Hells Canyon Preservation Council is working to protect one our natural treasures here in America. Their eventual goal is the designation of a 2 million acre national preserve encompassing the Hells Canyon-Wallow Ecosystem in northeast Oregon and west-central Idaho.
Friends of the Clearwater watch over our last roadless lands in West-Central Idaho. They are an amazing group, doing lots of forest protection with very little funding.
Northwoods Wilderness Recovery is stopping degradation of forests in Michigan and Wisconsin's North Woods. Wild & Scenic Rivers contain critical habitat and migration corridors and are supposed to be protected from development pressures. Unfortunately, logging and development in these fragile areas is being allowed to continue on our National Forests. NWR is trying to correct this problem with the help of a grant from MUSE.
Swan View Coalition recieved a grant from MUSE to help fund their efforts to report on, and put the brakes on, the current hysteria to log our national forests in order to "save them". The fires of 2000 are being used as an excuse to log. Swan View's work is important in debunking current myths and misconceptions about our forests.
Center for Environmental Equity is a small but very effective organization in Oregon working hard to change the damaging mining laws of 1872. MUSE helped with a project to stop cyanide heap-leach mines next to sensitive wilderness areas.
Friends of the Bitterroot is an active organization in the Bitterroot Valley of Montana. MUSE helped fund their ongoing attempts to document the presence of grizzly bears in the Selway/Bitterroot Wilderness. With this documentation it will help extend protection of the bears when future grizzly bear reintroduction takes place.
Northwest Ecosystem Alliance (now called Conservation Northwest) is another hard-hitting grassroots group focused on forest preservation and endangered species protection in northwest Washington and southeast British Columbia. Our project helped build bridges between the environmental community and the local churches in trying to improve salmon recovery and watershed protection.
Native Forest Network is a worldwide web of grassroots activists striving to protect the last remaining native forests. MUSE helped fund their campaign focusing on imperiled wildlands in the Northern Rocky Mountains.
Wild Things Unlimited is a research organization focusing on endangered forest carnivores in the fragile Yellowstone Ecosystem. Their important field work (which MUSE supports) will help protect sensitive species such as martin, fisher, lynx, and wolverine.
Montana Wilderness Association is Montana's oldest wilderness organization working hard to save our last best places. The MUSE grant focused on promoting unspoiled back country of the Gallatin Range.
Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project is about as grassroots as you can get. They do amazing things with very little funding. Our grant helped them in their work to watchdog forestry practices on our eastern Oregon national forests.
 Predator Conservation Alliance (now called Keystone Conservation) works to save a place for America's predators. MUSE helped fund their campaign to preserve prairie dog and grassland ecosystems in the Great Plains, important habitat to the vanishing black-footed ferret, swift fox, and many other species.
American Wildlands strives for protection of our wild places and wild things. They're very focused on corridors (including the Yellowstone to Yukon Initiative) and our grant helped with a booklet to publicize the need to protect existing wildlife corridors.
RESTORE: The North Woods has a campaign for an important Maine Woods National Park and Preserve. This would preserve and restore miles of ecologically rich forest land in northern Maine. MUSE helped fund their Pedal for the Park, and effort to publicize the project throughout New England.
Northern Alaska Environmental Center is working to protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. MUSE knows that this is one of the most unique places on this Earth and we support keeping it as it is. Our grant will help keep ANWR wild.
Natural Resources Council of Maine is working to protect the wild character of the Allagash Wilderness Waterway. Our M.U.S.E. grant is helping the Council in their work to assure that the Allagash will be managed in a responsible manner, and that the wild river will be cherished and kept as pristine as possible.
Oregon Natural Desert Association is trying to save a small but ecologically important area called the Badlands east of Bend, OR. The proposed 38,000-acre Badlands Wilderness is home to ancient dry river canyons, volcanic ridges of Pahoehoe lava, red-ochred pictographs, and 1,000-year old juniper trees. The Badlands offers critical winter habitat for deer and elk, and hosts a surviving remnant native grassland that was once typical of Oregon's High Desert.
Conservation Leader's Network is building coalitions to help create marine reserves along the Oregon coast.
Western Watersheds Project sought MUSE assistance to support a major wildlife restoration project on the East Fork of the Salmon River in Idaho.
Endangered Species Coalition has an ongoing mission to keep the Endangered Species Act intact. This visionary law has been extremely successful in keeping hundreds of species from disappearing from this Earth forever. MUSE is proud to be a member of this Coalition to extend the hand of care and concern to all forms of life.
The Heartwood Forest Council is the largest annual gathering of citizens from across the Eastern, Midwestern, and Southern United States who care about the health and well-being of our nation's forests. MUSE is proud to help fund the 18th annual gathering.
Forever Wild--2006 was a MUSE project that succeeded in generating over 20,000 actions on behalf of Endangered Species, Clean Water, and National Forest roadless lands. The effort involved hundreds of organizations in 46 states, dozens of musicans, authors, and activists.
Big Sky Wildcare is a bird of prey rehab center. We helped fund their educational program to teach humans how to understand and better live with our wild, feathered neighbors.
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