LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS

All About Ashland
An alternative to the mainstream, AAA was created to inspire positive change in the community and beyond. One goal of this project is to present meaningful content by highlighting the amazing things that make this town so special.

Big Wildlife
Big Wildlife was formed in 2006 to provide a voice for carnivores such as cougars, bears, coyotes, and wolves in North America. Dynamic, gutsy, and visionary, Big Wildlife combines innovative media strategies with nuts and bolts grassroots organizing.

Cascadia Wildlands Project   
The CWP is dedicated to defending the forests, waters and wildlife of Cascadia.

Environmental Protection Information Center
EPIC was formed by community activists more than 26 years ago, and works to protect and restore ancient forests, watersheds, coastal estuaries, and native species throughout Northwest California.

Northcoast Environmental Center
Created in February 1971, the NEC is a coalition educating, agitating and litigating on California northern coast.

Siskiyou Project  
Siskiyou Project works to protect the ecological integrity and biodiversity the Siskiyou Mountains through protection of wild places, education and collaborative strategies.

Umpqua Watersheds
Umpqua Watersheds, Inc., is a non-profit organization dedicated to the protection and restoration of the watersheds in the Umpqua River basin in southern Oregon. 

REGIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

Bark
We are a network of volunteers dedicated to protecting Oregon's public forests. Our immediate goal is to preserve the Mt. Hood National Forest.

Cascade Resources Advocacy Group (CRAG)
CRAG actively encourages citizen involvement and promotes sustainable co-existence with our shared natural resources by: 1) providing high quality legal representation to under-serves citizen activists and groups with compatible missions, and 2) educating citizen activists, groups and the public a bout local, state, federal and international laws that govern natural resources and environmental management.

Oregon Wild
Oregon Wild (formerly Oregon Natural Resources Council) is a conservation consortium promoting environmental protection by educating the public and influencing the public's servants through legal and legislative processes.

Pacific Environmental Advocacy Center
The Pacific Environmental Advocacy Center (PEAC), founded in 1996, is the environmental law clinic at Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon. PEAC's goals are to advance efforts to protect the environment by serving as a resource for public interest organizations that need legal representation and to train and educate law students through direct involvement in complex environmental and natural resource issues. PEAC provides rewarding clinical experience for students interested in environmental law who wish to develop their litigation, negotiation, and advocacy skills.

Trees Foundation
Assisting and empowering community-based conservation efforts on California's North Coast since 1991.

Western Environmental Law Center   
WELC is a public interest law firm dedicated to defending the West. They proudly represent Indian tribes, local governments, citizens groups who seek to protect and restore the forests, rivers, grasslands, wildlife and human communities of the West.

NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

American Lands Alliance  
American Lands Alliance is dedicated to the protection and recovery of North American native forest, grassland, and aquatic ecosystems; the preservation of biological diversity; the restoration of watershed integrity; and the promotion of environmental justice in connection with these goals.

Conservation Biology Institute
Conservation Biology Institute (CBI) is a non-profit founded in 1997, whose mission is to help save the diversity of life on the planet in two primary ways: applied conservation research and education.

Earthjustice   
Earthjustice is a non-profit public interest law firm dedicated to protecting the magnificent places, natural resources, and wildlife of this earth and to defending the right of all people to a healthy environment.

Endangered Species Coalition
As the guardian of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA), the Endangered Species Coalition speaks on endangered species issues for some 380 environmental, conservation, religious, scientific, humane, sporting and business groups around the country.

Firefighters United for Safety, Ethics and Ecology (FUSEE)
FUSEE promotes wildland firefighter and community safety, ethical public service, and ecological fire management. We seek to inform, inspire, and empower wildland firefighters and their citizen supporters to become torchbearers for a new mission in fire management.

ForestEthics
ForestEthics harnesses the power of the marketplace to transform the wood and paper industries and redirect the marketplace towards ecologically sound alternatives.

Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics
Our mission is to forge a socially responsible value system for the Forest Service based on a land ethic that ensures ecologically and economically sustainable resource management.

Rainforest Action Network   
Rainforest Action Network works to protect rainforests and the human rights of those living in and around those forests through supporting activists in rainforest countries as well as organizing and mobilizing consumers and community action groups throughout the United States.

COMMUNITY-BASED FORESTRY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE

The Jefferson Center
The Jefferson Center for Education and Research creates opportunities with rural working people in the Pacific West, across languages and cultures, to achieve environmental, economic, and social justice.

Lomakatsi Restoration Project   
Lomakatsi Restoration Project is dedicated to the regeneration and rehabilitation of watersheds within the greater Klamath/Siskiyou bio-region of Southwestern Oregon.

ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION

Siskiyou Field Institute
Contecting people to the natural world through scientific exploration.

Dakubetede Environmental Education Program   
DEEP offers diverse academic and experiential opportunities to earn graduate or undergraduate university credits in science, social studies, humanities, art, and education.

SOU Environmental Education Graduate Program   
SOU Environmental Education Graduate Program is an intensive one to two year field-oriented program leading to a Master's of Science degree in Environmental Education. This program, with its emphasis on field courses, takes advantage of the great biological diversity of Southern Oregon.