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In August, nearly two hundred Conservation Alliance member company representatives and friends gathered in Portland's Wallace Park for the Portland Backyard Collective, an event that brought together member company employees and local grantees for a day of environmental action. We welcomed friends from Columbia Sportswear, Yakima,  Icebreaker, Merrell, KEEN, REI, Nau, Horny Toad and BrandLive to split into volunteer teams, which then spread…

In October 2013, The Conservation Alliance invested $700,000 in grassroots conservation organizations. Each grant went to a project working to secure permanent protection for a specific threatened wild place. We direct organizations to use our funding over the course of a 12-month period. At the end of the grant period, we ask each group for…

I took away some unexpected encouragement from the two-week federal government shutdown that just ended. Headlines from the very first day of the shutdown focused on how frustrated people were to be barred from our National Parks, Wilderness areas, and other federal lands. I didn't hear near as much about Americans missing other government services….

Western Coast Environmental Law used our funding to assist the Gitanyow Hereditary Chiefs in drafting a protection plan for the Nass River watershed. As a result, the BC government created the Hanna-Tintina Conservancy, a 58,568-acre protected area that includes spawning habitat for the majority of the Nass River sockeye salmon, timbered hillsides, alpine slopes, riparian…

Here in Oregon, outdoor quality of life is paramount, and outdoor recreation means business. Direct consumer spending on outdoor recreation adds $12.8 billion per year to our state's economy, and supports 141,200 jobs. On a national level, outdoor recreation contributes more than $646 billion annually to the U.S. economy. As Oregon business leaders, we know…

On October 1, 2013, the federal government shut down due to a budget impasse in Congress and the inability to come to an agreement with each other and the president on funding for the government at the start of a new fiscal year. This shutdown has huge consequences for the National Park System and for…

Last Friday, I found myself driving to Boulder in the morning dark with snow coming down in all directions. I did my best to maintain calm, after all I was the one who assured everyone that we would soldier on with the Backyard Collective. Everyone, including five brave souls from Osprey who were literally going the extra…

The Conservation Alliance has released {worthWILD} Boulder-White Clouds, the sixth film in the worthWILD series. The film tells the story of the Idaho Conservation League's campaign to encourage President Obama to protect the Boulder-White Clouds as a National Monument. For more than a decade, Idaho Conservation League has been working to protect the Boulder-White Clouds as a…

Photo: Craig Kohlruss/The Fresno Bee   The Conservation Alliance urges Congress to come together to end the government shutdown, and re-open the crown jewels of America’s recreation lands. Companies that make and sell products for active use in the outdoors suffer when their customers cannot visit our National Parks, National Monuments, Wildlife Refuges, and other…

Last week, we traveled to the Northeast for our Backyard Collective in Concord, Massachusetts. Hosted by the Vibram USA team, volunteers from Eastern Mountain Sports, NEMO Equipment, ECCO & Revolution House Media commuted from near and far to participate in trail building and restoration organized by our partners at the Appalachian Mountain Club with the cooperation of Concord Land Conservation Trust and the Town of…