Wilderness Society
For Support Of The America's Great Outdoors Staffing Project
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Amount$150,000
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Program
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Date Awarded11/15/2011
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Term16 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Strategies
Overview
The Wilderness Society and the Nature Conservancy are detailing two of their staff people to the United States Department of Agriculture and the Department of Interior under the Intergovermental Personnel Act to help the departments develop their policy recommendations for a new public lands protection initiative called America's Great Outdoors. The initiative will identify sensitive ecosystems on Western public and private lands in need of better protection. It will also develop the strategies necessary to ensure the lands are preserved. These two grants will support the costs incurred by The Society and the Nature Conservancy to detail their staff people to the Departments of Agriculture and Interior.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.wilderness.org
Address
1801 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Suite 200, Washington, DC, 20036, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for general operating support
The Wilderness Society’s mission is to unite people to protect America’s wild places. This Western Conservation grantee organization works to make public lands a solution to the climate and extinction crises — for everyone — and grow an inclusive conservation movement to ensure all people benefit equitably from public lands. Guided by science, the Wilderness Society applies policy analysis, outreach, and communications expertise to protect and defend nature for all. It works toward enduring conservation gains that transcend politics by building meaningful relationships nationally and in communities. (Substrategy: Advance Conservation Protections)
for public lands protection opportunities
Many administrative actions to protect public lands were delayed until after the 2012 elections. These include potential new national monument designations and whether to lease sensitive wildlife habitat for oil and gas development. This grant to The Wilderness Society would support the organization's efforts to secure protective decisions for ecologically important public land during the post-election season. The Wilderness Society is the only national conservation organization whose sole focus is the nation's public lands. The Society will use communications, outreach and organizing and public education as tools to help accomplish its protection goals.
