The Conservation Alliance sent checks totaling $400,000 to 17 organizations working to protect wild places throughout North America. The donations marked the Alliance’s final disbursal of funding for 2007, and represent the largest single funding round in the organization’s history. The Alliance has invested $800,000 in conservation projects in 2007, and this round brings total giving to $6 million since the organization’s founding in 1989.


This round of grants will secure new wilderness designations in Pennsylvania, Colorado, Nevada, Montana, Oregon and Idaho; protect wild rivers in California, Utah and Oregon; improve off-road vehicle regulations in the Adirondacks; establish a new National Scenic Area in North Carolina; and protect spectacular ancient forests in Canada.