Stories from The Emerald Alliance

Trust building, community resilience planning, and integrated multi-benefit solutions are essential tenets featured in a new report from the National Academies of Sciences (NAS) titled "Equitable and Resilient Infrastructure Investments" (2022). The report calls out...

Last summer, Grist ran a limited series on wildfires called the Burning Issue. This year, they are turning their attention to a different but intersecting piece of the climate change puzzle: drought in the Western US. Their first issue in early August discussed the...

This year’s legislative session was short and bittersweet - while some exciting legislation made it through the session, there were quite a few disappointing losses. Below we’ve captured primary highlights and lowlights from the 2022 session, including legislation...

(Photo: The San Juan Preservation Trust (SJPT), of WALT's 32 member organizations, hosted Preschool students creating a hibernaculum at Eureka Preserve. SJPT has partnered with schools to make several SJPT preserves available as “learning landscapes” that foster the...

Climate, housing, racial justice, energy, and a wide array of other social and environmental issues are topics driving the 2022 WA Legislative Session; topics that have historically fallen outside of the conservation movement’s scope, where conservation focused...

Puget Sound counties continue to chalk up some of the fastest growth rates in the country.  No matter how you slice it, when it comes to the conservation of agricultural land, the core question is: are we protecting the most valuable farmland? According to American...