The Conservation Alliance announced recipients of its Winter 2008 funding cycle. Seventeen groups were awarded a total of $450,000, or half what the organization will grant this year. Recipients and the amount they were awarded are:



  • American Whitewater (Cullowhee, NC )  $25,000
  • Appalachian Mountain Club (Boston, MA) & Trust for Public Land (Montpelier, VT)  $30,000
  • Audubon Alaska (Anchorage, AK)  $30,000
  • Campaign to Save Roan Plateau (Carbondale, CO)  $20,000
  • Canadian Parks & Wilderness Society (Ottawa, ON) $30,000
  • Cascade Land Conservancy (Seattle, WA)  $30,000
  • Colorado Mountain Club (Carbondale, CO)  $20,000
  • Colorado Wild (Durango, CO)  $20,000
  • Conservation Northwest (Bellingham, WA)  $25,000
  • Greater Yellowstone Coalition (Bozeman, MT) $30,000
  • Idaho Conservation League (Boise, ID)   $20,000
  • Northern Alaska Enviromental Center (Fairbanks, AK)  $30,000
  • Oregon Natural Desert Association (Bend, OR)  $30,000
  • Southern Appalachian Forest Coalition (Asheville, NC)  $30,000
  • Trout Unlimited Alaska Program (Juneau, AK)  $30,000
  • WaterWatch of Oregon (Portland, OR)  $25,000
  • West Virginia Wilderness Coalition (Morgantown, WV)  $25,000