Western Environmental Law Center
For The Western Wildlife Corridor Project
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Amount$50,000
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Program
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Date Awarded11/16/2009
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Term12.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Strategies
Overview
This grant funds the Western Environmental Law Center (WELC) to evaluate, create and share new policies, plans and implementing projects that protect landscape connectivity and wildlife corridors in the West. WELC plans to work in conjunction with the Center for Large Landscape Conservation on this project. WELC intends to secure federal and state commitments to protect 3-5 new wildlife corridors and new commitments from federal land management agencies to include wildlife corridors in land plans. Ensuring connectivity between large ecosystems is an important part of our strategy to provide wildlife with the best opportunity to adapt to a changing climate. (New, $50,000/1; 40% of project budget)
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.westernlaw.org
Grants to this Grantee
for wildfire communications
The Western Environmental Law Center (WELC) safeguards the public lands, wildlife, and communities of the western U.S. in the face of a changing climate. This grant supports WELC’s efforts to communicate effective, science-based options for wildfire and forest management in the western U.S. (Substrategy: Wildfire)
for the Western Wildlife Corridor Project
The Western Environmental Law Center (WELC) seeks to create new policies and projects that connect large intact wild areas in the West, through wildlife corridors that enable animals to migrate safely. This renewal grant would support WELC’s work to protect wildlife corridors, secure new wildlife-safe highway crossings, and promote land management policies that are consistent across jurisdictional boundaries. WELC will focus its work on two important wildlife corridors, one in southwest Montana and a second one that spans the Colorado-New Mexico border.
for the Western Wildlife Corridor Project
The Western Environmental Law Center seeks to create new policies and projects that connect large intact wild areas in the West through wildlife corridors so animals can migrate safely. This renewal grant would support the Center’s work to protect wildlife corridors and public land planning processes in southwest Montana and southwest Colorado.
