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- EIN 93-0946133
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- 503-228-3555
- 317 SW Alder Street, Suite 900 Portland OR 97204-9914 USA
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Environment, Forest Conservation, Natural Resources Conservation & Protection, Water, Water Resources, Wetlands Conservation & Management
Mission: Pacific Rivers is one of the most influential river conservation organizations in the United States. Our mission is to protect and restore rivers, their watersheds, and native aquatic species. Advocating a whole watershed approach to land management, Pacific Rivers fills a unique niche in the conservation community. Our projects are based on the recovery strategy of protect the best, restore the rest, as the first step towards natural resource management based on conservation biology. Pacific Rivers promotes the protection of the best remaining aquatic habitat, or refuges, to provide anchors for restoration of more degraded systems.
Programs: 1. To redress the pervasive impacts of wildland roads on freshwater ecosystems, to protect unroaded watersheds from road development, and to restore lightly roaded high-quality watersheds. 2. To protect and restore the most pristine remnants of America?s natural fresh water systems. To further advance the concept of landscape-level aquatic protection on the nation's public lands, garnering recognition of aquatic refugia as a necessary conservation tool in the regional plan. 3. To avoid and minimize impact to soils, water, and vegetation from pre- and post-fire logging on federal forestlands. 4. To ensure the protection and recovery of at-risk aquatic species and their habitats in the West. Using the best available science to push for solid protection of aquatic diversity, PRC defends both the law and individual species. 5. To establish new forestry models that emphasize watershed restoration.