The Nature Conservancy
For The Tongass Timber Transition Project
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Amount$110,000
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Program
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Date Awarded7/20/2011
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Term12.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Strategies
Overview
Since 1951, the Nature Conservancy has worked to preserve the plants, animals, and natural communities that represent the diversity of life on Earth by protecting the lands and waters they need to survive. This grant would support the Conservancy's Alaska chapter in its efforts to change timber harvest practices in the 17 million-acre Tongass National Forest. The Alaska chapter seeks to reduce current reliance on cutting old-growth trees and increase focus on harvesting younger second-growth forests. The goals of the grant are to secure an administrative directive from Tongass Forest managers emphasizing second-growth timber harvest, ensure the forest is managed to protect its unique salmon spawning streams, and build community support for sustainable forest and salmon management.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.tnc.org
Address
4245 North Fairfax Drive, Suite 100, Arlington, VA, 22203-1637, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for the Building a Conservation Ethic in the West program
The Nature Conservancy works around the world to protect ecologically important lands and waters for nature and people. In the Western U.S., it collaborates with community partners to educate the public and policymakers about the need to enhance public funding for conservation of public lands and waters, and sustainable working lands. (Western Conservation Substrategy: Advance Conservation Protections)
for wildfire resilience in the West
The Nature Conservancy works around the world to protect ecologically important lands and waters for nature and people. In the Western U.S., it collaborates with community partners to educate the public and policymakers about the need to enhance public funding for wildfire resilience. (Substrategy: Wildfire)
for an analysis of funding mechanisms for wildfire resilience
The Nature Conservancy works to conserve the lands and waters on which all life depends. This grant supports a project to better understand federal-level funding mechanisms that can lead to increased action to reduce the risk of extreme wildfire events in the Western United States and beyond, while increasing ecosystem and community resilience to wildfire. This research will help inform the Hewlett Foundation’s goal of leveraging additional resources for wildfire resilience across the American West. (Western Conservation Substrategy: Wildfire)
