My name is Marc Gauthier, and I started at Conservation Northwest three months ago. I have been hired as the Cascades to ...

On a warm June afternoon, 5-year-old Kirby carefully set up a popsicle stand in her front yard. With hand-decorated signs and a big goal in mind, she was ready for business. But unlike most children ...

If you bike at Raging River, please help keep this crossing open for wildlife: avoid using the Milepost 27 undercrossing and drive to the south side of I-90 to access the trails. And if you know ...

Washington’s clean energy transition is essential – and must be planned with care. Across the Columbia Plateau, Conservation Northwest’s Sagelands Heritage Program is working in coalition to help ...

Across Washington, communities are once again facing the very real impacts of wildfire: evacuations, damaged homes and farms, displaced animals, dangerous smoke, uncertainty and loss. Our hearts are ...

In the early 2000s, the American West began experiencing large, unprecedented wildfires energized by a century of fuel accumulated from fire suppression. Understanding a new paradigm shift was needed, ...

Conservation Northwest’s 2026 Hope for a Wild Future Auction and Gala was a powerful celebration of community, conservation and the people who make this work possible. Thanks to the incredible ...

Conservation Northwest sincerely thanks our members, partners, and advocates who showed up, spoke out, and stayed engaged throughout the 2026 legislative session! Your voices continue to shape what’s ...

As federal disruption reshaped how partnerships functioned and limited what agencies could carry forward, Conservation Northwest and our allies kept stewardship moving in ways that delivered real ...

For nearly a quarter of a century, the Roadless Area Conservation Rule, commonly referred to as the Roadless Rule, has been a foundational component of American conservation policy. It protects ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced plans to rescind the Roadless Area Conservation Rule, a foundational conservation policy that has protected 58.5 million acres of undeveloped national ...

Every ten years, Washington’s Wildlife Action Plan gets a major update—and the next version is underway right now. Led by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW), the 2025 update will ...