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Learn more about Conservation Northwest and what it’s doing to protect the Columbia Highlands at these links.
Columbia Highlands Initiative
Columbia Highlands: Exploring Washington’s Last Frontier

Conservation Northwest

The disappearance of old growth forests may be one of the most serious environmental issues today. Tall, cool and centuries old, these forests and other wild lands provide habitat for animals and plants and help keep our rivers and air clean.

Conservation Northwest works to protect and connect old growth forests and other wild areas — from Washington’s coastline to British Columbia’s Rocky Mountains. The Campion Foundation provides general operating funds to this highly effective and innovative group to support its conservation campaigns.

This funding is assisting Conservation Northwest in its Columbia Highlands Initiative, an effort to secure congressional wilderness designation for more than 300,000 acres in northeastern Washington and restore 200,000 additional acres of forestlands. The group is also working to protect the endangered mountain caribou, which roams the inland temperate rainforest of southern British Columbia, and to provide a rural buffer for the North Cascades by establishing a Cascades-to-Chuckanuts zone in Washington’s Whatcom County.

With a top-notch staff of experienced conservation advocates, Conservation Northwest not only leads these important efforts, but also continues to develop new and creative approaches to protecting Washington state’s wild lands.