Staff contacts:

• Denise Joines, Program Officer
• Liz Bell, Program Associate

The ancient forests of the Pacific Northwest’s Cascadia Priority Region support rich biological communities that are critical and irreplaceable reservoirs of biological diversity. Containing evergreens as old as 1000 years and towering more than 300 feet, Cascadia’s old-growth forests are the habitat of the rare northern spotted owl, which became both the symbol of the forest’s ecological values and a lighting rod for controversy in the 1990s. The region supports an abundance of wildlife, including grizzly bears and wolverines in the North, and fishers, spotted owls, and cougars throughout the forests. The Southern Cascades represent the best habitat for recolonizing wolves on the West Coast.

Wilburforce’s Cascadia Priority Region stretches from Washington’s border with Canada to Oregon’s border with California, along the spine of the Cascade Mountain Range.

We partner with organizations working towards achieving the following goals in the Cascadia Priority Region:

• Ecologically effective populations of wildlife thrive throughout the Cascadia
• Land management practices protect and restore the ecological integrity and native biodiversity of these lands

We are supporting the following organizations for work in this area. When you click on an organization name you will see a list of all grants made to that organization, which may include projects funded in other program areas.

(Organizations receiving science-related grants are not included in this list. Please see our Conservation Science section for those grants.)

• Montana State University Foundation
• Oregon Wild
• Pacific Rivers Council
• Resource Innovation Group
• American Rivers
• Cascadia Wildlands Project
• Gifford Pinchot Task Force
• Conservation Northwest
• Trout Unlimited
• Wilderness Society