forest (temperate or otherwise) to ensure they can survive, flourish and maintain their evolutionary potential.
Rain Forest Action Network 221 Pine St., Suite 500 San Francisco, CA 94104 RAN or 415-398-4404	Mission: protect the Earth's rainforests and support the rights of their inhabitants through education, grassroots organizing, and non-violent direct action.
Rainforest Alliance 65 Bleeker St., New York, NY 10012 Rainforest or 212-677-1900 or 888-MY-EARTH	Mission: conserve tropical forests for the benefit of the global community.
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.. Rivers, Lakes, and Oceans
Organization	Mission
American Oceans Campaign (Oceana) 6030 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 400 Los Angeles, CA 90036 Oceans or 323-936-8242 New URLs 8/11! Current Campaigns	Mission: protect & preserve the vitality of coastal waters, estuaries, bays, wetlands, & deep oceans.
American Rivers (NW Office) 150 Nickerson, Suite 311 Seattle, WA 98109 Amer Rivers or 206-213-0330 River Action Center	Mission: protect and restore America's river systems and to foster a river stewardship ethic.
Oceana 2501 M Street, NW, Suite 300 Washington, D.C. 20037-1311 Oceana or 202-833-3900 Hot Issues Success Stories Sign Up for Action Alerts	Mission: protect the world's oceans to sustain the circle of life. (international movement to save the oceans through public policy advocacy, science and economics, legal action, grassroots mobilization, and public education)
Oceanic Resource Foundation 1700 Montgomery St, Suite 111 San Francisso, CA 94111 ORF or 888-835-9478	Non-profit, scientific research organization dedicated to the preservation of the global marine environment and marine biological diversity.
River Network 520 SW 6th Avenue #1130 Portland, OR 97204 River or 503-241-3506 or 1-800-423-6747	Mission: establish vigilant and effective citizen organizations in each of America's 2,000 major watersheds.
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