The Klamath Riverkeeper received $20,000 for two campaigns to protect and restore the Klamath River. “Bring the Salmon Home” aims to remove four of the six Klamath dams, which deny access to over 350 miles of spawning habitat upstreamRecent campaign activities include: 1) filing two petitions to the Regional and State Water Boards to control PacifiCorp’s Dam pollution; 2) spearheading efforts to get toxic algae listed as a pollutant and PacifiCorp as a polluter; 3) helping to monitor for reservoir and toxic algae pollution; 4) organizing media and public outreach events for dam removal. For “Save the Klamath Salmon and Steelhead,” KR has been tracking and challenging actions affecting endangered Coho Salmon within the Scott and Shasta Rivers and main-stem Klamath River. These actions include: 1) challenging watershed wide take permits for endangered Coho Salmon; 2) challenging lack of fish passage at the Dwinnell reservoir on the Shasta River and Iron Gate reservoir on the Klamath; 3) investigating illegal water withdraws and unscreened diversions on the Scott and Shasta Rivers, along with the upper basin tributaries, and; 4) working with to KS Wild to mitigate threats to water quality from road run off by documenting sediment discharges and petitioning to get the Lower Klamath listed as impaired for sediment.

Klamath Siskiyou Wildlands Center

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Ashland, Oregon

KS Wild received $20,000 to preserve wilderness-quality lands, old-growth forests, and riparian habitat across more than five million acres of public land in northwest California and southwest Oregon. As the Bush Administration ends its tenure, the Program is largely focused on challenging Administration legal threats to the Northwest Forest Plan, particularly the Spotted Owl Recovery Plan, its intention to cancel the “Survey and Manage’ provisions within the Endangered Species Act, and the BLM’s Western Oregon Plan Revisions that would open up old-growth and roadless forests to commercial logging. KS Wild’s conservation strategy is three-fold: 1) Public Lands Monitoring defends roadless areas and old-growth forests from damaging timber sales, off-road vehicle abuse, and excessive cattle grazing and road-building projects through project tracking, comments, field monitoring, and strategic appeals and litigation; 2) Issue-oriented campaigning advocates for the protection of intact roadless areas, protection of threatened and endangered species, additional wilderness designation, and ecologically-driven redirection of land management activities through multi-stakeholder collaboration efforts; and, 3) Education & Outreach involves educating the public, non-traditional allies and elected officials about the importance of functioning ecosystems, the threats to these ecosystems, and restorative alternatives to bad management.

Klamath Siskiyou Wildlands Center

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Ashland, Oregon

KS Wild received $20,000 to preserve wilderness-quality lands, old-growth forests, and riparian habitat across more than five million acres of public land in northwest California and southwest Oregon. As the Bush Administration ends its tenure, the Program is largely focused on challenging Administration legal threats to the Northwest Forest Plan, particularly the Spotted Owl Recovery Plan, its intention to cancel the “Survey and Manage’ provisions within the Endangered Species Act, and the BLM’s Western Oregon Plan Revisions that would open up old-growth and roadless forests to commercial logging. KS Wild’s conservation strategy is three-fold: 1) Public Lands Monitoring defends roadless areas and old-growth forests from damaging timber sales, off-road vehicle abuse, and excessive cattle grazing and road-building projects through project tracking, comments, field monitoring, and strategic appeals and litigation; 2) Issue-oriented campaigning advocates for the protection of intact roadless areas, protection of threatened and endangered species, additional wilderness designation, and ecologically-driven redirection of land management activities through multi-stakeholder collaboration efforts; and, 3) Education & Outreach involves educating the public, non-traditional allies and elected officials about the importance of functioning ecosystems, the threats to these ecosystems, and restorative alternatives to bad management.

National Public Lands Grazing Campaign

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The National Public Lands Grazing Campaign (NPLGC), headed by Andy Kerr, was awarded $20,000 to end destructive grazing in the west through grazing permit buyouts. In 2007 the campaign will mail 25,000 letters to federal grazing permitees/ lessees touting at least two legislated buyouts and inviting them to pursue their own buyout opportunities by referring them to appropriate local and regional conservation groups. Likewise, NPLGC will continue advising conservation groups on how to communicate with ranchers, negotiate buyout terms, draft legislation, and promote the deal to Congress. NPLGC also plans to prepare a confidential memorandum for use by groups describing the policy, legal, political, and social nuts and bolts of voluntary federal grazing permit/lease retirement.

Northcoast Environmental Center

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Arcata, CA

The Northcoast Environmental Center received $20,000 to conduct an Instream Flow Review Project to ensure adequate water flows for Chinook salmon and other native fish prior to dam removal on the Klamath River. More than 350 miles of former spawning beds, now inaccessible to salmon, lie upstream of four dams that are currently the focus of a “relicensing” process between the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the dam owners, PacifiCorp of Portland, Oregon. Simultaneously, twenty-six independent stakeholders are negotiating with each other over a variety of issues including water allocations, habitat restoration, and funding. As a stakeholder, NEC will contract with some of the West’s top in-stream flow analysts and fisheries biologists to conduct a scientific peer review of in-stream flow analysis contained in the Klamath Dam Settlement Framework. The output of this scientific review will provide Settlement Parties with an independent analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the models, assumptions, and settlement flows all in one document -- facilitating a decision-making process and allowing parties to inform their constituencies of the pros/cons of the Settlement Agreement.

Pacific Forest Trust

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San Francisco, California

The Pacific Forest Trust (PFT) received $20,000 for the “Cascade Siskiyou National Monument Forestlands Initiative.” Support from the Weeden Foundation over the past two years enabled PFT to acquire 4,750 acres within the Monument planning area. With the initial acquisitions now complete, PFT is working closely with the BLM –through education and constituency building- to ensure the acquired lands are successfully added to the 53,000 acres already in public ownership. When transferred to the BLM, these lands will increase the protected base of the Monument by more than 20 percent. To build the constituency needed to influence key BLM staff members and members of Congress, PFT will engage in: 1) leading tours of the property for key BLM staff, local politicians, and community members; 2) disseminating updated publications and other education materials, highlighting urgent threats and other conservation opportunities on private land within the planning area, and; 3) creating and deepening partnerships with organizations such as Soda Mountain Wilderness Council, the Wilderness Society, and Trout Unlimited (all Weeden grantees). Weeden support will also help defray the holding and management costs PFT currently incurs on the 4,750 acres; this work includes forest and alpine meadow restoration activities.

Soda Mountain Wilderness Council

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Ashland, OR

The Soda Mountain Wilderness Council received $20,000 to protect the still threatened Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument (CSNM) area. A major focus of SMWC’s work this past year was the attempted passage of the Monument’s Buyout/Wilderness Bill to designate 23,000 acres of the monument’s backcountry as wilderness, and to provide for the voluntary buyout of public lands livestock grazing leases in and near the Monument. Unfortunately, the bill was introduced too late in the 109th congress to get any traction. However, the bill’s sponsors will try again this congressional session. As part of their on-going strategy, SMWC has been offering the ranchers the “carrot” of a generous buyout (public funds supplemented by private funds), while employing the “stick” of publicizing and legally challenging the environmental damage and economic costs of livestock grazing in the monument.

　

　

Western Environmental Law Center

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Eugene , Oregon

The Western Environmental Law Center (WELC) received $20,000 to provide legal resources and council to local conservation groups fighting to uphold bedrock environmental laws and responsible ecosystem management policies in the Klamath-Siskiyou bioregion. The Klamath-Siskiyou region is under a myriad of threats: logging, mining, energy development, grazing, road construction, and attempts to weaken current environmental regulations. The specific goals of the Klamath Siskiyou Defense Project are to: (1) preserve the integrity of the Northwest Forest Plan’s “survey and manage” provisions; (2) challenge the Bush Administration’s changes to the National Forest Management Act (“NFMA”) implementing regulations; (3) prevent placer mining in the Siskiyou National Forest; (4) challenge a Forest Service record of decision to allow construction of new roads through a roadless area in the Six Rivers National Forest; and (5) continue to work with local environmental groups to protect this region from site specific threats as they arise out of regulatory changes, such as the Bureau of Land Management’s Western Oregon Plan Revision, the Forest Service’s travel management rules, and the elimination of Forest Plan Revisions from the environmental review process.

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Weeden Foundation Also known as Frank Weeden Foundation 1993-2004 Foundations listed on ActivistCash.com may provide funding to a wider variety of nonprofit groups than those profiled here. Top Grants Made   Funding To Activist Groups Total Donated Time Frame Worldwatch Institute $285,000.00 1993 – 2002 Environmental Working Group $210,000.00 1989 – 1993 Center for a New American Dream $170,000.00 1997 – 2004 National Fish and Wildlife Foundation $170,000.00 1993 – 2000 Sierra Club $155,000.00 1993 – 2000 Northwest Environment Watch $137,500.00 1998 – 2002 Environmental Defense $125,000.00 1992 – 1992 Tides Foundation & Tides Center $125,000.00 1990 – 2006 Conservation International $101,000.00 1993 – 2001 Friends of the Earth $100,000.00 1999 – 2000 Western Organization of Resource Councils $90,000.00 1998 – 2003 Wildlands Project $80,000.00 2001 – 2004 Forest Ethics $70,000.00 2002 – 2004 Northwest Earth Institute $70,000.00 2001 – 2003 Natural Resources Defense Council $67,000.00 1991 – 2001 Environmental Media Services $50,000.00 1994 – 1994 Sustainable Northwest $45,000.00 1999 – 2001 Consultative Group on Biological Diversity $43,700.00 1997 – 2001 Co-op America $40,000.00 1997 – 1998 Adbusters $40,000.00 2001 – 2002 Wildlands Center for Preventing Roads $40,000.00 1998 – 1998 INFORM $40,000.00 2001 – 2003 American Farmland Trust $35,000.00 1994 – 1996 Earth Island Institute $35,000.00 1994 – 1999 National Audubon Society $25,000.00 1995 – 1995 Ocean Conservancy $25,000.00 1993 – 1993 Union of Concerned Scientists $25,000.00 1993 – 1995 Redefining Progress $20,000.00 1999 – 2004 Earth Action Network $20,000.00 2001 – 2001 Oregon Natural Resources Council $20,000.00 1997 – 1997 Rainforest Action Network $15,000.00 2004 – 2004 Ecology Center, Inc. $15,000.00 1997 – 1997 Wilderness Society $14,000.00 1993 – 2001 Environmental Grantmakers Association $13,104.00 1999 – 2001 Green Guide Institute $10,000.00 2003 – 2003 Biodiversity Action Network $10,000.00 1997 – 1997 Foundations listed on ActivistCash.com may provide funding to a wider variety of nonprofit groups than those profiled here. This website focuses on activist groups that concentrate on food- and beverage-related issues.