Stories from The Emerald Alliance
Read our latest stories about local conservation issues, initiatives, and the people who shape them.
Webinar Report: Innovative conservation funding strategies in Puget Sound
Across Puget Sound, many organizations are looking for new ways to fund conservation and restoration activities. How can existing funding mechanisms be adapted or expanded to generate more funding and where are the new sources of funding for conservation and...
Economic Outcomes of Urban Floodplain Restoration: Implications for Puget Sound
A new report by American Rivers and ECONorthwest documents the economic outcomes of urban floodplain restoration on local and state budgets and tax revenue. Here is a link to the project fact sheet and full report. A large portion of restoration funding for the Puget...
Washington’s Best Lands and Its Agricultural Identity are Under Threat
According to Farms Under Threat: The State of the States, a new report by American Farmland Trust, millions of acres of America’s agricultural land were developed or converted to uses that threaten farming between 2001 and 2016. The report’s Agricultural Land...
Why We Need Access to Nature to Cope with COVID-19
COVID-19 has raised so many questions in our lives – and provided a few answers. Abrupt life changes have put into sharp focus what is important and valued. The experience of shelter-in-place, and figuring out how to continue work, school and personal relationships,...
A Dose of Nature Improves Mental Health
This is a repost of an article written by Michelle Ma on the UW News feed. The title says it all, “Dose of nature at home could help mental health, well being during COVID-19.”Here is a brief excerpt from the story:“In light of stay-at-home orders, University of...
The Power of Parks in a Pandemic
I want to pass along a few articles that caught my attention over the past many weeks.
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