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- EIN 84-1113831
- info@westernresources.org
- (303) 444-1188
- 2260 Baseline Rd Ste 200 Boulder CO 80302 USA
- http://www.westernresourceadvocates.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Energy Resources Conservation & Development, Environment, Forest Conservation, Land Resources Conservation, Water, Water Resources, Wetlands Conservation & Management
Mission: Western Resource Advocates protects and restores the natural environment of the Interior West. It uses law, economics and policy analysis to protect land and water resources, protect essential habitats for plants and animals, and to assure that energy demands are met in environmentally sound and sustainable ways. We meet these goals by working with other environmental and community groups, taking into account the economic and cultural framework unique to the seven states of the Interior West.
Geographic areas served: Arizona, Colorado, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming
Programs: Lands program -- the program works to protect the region's open spaces and wild lands and its bio diversity from two principal threats: energy resources exploration and development, andunmanaged off-road vehicle (orv) use. The program works to protectsensitive and special lands from development and to ensure thatwhere development occurs, it is well managed, limits damage to other resources, and assures reclamation. It also works to limit use to designated roads and trails and to protect fish and wildlife habitat and other venues from uncontrolled orv use. Thelands program team works in a wide range of administrative,legislative, and judicial forums to advance its policy goals.
Energy Program -- the program promotes a sustainable energy policy across the interior west by encouraging broader reliance on efficiency and renewable resources and clean coal technologies while discouraging new investments in conventional coal resources that threaten air quality and increase the risk of global warming. The energy program team develops policy measures tailored to the region and to individual states and then works with other organizations and people to advance those policy goals before public utilities commissions, with governors and legislators, and with opinion leaders.
Water program -- this program is working to protect and restore aquatic and riparian ecosystems in the interior west. The water program team is working to break the link between population growth and the demand for new water resources by encouraging investments by municipal water providers in efficiency and conservation measures that reduce per capita water use. In addition, the water team is working with a diverse set of stakeholders to improve flows and habitat in the upper colorado rivers system, to conserve endangered fish species, and to broadly enhance a severely degraded ecosystem. The water program staff is also working to protect and restore the Gunnison river system of Colorado.
Utah offices/projects -- this program specifically acts in the state of Utah. Funds are used to deal with issues regarding mining, air quality, grazing rights, keeping Yellowstone nuclear free, water rights, etc. The Utah program staff is also working to protect and restore the great salt lake.