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The 2024 Legislative Session: Reflections on ...

The Washington State Legislature wrapped up its 2024 session. We celebrate new investments in climate resilience and the clean energy transition, while reflecting on the complex dynamics of protecting our state’s Climate Commitment Act.

The 2024 Legislative Session: Reflections on Advancing Climate Action
The Nature Conservancy in Washington
Douglas Reed: Environmental Conservation as a ...

As President of the Green Diamond Resource Company, this TNC in Washington trustee fosters forward-thinking connections between business and environmental pursuits.

Douglas Reed: Environmental Conservation as a “North Star” for the Timber Industry
The Nature Conservancy in Washington
Mitigating Wildfire and Saving the Old Trees

From Washington state to Washington D.C., forest and fire management is a hot topic as experts from across the country convene to discuss the health and future of mature and old-growth forests in the U.S. 

Mitigating Wildfire and Saving the Old Trees
The Nature Conservancy in Washington
Exploring Nature: Sandy Beaches

While the Puget Sound may be known for its rocky beaches, come explore why the beach is sandy at The Nature Conservancy in Washington’s Foulweather Bluff Preserve.

Exploring Nature: Sandy Beaches
The Nature Conservancy in Washington
Mike Schaefer: Stewarding Remarkable Gifts of ...

TNC in Washington trustee Mike Schaefer completes a 9-year term on the board as part of a lifelong commitment to environmental and LGBTQ justice. 

Mike Schaefer: Stewarding Remarkable Gifts of Time and Money for Conservation
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The 2024 Legislative Session: Reflections on Advancing Climate Action

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The 2024 Legislative Session: Reflections on Advancing Climate Action

The Washington State Legislature wrapped up its 2024 session. We celebrate new investments in climate resilience and the clean energy transition, while reflecting on the complex dynamics of protecting our state’s Climate Commitment Act.

Helping Washington’s Coastal Forests Prepare for the Future

Helping Washington’s Coastal Forests Prepare for the Future

New research out of the Ellsworth Creek Preserve offers insights into how we can accelerate the development of the old-growth traits that help forests persevere through the most severe impacts of climate change.

Water Connects Us All: Lessons from the Marshy Middle

Water Connects Us All: Lessons from the Marshy Middle

The way of connection is revealed by water—snowy summits melting, forging rivers, winding streams and cutting wetlands to spill over a salty edge. Join Dr. Emily Howe, Ecologist of Aquatic Environments for TNC Washington, as she poetically details the interconnectedness of a watershed. 

Watch the Video: A Day in the Life

Watch the Video: A Day in the Life

A new video promotes the hard work and commitment of Nature Conservancy scientists and collaborators who everyday provide the knowledge crucial for a future where people, lands, and waters thrive in balance.

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Our Priorities for the 2024 State Legislative Session

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Our Priorities for the 2024 State Legislative Session

The 2024 state legislative session is underway! The Nature Conservancy’s highest priority for the 2024 legislative session is ensuring the success of the Climate Commitment Act (CCA). With revenue from the CCA cap-and-invest program, we have an opportunity this session to make big investments in Natural Climate Solutions, a just transition, Environmental Justice Council recommendations, and investments to attract federal climate funding.

5 Nature Conservancy Preserves in Washington You Can Visit Anytime

5 Nature Conservancy Preserves in Washington You Can Visit Anytime

Here are five Nature Conservancy preserves in Washington that you can visit anytime to immerse yourself in the beauty of nature, while learning about The Nature Conservancy’s conservation efforts.

Real Christmas Trees: Making the Difference for Conservation and Community

Real Christmas Trees: Making the Difference for Conservation and Community

It might surprise you to learn that getting a real Christmas tree is more sustainable than using a plastic tree for the holidays, but TNC Washington and the Kiwanis Club of Cle Elum are taking sustainable harvest one step further with benefits for conservation and the local community.

Climate Chronicles: Common Climate Vocabulary Shaping a Movement

Climate Chronicles: Common Climate Vocabulary Shaping a Movement

We invite you to look back on a year of challenge and growth by exploring these Climate Chronicles through learning a common lexicon crucial to TNC Washington’s work. Beneath each key term, you will find a definition as well as links to stories of our work.

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View fullsize The thing about today is... It's Monday! No other day could get the week off to such a great start. ― Anthony T. Hincks . . . #northwestnature 📸by @naturegirlangie
View fullsize Hi! I'm a rough-skinned newt. I may looks small and fragile, but I have an unusual defense mechanism. My skin can produce a powerful neurotoxin called tetrodotoxin. The toxin prevents nerve cells from firing correctly, which ultimately causes paralys
View fullsize Hi! I'm a banana slug. I use my slime to breathe, to move and to attract water. In fact my slime absorbs 100 times its volume in water. It helps me move along the ground and even climb up trees. My slime is a liquid crystal that acts both like a lubr
View fullsize I like the mountains because they make me feel small,' Jeff says. 'They help me sort out what's important in life.' ― Mark Obmascik, "Halfway to Heaven: My White-knuckled--and Knuckleheaded--Quest for the Rocky Mountain High" . . . #northwe
View fullsize Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity ― John Muir, "Our National Parks" . . . #northwestnature 📸 by @nonay_movingsoul
View fullsize It is advisable to look from the tide pool to the stars and then back to the tide pool.☄ — John Steinbeck . . . #northwestnature 📸 by @seattlenorthcountry
View fullsize Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them. ― Marcus Aurelius . . . #northwestnature 📸 by @browneyedsmile808
View fullsize Here in the corner attic of America, two hours’ drive from a rain forest, a desert, a foreign country, an empty island, a hidden fjord, a raging river, a glacier, and a volcano is a place where the inhabitants sense they can do no better, nor d
View fullsize We are lucky that mountains exist; we are lucky that we have such beautiful sanctuaries on earth where we can enjoy utter silence and heavenly rise! ― Mehmet Murat ildan . . . #northwestnature 📸 by @kylekotajarvi
View fullsize A little tranquil lake is more significant to my life than any big city in the world. ― Munia Khan . . . #northwestnature 📸 by @nowandbren
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View fullsize Pika says, Happy Friday! . . The pika doesn't look it, but it is related to rabbits. The relationship to rabbits and hares comes out in its nickname. The pika is known for sending up a shrill whistle and diving into a hiding place when it spots a pre
View fullsize This is what we see when we look up at Rainier, the beauty, the horror, the awe the unbelievability of size that confirms our own consequence on this earth. We look at the mountain, like god and can imagine nothing larger. Its incompressible life-spa
View fullsize @ross.eckert found the place where summer meets winter. . . . #northwestnature 📸 by @ross.eckert
View fullsize Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can. ― Danny Kaye . . . #northwestnature 📸 by @coryzanker
View fullsize To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude. — Jeanne Moreau . . . #northwestnature 📸 by @frankleeruggles

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