Celebrate Earth Day with your local land trust. Work parties, hikes, family-friendly scavenger hunts — you name it!– Earth Day events are happening all over Washington state. Learn how you can get involved!
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Protecting Washington’s working forests is critical to the economic, social, and ecological well-being of Washington’s communities. WALT is excited to announce that the Senate just passed a community forest bill (SB 5873), with tremendous bipartisan support.
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Imagine, you’ve got the perfect funder for your project, the grant deadline is a week away, and you desperately need the money now. So how on earth do you write a winning proposal? Allow me to help. I’m a concise and creative grant writer with six years’ experience raising funds from both public and…
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At a time when Puget Sound health is dire, land trusts are stepping up to the plate to protect and restore the beaches, streams, estuaries, and bluffs that our communities and wildlife depend on. Land trusts are doing impressive work in their communities, but they cannot do it alone. Our state elected officials are key…
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Over the course of the training, there was a growing realization among us all: climate change is something that threatens our collective mission to preserve important conservation values for the public good.
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“It’s great to help land trusts set in motion an ecological forestry legacy and to know that these projects will endure,” says NNRG’s Kirk Hanson.
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Source: Land Trust Alliance
Women in conservation experience gender bias just as women in other fields do. What does it look like, and what can we do about it?
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Hailing from the rolling hills of the Palouse, WALT’s new ED Nick Norton brings “compassion, creativity, diplomacy, and grit.”
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WALT endorses Initiative 1631, a Washington State ballot measure that addresses carbon pollution and community resiliency in the face of a changing climate.
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Source: Guest post by WALT Volunteer Kaia Boonzaier
With their new online tool, PCC Farmland Trust is not only expanding opportunities for Puget Sound farmers, but also playing a crucial role in conserving and protecting Washington’s precious farmlands.
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