Ecoregional Assessments developed by The Nature Conservancy and other partners provide useful information to people working to conserve Washington’s biodiversity. The assessments provide regional scale, biodiversity-based context for conservation efforts. A new website now makes these tools easy to access.
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Invasive species are one of the most serious threats to Washington’s biodiversity. The recently created Washington Invasive Species Council seeks to manage these “global hitchhikers” through a cooperative, collaborative, and strategic effort.
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Farmers needed a new tide gate; wild salmon in the Snohomish River needed better habitat. A conservation partnership that benefits both agriculture and wildlife is underway in Snohomish County Drainage District 13, near Everett, Washington.
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Margaret Rader and Pete Holm have embraced a family tradition of stewardship on their farm in southwestern Thurston County, in the Puget Trough ecoregion of Washington. They were raised on Holm Farm when their parents ran it as a dairy. Their grandparents bought the land—nearly 100 acres bounded by an ox-bow of the Black River—in the 1920s.
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What does the City of Bainbridge Island have in common with Ghana, Mexico, Qatar, South Africa, and Uganda? Probably more than we might think, but one thing is for sure: all these places have been selected for pilot projects by the Business and Biodiversity Offset Program.
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Dynamic and diverse, ecological transition zones are frequently nature’s laboratory for trying out new solutions. Now one such area, the Tieton River Canyon, is also the site of an innovative partnership between public and private landowners.
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We are especially pleased to profile Peter Goldmark. Peter ranches 8,000 acres in the Okanogan Valley, about evenly divided between wheat and pasture. He not only maintains natural wildlife habitat on his land, but is committed to maintaining its soil, native grasses, and other forms of biodiversity.
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This pilot project focuses on a specific geographic area within the Biodiversity Network: the Puyallup River watershed. Within the watershed, the Pierce County Biodiversity Alliance will focus on two areas of biodiversity richness, both located along the White River.
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This 18-month project is intended to develop a shared community vision for how biodiversity conservation can be integrated with the economic and social needs of the North Central Washington region, including Okanogan, Douglas, and Chelan Counties, and the Colville Indian Reservation.
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