Outbound: Ecology
These links will take you to Internet sites maintained by other organizations and individuals interested in the outdoor and wilderness experience. Remember to bookmark our site before you venture off down these side trails so that you can find your way back.
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- Amazing Environmental Web Directory—Huge site with lots of categorized links. "Earth's biggest environmental search engine."
- American Prairie Foundation—Bozeman, Montana; phone: 406-585-4600.
- American Rivers
- Andrus Center for Public Policy—Phone: 208-426-4218.
- Animal Legal Defense Fund
- Arbor Day Foundation
- Association of Partners for Public Lands—Phone: 877-647-2775.
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- Bat Conservation International
- Biodiversity Conservation Alliance—Laramie, Wyoming; phone: 307-742-7978.
- Bioneers
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- Carbon Counter
- Center for Biological Diversity—520-623-5252. Protecting endangered species and wild places through science, policy, education, and environmental law.
- Center for Language and Ecology—Supporting research in ecological linguistics. Includes the online magazine "Language and Ecology" and resources for researchers.
- Center for the Study of Global Change—Maintains a strong commitment to interdisciplinary study and research. The Center sponsors a broad range of educational programs and research on global issues in the contemporary world, encompassing the effects of fundamental societal transformation, the impact of power on social and political life, problems of differentials in the access to resources, sustainable development, and the growing influence of nationalism and movements of cultural identity.
- Center of the American West—University of Colorado.
- Chemical Scorecard—The pollution information site.
- Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety—107 Cienega, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 87501. Phone: 505-986-1973; E-mail. Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety (CCNS) is an organization focused on increasing public awareness concerning the issues posed by radioactivity and the nuclear industry.
- Conservation Resource Center—Tax credit exchange program; Phone: 303-544-1044.
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- Defenders of Wildlife—Dedicated to the protection of all native wild animals and plants in their natural communities. Phone: 202-682-9400
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- Earth Day Network
- Earth Island Institute—Innovative action for the environment. Provides in-depth information and resources from their project network, award-winning journalism from the Earth Island Journal, and tools to address the environmental challenges we face.
- Earth Vision—Nature and soul communion. Spiritual ecology, exploring the wilderness within.
- Earthjustice—Phone: 202-667-4500. Headquarters, Oakland, California; phone: 510-550-6700. Denver office, phone: 303-623-9466.
- Earthwatch—Their mission is to promote sustainable conservation of our natural resources and cultural heritage by creating partnerships between scientists, educators, and the general public. They operate on a very simple notion: That if you fully involve the general public in the process of science, you not only give them understanding, you give the world a future. E-mail.
- EcoNet—Weekly updated news from the U.S. and world connecting people who are changing the world. They actively promote change toward a healthy society, one which is founded on principals of social justice, broadly shared economic opportunity, a robust democratic process, and sustainable environmental practices.
- EcoVersity—A nonprofit school that offers classes in earth-based vocations. Phone: 505-424-9797.
- Endangered Habitats League—Phone: 213-804-2750.
- Envirolink Network—Lots of information with lots of organizational links and daily news updates from the U.S. and the world. An online environmental community that acts as a comprehensive resource for individuals, organizations, and businesses working for social and environmental change.
- Environmental Defense
- Environmental Defense Fund—Good information on climate change, fisheries, and endangered species. Finding ways that work. This is a not-for-profit environmental advocacy group with four main goals: stabilizing the Earth's climate; safeguarding the world's oceans; protecting human health; and, defending and restoring biodiversity.
- Environmental Working Group—The Environmental Working Group (EWG) is a not-for-profit environmental research organization dedicated to improving public health and protecting the environment by reducing pollution in air, water and food.
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- Federation of State Conservation Voter Leagues—Phone: 206-441-3137.
- Floodplain Management Association—Phone: 602-506-4767.
- Forest Guardians—Phone: 505-988-9126.
- Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics
- Friends of the Earth—Friends of the Earth monitors the policies of institutions such as the World Bank and encourages them to think and act green. A national nonprofit advocacy organization dedicated to protecting the planet from environmental degradation; preserving biological, cultural, and ethnic diversity; and empowering citizens to have an influential voice in decisions affecting the quality of their environment, and their lives.
- FSEEE (Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics)—Phone: 541-484-2692. A group of Forest Service employees, both current and former, working to change the Forest Service's basic land-management policy. Their mission is to forge a socially responsible value system for the Forest Service based on a land ethic that ensures ecologically and economically sustainable resource management.
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- Glen Canyon Institute—Utah and Arizona-based group advocating the decommissioning of Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River; phone: 801-363-4450; E-mail.
- Global Warming Network
- Grand Canyon Trust—Dedicated to protecting and restoring the canyon country of the Colorado Plateau.
- Great Basin Mine Watch—Phone: 775-348-1986.
- Great Old Broads for Wilderness—P.O. Box 2924, 850 1/2 Main Street, Durango, Colorado 81302; phone: 970-385-9577; E-mail. The Great Old Broads for Wilderness is a national, grassroots nonprofit organization created in 1989 to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the Wilderness Act. Today there are Broads of all ages and both genders in every state in the union making their voices heard to protect America's last wild places.
- Greenaction—Phone: 415-248-5010.
- Green Peace—USA
- Green Tags USA
- Grist—An environmental news Web site.
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- Land Trust Alliance—Phone: 970-245-5811 or 202-638-4725.
- League of Conservation Voters—Phone: 202-785-8683. Environmental scorecards rate members of Congress on how they've voted on key issues. The political voice of the environment, this group works to make Congress more responsive to our environmental concerns.
- Leave No Trace—Center for Outdoor Ethics, P.O. Box 997, Boulder, Colorado 80306; phone: 303-442-8222; FAX: 303-442-8217. Concerned with backcountry ethics.
- Legal Environmental Assistance Foundation—Phone: 850-681-2591.
- Living Rivers—Moab, Utah, phone: 435-259-1063; in Scottsdale, Arizona, phone: 480-990-7839.
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- National Audubon Society—Info on Audubon's many campaigns for endangered species, forests, wetlands, and wildlife refuges.
- National Drought Mitigation Center—Phone: 402-472-6707.
- National Landscape Conservation System Coalition
- National Network of Forest Practitioners
- National Parks and Conservation Association (NPCA)—This long standing organization works toward preserving and upgrading our national parks and monuments. Address: 1300 19th Street, N.W., Suite 300, Washington, DC 20036; phone: 800-628-7275; E-mail.
- National Tree Trust—An organization that supports the planting, growing, and maintenance of trees in communities and along highways. Phone: 800-846-8733.
- National Wildlife Foundation—Education and action to keep the wild in our world. The nation's largest membership supported conservation group, uniting individuals, organizations, business, and government to protect wildlife, wild places, and the environment. Phone: 800-822-9919.
- Native Ecosystems
- Native Forest Network—Phone: 406-586-3885
- Natural Resources Defense Council—Legislative watch on environmental bills, political races, and how-to guides ranging from buying organic foods online to fighting airport pollution. The NRDC uses law, science, and the support of more than 400,000 members nationwide to protect the planet's wildlife and wild places and to ensure a safe and healthy environment for all living things. The earth's best defense.
- Negative Population Growth—Educates about the detrimental effects of overpopulation on the environment and quality of life. Jacques Cousteau said, "Population growth is the primary source of environmental damage."
- Northwest Environment Watch
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- Oil and Gas Accountability Project—P.O. Box 1102, Durango, Colorado 81301; Phone: 970-259-3353; FAX: 970-259-7514.
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- PEER—Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility is a private, nonprofit organization that provides support and services for government agency whistle-blowers. Phone: 202-265-7337.
- Platte River Endangered Species Partnership—Phone: 303-445-2096.
- Predator Conservation Alliance—Saving a place for America's predators. Works to conserve and restore ecosystem integrity by protecting predators and their habitats. Phone: 406-587-3389.
- Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility—Phone: 202-265-7337.
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- RangeBione: A Public Rangeland Almanac—A public rangeland almanac. An assemblage of natural resource and environmental links, tools, news, and views for improving the ecological conditions of public rangeland ecosystems.
- Real Climate—This blog seeks to provide a quick response to developing stories on our climate changes, and provide the context sometimes missing in mainstream commentary.
- Real Goods—A commercial site selling earth friendly products. They are trying to change the way America does business by espousing the traditional values of integrity, honesty, friendliness, wise resource use, and ingenuity.
- Red Rock Forests—90 West Center Street, Moab, Utah 84532; phone: 435-259-5640. A nonprofit organization.
- Red Rock Heritage Coalition
- Resources For The Future—Phone: 415-977-5500.
- Restore America's Estuaries
- Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute
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- Save Our Environment Action Center—A collective effort of the nation's most influential environmental advocacy organizations harnessing the power of the Internet to increase public awareness and activism on today's most important issues.
- Sierra Club—The 600,000-pluss-member Sierra Club is the largest grassroots environmental organization in the United States. Stay informed about issues in your state, plug into the online-activist network, or sign up for a club-sponsored trip. Phone: 415-977-5500.
- Sierra Fund—Phone: 530-265-8454.
- Sierra Nevada Alliance—Phone: 530-542-4546.
- Sierra Nevada Conservancy
- Sierra Nevada Forest Protection Campaign—Phone: 530-622-8718.
- Ski Area Environmental Scorecard
- Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance—Dedicated to the preservation of the outstanding wilderness at the heart of the Colorado Plateau, and the management of these lands in their natural state for the benefit of all Americans.
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1471 S. 1100 East, Salt Lake City, Utah 84105-2423
Phone: 435-486-3161 | E-mail - Moab Office
P.O. Box 968, Moab, Utah 84532
Phone: 435-259-5440 - Monticello Office
P.O. Box 401, Monticello, Utah 84535
Phone: 435-587-3636 - Washington, D.C. Office
122 C Street, NW, Suite 240, Washington, D.C. 20001
Phone: 202-546-2215
- Main Office
- Southwest Center for Biological Diversity—Protecting endangered species and wild places of western North America and the Pacific through science, policy, education, and environmental law.
- Southwest Forest Alliance—A coalition of more than 50 environmental groups in Arizona and New Mexico dedicated to charting a new course for the Southwest's eleven national forests.
- Student Conservation Association
- Sustainable Northwest—Building partnerships that promote environmentally sound economic development in the Pacific Northwest.
- Sustainable Resources—Phone: 303-998-1323.
- The Sopris Foundation—The Sopris Foundation is a small, non-profit, active family foundation that is dedicated to creating awareness of social, economic, environmental and population issues. Phone: 970-925-2521.
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- The Earth Times—Web newspaper on the human environment and related economic, humanitarian, and social issues.
- The Ecotravel Center
- The Forest Advocate
- The Green House Network
- The Nature Conservancy—The Nature Conservancy magazine and archive, press releases, and reports on conservation science. Saving the last great places. Together with communities, businesses, and individuals, they preserve precious places around the world. Forever.
- The Nature Conservancy: Oregon
821 S. E. 14th Avenue, Portland, Oregon 97214
Phone: 503-230-1221 - The Nature Conservancy: Washington
217 Pine Street, Suite 1100, Seattle, Washington 98101
Phone: 206-343-4344
- The Nature Conservancy: Oregon
- The Rainforest Action Network—Works to protect the Earth's rain forests and support the rights of their inhabitants through education, grassroots organizations, and nonviolent direct action.
- The Sonoran Institute—Phone: 520-290-0828.
- The Wilderness Society—Works to protect America's wilderness and to develop a nationwide network of wilderness through public education, scientific analysis, and advocacy. Their goal is to ensure that future generations will enjoy the clean air and water, wildlife, beauty, and opportunities for recreation and renewal that pristine forests, rivers, deserts, and mountains provide. Four Corners Office: 303-650-5818.
- The Wildlands Project—A group of conservation biologists and citizen conservationist activists devoted to developing a North American wilderness recovery strategy.
- Tread Lightly!—A national land use ethics program.
Suite 325-C; 298 24th Street; Ogden, Utah 84401; 801-627-0077; FAX: 801-621-8633. - Trust for Public Land—Phone: 406-443-4017.
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- United States Humane Society—Washington, D.C. Phone: 202-452-1100.
- University of Arizona Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research—Phone: 520-621-1608.
- University of Arizona / U.S. Geological Survey Desert Laboratory—Phone: 520-670-6821.
- University of Washington Climate Impacts Group
- Upper Green River Valley Coalition—Phone: 307-367-8472.
- Utah Public Lands—Good source of information on Utah environmental issues.
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- Water Watch
- Western Environmental Law Center—Eugene, Oregon; phone: 541-485-2471.
- Western Land Exchange Project—Research, outreach and advocacy for the reform of federal land exchange policy; E-mail.
- Western National Parks Association
- Western Regional Climate Center
- White House Council on Environmental Quality—Washington, D.C.; phone: 202-395-5750.
- Whitebark Pine Ecosystem Foundation
- Wilderness Information Network—Heightening the wilderness dialogue, worldwide. University and agency sponsored site about wilderness issues. Good background information.
- Wilderness Society: BLM Action Center—Phone: 303-650-5818 ext. 115.
- Wilderness Support Center—Phone: 970-247-8788.
- Wilderness Volunteers—Phone: 888-737-2888.
- Wildlife Society
- Worldwatch Institute
- Worldwatch Institute Consumer Guide—An online consumer guide that offers suggestions on how to shop more responsibly, for the sake of both the environment and your family's health. You can also find out about everything from buying better quality chocolate to learning where to recycle old DVDs and CDs.
- World Wildlife Fund—Together, we can leave our children a living planet. The world's largest and most experienced independent conservation organization with 4.7 million supporters and a global network active in some 100 countries. Their mission is to protect nature and the biological diversity that we all need to survive.
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- Zero Population Growth—Saving the world for our children. A national nonprofit organization working to slow population growth and achieve a sustainable balance between the Earth's people and its resources. They seek to protect the environment and ensure a high quality of life for present and future generations.
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