Stories from The Emerald Alliance

Across the conservation community, there is nearly constant focus on how to drive more funding to on-the-ground investments in land protection and restoration.

One of the many useful products produced by the Regional Open Space Strategy for Puget Sound (ROSS) is the Open Space Assessment Tool (OSAT).

By Tracy Stanton Our Pacific Northwest neighbor to the north, Vancouver, BC, is among 25 global cities featured in, Life After Carbon: The Next Global Transformation of Cities (Island Press).The following is an excerpt from an article written by Sadhu...

By Tracy Stanton A new United Nations’ report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change details the new risks from a warming planet on food and water shortages, expanding deserts and land degradation. This most recent report from the IPCC, focuses...

Over the past year our Urban to Wild team at The Wilderness Society has been working to gain a better understanding of how public transit connects people to parks in King County.

In the wake of King County’s Land Conservation Initiative, I got to thinking about other vital organizations working to protect the region’s landscapes, especially those on private lands.