Conservation Northwest plans for next year

Thinking ahead, Conservation Northwest has named it’s top priorities for 2009, hoping to connect and protect old growth and other wild areas across the state. Without further adieu: —-We will introduce and pass a management plan including wilderness designation for the Colville National Forest in the Columbia Highlands. —-We will help pass legislation to protect old-growth forests on public lands in the Northwest. —-We will help reverse eleventh-hour Bush administration regulations that are dangerous to wildlife and wildlands. —-We will continue to protect endangered wildlife, keeping thoughtful watch on issues of importance to animals from lynx to wolverine and working for state funding to support management of Washington’s wolves and recovery of the North Cascades grizzly bear.