The Nature Conservancy in Washington
Meet DeAnne Hamilton: Elevating Environmental ...

Meet DeAnne Hamilton: Learn how the general manager of Tacoma’s KBTC Public Television and TNC in Washington trustee, uses the power of storytelling to engage people in conservation and create a better future for the next generation.  

Meet DeAnne Hamilton: Elevating Environmental Stories through Local TV Journalism  
The Nature Conservancy in Washington
Exploring Nature: Spring Frogs

Nestled in the cliffs in Moses Coulee is an import desert water sources that every springs attracts thousands of Pacific Tree frogs. I came to Whisper Lake for a night concert. It was anything but quiet. The chorus of frogs was soothing, calming—the quintessential sound of spring.

Exploring Nature: Spring Frogs
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Candid Camera: A view into Cle Elum Ridge's ...

The Cle Elum Wildlife Project is improving our understanding of how wildlife use and move through protected forest landscapes, providing us with an opportunity to test how forest management practices impact wildlife and building an evidence base for permanent protection.

Candid Camera: A view into Cle Elum Ridge's Wildlife Project
Climate
The Nature Conservancy in Washington
Adapting to Climate Change: Resources

Information and resources for adapting to climate change.

Adapting to Climate Change: Resources
The Nature Conservancy in Washington
Women in Conservation

This women’s History Month, TNC Washington celebrates the accomplishments of women in conservation who offer critical contributions to the field, while simultaneously facing unique challenges of gender bias in a world dominated by men.

Women in Conservation

carbon policy

Board Statement Supporting Climate in Federal Legislation

Board Statement Supporting Climate in Federal Legislation

Our volunteer Board of Trustees issued a resolution calling on Congress to protect the climate-change mitigation and resiliency provisions in the infrastructure and budget reconciliation packages currently under debate in Washington, DC.

Shaping policy to cut carbon

Shaping policy to cut carbon

Washington and the world urgently need climate action, and that action must not be taken in a way that exacerbates harm in communities already overburdened by pollution and other impacts of climate change.

Our Approach to Carbon Pricing

Our Approach to Carbon Pricing

The climate crisis is the greatest threat to our vision and our mission. We are committed to working across differences to achieve the transformation our society and economy needs to address this challenge.

Join us in speaking up for nature in Olympia this session

Join us in speaking up for nature in Olympia this session

Resolve to speak up for nature and people this year: join us in Olympia or use your voice online to support policy and public funding for a better Washington and a better world.

Details on the Ballot Initiative for a Cleaner, Healthier Washington

Details on the Ballot Initiative for a Cleaner, Healthier Washington

An initiative we've filed would create funds to be used to accelerate our state’s transition to clean energy, increase the resiliency of the state’s waters and forests to the impacts of climate change and reduce the impacts of climate change on communities.

    Action in State Capitol Sets Us on a Course Toward Climate Progress

    Action in State Capitol Sets Us on a Course Toward Climate Progress

    Washington’s lawmakers can set a national standard for action to address climate change — not only its impacts on our iconic landscapes, but on the people who depend on a healthy environment to live, work and recreate throughout our state.

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