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Links
Info. Links
Conservation Organizations
- IrelandOaks.com
- project soliciting sponsors from Irish communities throughout the world to
restore the ancient native Oak Forests of Ireland.
- Forests
Forever - working to protect and enhance the forests and wildlife
habitat of California through educational, legislative and electoral
activities.
- American
Forests - citizens working for healthy and sustainable community and
rural forest ecosystems since 1875, home of the Global ReLeaf environmental
campaign.
- American
Lands - for forest activists working to stop logging of pristine
wildlands and to protect biodiversity on the National Forests and public
lands.
- Ancient
Cross Timbers Project - the Cross Timbers form an ecotonal mosaic
between the deciduous forests of the eastern US and the tall grass prairies
of the southern Great Plains.
- Association
for Forest Development and Conservation - aims to protect forests from
fire, encourage volunteer work, and promote sustainable development and
environmental awareness.
- Cascadia
Forest Alliance - works to protect native natural forests in the
Portland, Oregon area and the Eagle Creek watershed.
- Cedars
for the Au Sable - Northern white-cedar planting and protection project
on Michigan's Au Sable River.
- Colorado
Wild - works to halt environmentally damaging ski area expansions,
logging, and motorized recreation to protect wildlife in the forests of
Colorado.
- Dysart
Defenders - working to save the last .004 percent of the remaining
ancient forests left in Ohio from the impact of pending mining activities.
- Earth
Forest - creating a forest in New Zealand, owned by people from all over
the world.
- Eastern
Old-Growth Clearinghouse - working to further the preservation and
restoration of old-growth forests in eastern North America.
- Environmental
Protection Information Center - working to protect biodiversity and
ancient forests on the North Coast of California.
- Forest
Conservation Council - works to protect and restore the native
biological diversity of forests and woodlands throughout the United States.
- Forest
Ethics - dedicated to protecting the ancient rainforests of British
Columbia and endangered forests of North America by redirecting U.S. markets
toward ecologically sound alternatives.
- Forest
Information For Western Australia (FIFWA) - established to expose the
destruction of Western Australia's old growth forests.
- GapSucks
- information about clearcutting in Mendocino County. Includes a petition
and discussion room.
- Global
Forest Watch - provides information on logging, mining, and other
development activities within and around frontier forests as, or before, it
happens.
- Goongerah
Environment Centre - independent organisation dedicated to protecting
the remaining old growth forests of the region.
- Green
Light Trust - promotes environmental education through positive action:
running workshops for UK schools, planting woodland in local communities,
and saving rainforest communities in Papua New Guinea.
- Intertribal
Timber Council (ITC) - a nation-wide consortium of Indian Tribes, Alaska
Native Corporations, and individuals dedicated to improving the management
of natural resources of importance to Native American communities.
- Irish
Woodworkers for Africa (IWFA) - supports sustainable development and the
wise use of natural resources, especially wood.
- Loomis
Forest Fund - raisings funds to purchase endangered Lynx habitat for
permanent protection.
- Merck
Forest & Farmland Center - environmental education organization
offering hiking, camping, summer camp programs, and a newsletter.
- National
Audubon Society Forest Habitat Campaign - includes action alerts, fact
sheets, news, and other information of interest to forest activists.
- National
Forest Protection Alliance (NFPA) - dedicated to ending commercial
logging on National Forests and all federal public lands.
- Native
Forest Council - grassroots organization working to preserve America's
publicly owned land from resource extraction.
- New
Forests Project - people-to-people, nonprofit environmental organization
established in an effort to curb deforestation in developing countries.
- Northwest
Ancient Forests - Help save our ancient forests from the US Forest
Service and timber industry.
- Northwest
Timber Workers Resource Council - a non-partisan coalition dedicated to
economically, scientifically sound and economically feasible forest
management practices.
- Operation
Green Leaves - dedicated to the environmental education of the global
Haitian community and reforestation of the island nation of Haiti.
- Oregonians
for Labor Intensive Forest Economics (OLIFE) - grass-roots, non-profit
PAC aimed at educating the public about the ecological, spiritual, and
commercial values of forestlands.
- Plant-a-Tree
- sponsors pay for tree planting in response to user mouse clicks.
- Project
Crimson - national conservation program sponsored by Carter Holt Harvey
seeking to rescue the native New Zealand pohutukawa and rata flowering tree
species.
- Save
America's Forests - has sponsored national legislation to change the
U.S. Forest Service charter from timber extraction to forest stewardship.
- Save
The Forests - dedicated to saving Western Australia's old growth forests
from logging and clear felling.
- Save
the Redwoods League
- Sempervirens
Fund - a private, nonprofit land conservancy dedicated to protecting
coast redwood land and making that land available for public enjoyment.
- Trees
for the Future - initiates and supports environmentally beneficial
self-help projects.
- Trees
for the Planet - working to preserve and protect the natural functioning
of forest ecosystems.
- Umpqua
Watersheds, Inc - opposing clearcutting, logging of old growth forest,
excessive road building, and other forms of industrial logging in the Umpqua
Basin.
- Woodland
Trust - dedicated to the protection of our native woodland heritage.
- Zero
Circles Project - blend of art, spirit and environmental politics to
help end commercial logging on public lands, operated by Daniel Dancer under
the auspices of Interspecies Communication Inc.
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