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Our Mission
To protect and restore the ecological integrity of forests in the Pacific Northwest
Biodiversity Northwest envisions a bioregion in which the long-term needs of ecological systems and the communities they support take priority over short-term economic considerations.
We place a high priority on protecting the last of the old-growth forests on public lands. Preserving these reservoirs of biodiversity is critical to the health of our forests, the species that depend on them, and the people of our region. We also emphasize repairing the damage caused by logging and roadbuilding as a means to restore ecosystems and revitalize rural economies.
Our methods include public outreach and advocacy, policy analysis, coalition building, field visits and monitoring, timber sale comments and appeals, and -- when appropriate -- non-violent direct action.
Biodiversity Northwest was founded in the fall of 1993 [under the name Pacific Crest Biodiversity Project] to serve as the Northwest office of the international Native Forest Network [NFN]. In 1995, the Biodiversity Project branched off from Native Forest Network to focus independently on local forest issues. Local NFN members became charter members of the new organization. Our name changed to Biodiversity Northwest [BNW] in March, 2002. In May, 2003, BNW merged most of our programs with Northwest Ecosystem Alliance.
Cedar River Watershed
Biodiversity Northwest led the grassroots effort that convinced the City of Seattle to end commercial logging in the Cedar River Watershed. The no commercial logging provision became part of a 50-year habitat conservation plan [HCP] passed in July, 1999.
Reviewing a thinning project, October 2003.
Since then, BNW has continued to monitor issues and activities affecting the Cedar. Our efforts helped produce an exemplary mitigation package when Bonneville Power Administration put a new powerline through the watershed in 2003.
We are now closely monitoring the city`s ecological thinning program, which produces salable logs as a byproduct of pursuing ecological goals. Though the Cedar River HCP did provide for limited sales of logs, the scale of the program is greater than originally anticipated. BNW is reviewing plans, touring projects, and discussing issues with watershed staff and other groups. We will also do our best to keep you informed and help facilitate public input.
The Cascade Conservation Partnership
In an 11th hour adjustment to the I-90 Land Exchange, thousands of acres in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest -- which were to be traded to Plum Creek Timber Company -- dropped out of the trade. Large stands of old-growth forest as old as 450 years and unroaded forest behind Randle, Washington remain public as a result.
As part of a settlement agreement with Plum Creek Timber Company, the company has offered to sell the lands that dropped out on the private side of the trade. A major campaign is underway to acquire remaining sensitive Plum Creek and other lands through purchase, not trade. This campaign is called the Cascades Conservation Partnership, and it got off to an excellent start in 2000, raising over $30 million in public and private funds. Biodiversity Northwest serves on the steering committee and lands committee with several other groups.
Of the 75,000 acres of land identified for acquisition over a three-year period, most are in the checkerboard forests between the Alpine Lakes and Mt. Rainier. Three sections of land at Fossil Creek [near Mt. St. Helens in the Gifford Pinchot NF] that were traded to Plum Creek were also part of the acquisition effort and were acquired in 2000.
One of the top priorities for the Cascades Conservation Partnership is Sawmill Creek, old-growth forest along a healthy tributary of the Green River Watershed. Biodiversity Northwest has unofficially adopted Sawmill Creek and the historic trail of the same name.
To protect and restore the ecological integrity of forests in the Pacific Northwest
Biodiversity Northwest envisions a bioregion in which the long-term needs of ecological systems and the communities they support take priority over short-term economic considerations.
We place a high priority on protecting the last of the old-growth forests on public lands. Preserving these reservoirs of biodiversity is critical to the health of our forests, the species that depend on them, and the people of our region. We also emphasize repairing the damage caused by logging and roadbuilding as a means to restore ecosystems and revitalize rural economies.
Our methods include public outreach and advocacy, policy analysis, coalition building, field visits and monitoring, timber sale comments and appeals, and -- when appropriate -- non-violent direct action.
Biodiversity Northwest was founded in the fall of 1993 [under the name Pacific Crest Biodiversity Project] to serve as the Northwest office of the international Native Forest Network [NFN]. In 1995, the Biodiversity Project branched off from Native Forest Network to focus independently on local forest issues. Local NFN members became charter members of the new organization. Our name changed to Biodiversity Northwest [BNW] in March, 2002. In May, 2003, BNW merged most of our programs with Northwest Ecosystem Alliance.
Cedar River Watershed
Biodiversity Northwest led the grassroots effort that convinced the City of Seattle to end commercial logging in the Cedar River Watershed. The no commercial logging provision became part of a 50-year habitat conservation plan [HCP] passed in July, 1999.
Reviewing a thinning project, October 2003.
Since then, BNW has continued to monitor issues and activities affecting the Cedar. Our efforts helped produce an exemplary mitigation package when Bonneville Power Administration put a new powerline through the watershed in 2003.
We are now closely monitoring the city`s ecological thinning program, which produces salable logs as a byproduct of pursuing ecological goals. Though the Cedar River HCP did provide for limited sales of logs, the scale of the program is greater than originally anticipated. BNW is reviewing plans, touring projects, and discussing issues with watershed staff and other groups. We will also do our best to keep you informed and help facilitate public input.
The Cascade Conservation Partnership
In an 11th hour adjustment to the I-90 Land Exchange, thousands of acres in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest -- which were to be traded to Plum Creek Timber Company -- dropped out of the trade. Large stands of old-growth forest as old as 450 years and unroaded forest behind Randle, Washington remain public as a result.
As part of a settlement agreement with Plum Creek Timber Company, the company has offered to sell the lands that dropped out on the private side of the trade. A major campaign is underway to acquire remaining sensitive Plum Creek and other lands through purchase, not trade. This campaign is called the Cascades Conservation Partnership, and it got off to an excellent start in 2000, raising over $30 million in public and private funds. Biodiversity Northwest serves on the steering committee and lands committee with several other groups.
Of the 75,000 acres of land identified for acquisition over a three-year period, most are in the checkerboard forests between the Alpine Lakes and Mt. Rainier. Three sections of land at Fossil Creek [near Mt. St. Helens in the Gifford Pinchot NF] that were traded to Plum Creek were also part of the acquisition effort and were acquired in 2000.
One of the top priorities for the Cascades Conservation Partnership is Sawmill Creek, old-growth forest along a healthy tributary of the Green River Watershed. Biodiversity Northwest has unofficially adopted Sawmill Creek and the historic trail of the same name.
