Central Cascades Resilience

Our Central Cascades Watersheds Restoration program works to restore public lands north and south of Interstate 90 that are vital to wildlife movement between Mount Rainier National Park and the Alpine Lakes Wilderness. Learn more at: www.conservationnw.org/our-wo...
This is a focused complement to our ongoing Forest Field Program in watersheds spanning both sides of the Cascade Crest. Our Forest Field Program has a much longer history east of the Cascades, while this program is building relationships in the Puget Sound region, including watersheds that provide clean water to urban areas such as South Seattle and Tacoma.
For the past 20 years, we have focused on maintaining and restoring habitat connectivity in the “bottleneck” around Snoqualmie Pass that is the primary linkage between Washington’s north and south Cascade Mountains. Through The Cascades Conservation Partnership, we purchased and protected 45,000 acres of private forest threatened with development that is now public land, and through our I-90 Wildlife Corridor Campaign we led a coalition to successfully advocate for more than twenty wildlife crossings to allow animals safer passage, while also leading wildlife monitoring and habitat restoration in key areas near the interstate.
Now, in this new Central Cascades Watersheds Restoration, we turn our attention to restoring quality habitat on the vast adjacent public lands for wildlife to live and move through this landscape, and for people to sustainably enjoy this important piece of our Northwest natural heritage near to growing communities.

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