Washington's North and South Cascades by protecting and restoring wildlife corridor habitat
and establishing safe wildlife crossings under and over I-90. These two coalitions represent
only part of Conservation Northwest's involvement in this area, which is organized internally
under our I-90 Wildlife Corridor Campaign. This larger campaign includes our role
administering coalitions as well as on-the-ground habitat restoration around the new wildlife
crossings through volunteer and staff revegetation work, continued forest restoration in the
watersheds of the Central Cascades, and wildlife monitoring and snow-tracking through our
Citizen Wildlife Monitoring Project to document wildlife movement. In 2017, we co-produced
the 30 minute Cascade Crossroads documentary (www.conservationnw.org/cascade-
crossroads-film) to further tell the story of collaborative public-private habitat connectivity
work in this landscape.
I-90 Wildlife Watch: A project of Conservation Northwest with support from state and
federal agencies and other partners, I-90 Wildlife Watch is a collaborative information
sharing website (www.i90wildlifewatch.org) serving dual purposes:
1. Collecting reports of live and dead wildlife sightings along I-90 between North Bend
and Easton in the Snoqualmie Pass region of Washington state. The data motorists
provide will allow public agencies and conservation groups information about the
movement of wildlife within the I-90 corridor.
2. Sharing the results from multi-party fish and wildlife monitoring in the I-90
Snoqualmie Pass East Project area and surrounding habitat through our blog, photo
galleries, Facebook, Flickr and other mediums.
Central Cascades Watersheds Restoration: As our I-90 Wildlife Corridor Campaign
sunsets, we are increasing our focus on forest and watershed restoration in this larger
landscape between the Alpine Lakes Wilderness and Mount Rainier National Park. The
program is a focused complement to our ongoing Forest Field Program that will work in
watersheds spanning both sides of the Cascade Crest. Our Forest Field Program has a
much longer history in the watersheds east of the Cascades, while this program is in the
early phase of building relationships in the Puget Sound region west of the crest.
Other Connecting Habitat Programs:
Sagelands Heritage Program: This new program works to maintain, restore and connect
shrub-steppe landscapes from British Columbia's Okanagan Valley to south-central
Washington's Horse Heaven Hills for the good of both wildlife and people. Priority species
include sage grouse, bighorn sheep, badgers, sharp-tailed grouse, mule deer and pygmy
rabbits. Our work will also benefit pronghorn antelope as they are reintroduced to this
landscape, as well as raptors, owls, Rocky Mountain elk and other species. The main focus of
our work is a "Connected Backbone" of important habitat linkages that runs north-south east of
the Cascade Mountains, including places such as Okanagan Mountain, the Tunk Valley, the
Waterville Plateau, Moses Coulee, the Colockum, Wenas and other state wildlife areas, and
lands on the Colville and Yakama nations.
Coast to Cascades Grizzly Bear Initiative: This is a collaborative effort with stakeholders in
southwestern British Columbia to stem the ongoing loss of grizzly bear range and to promote
grizzly bear recovery in the transboundary ecosystems of southwest British Columbia and
