Rewilding North America
by Dave Foreman
Reference Directory
Appendices to Rewilding North America
Due to space limitations, the three appendices to Rewilding North America were not included in the printed book, and are no longer available on the Island Press website.
Appendix A “Large Core Complexes in the South-to-North MegaLinkages” lists the tentative large core complexes with estimated acreages for the Pacific, Spine of the Continent, and Atlantic MegaLinkages.
Appendix B “Wildlands Network Unit Classification” is a more detailed description of the kinds of units that make up a wildlands network than the discussion in the book.
Appendix C “Groups Working on Continental-Scale Conservation” is a contact list of the primary groups involved with continental-scale conservation. (A more extensive contact list of such groups with links to their websites will later appear on The Rewilding Institute website.)
Island Press
Island Press is the world’s foremost publisher of conservation books. We are pleased to link to their book category that deals with rewilding and continental-scale conservation issues: Biodiversity & Wildlife
Books of the Big Outside
A comprehensive list and reviews of over two hundred conservation books. Featuring some suggested “Six-Packs.”
Organizational Links by Category
In this Organizational Directory we provide links to a wide variety of groups (local, regional, national and international) working on various aspects of rewilding and continental-scale conservation.
These groups are listed under several categories; some are listed in more than one category. Where the group’s location isn’t obvious from their name, we give the region where the goup is involved. Groups generally working on national or international scales are listed first in each category.
This list is not complete. We hope to add groups to it as we become aware of their work.If you would like to be listed in this directory, please send us your website address and a sentence or two describing what you do. The decision to list groups rests solely with The Rewilding Institute. If you no longer wish to be listed or your mission has changed, please let us know.
WILDLANDS NETWORK DESIGN
The Wildlands Network Based in Florida, The Wildlands Project also has field offices in Vermont and Arizona.
Grand Canyon Wildlands Network presents proactive, positive, scientifically credible and practical steps for redesigning how we live alongside nature.
Naturalia, A.C. (Mexico)
Round River Conservation Studies
California Wilderness Coalition
Science and Collaboration for Connected Wildlands (California)
Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center (Oregon)
Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness
CARNIVORE PROTECTION AND RECOVERY
National Wolfwatcher Coalition
Naturalia, A.C. (Mexico)
Carnivore Ecology and Conservation
Center for Biological Diversity
Grand Canyon Wolf Recovery Project
Predator Defense (Oregon)
International Society for Endangered Cats
Agrupación Dodo A.C. (Mexico)
ECOLOGICAL WILDERNESS AREA DESIGN
These groups are applying to varying degrees The Rewilding Institute ecological guidelines on Wilderness Area (or other protected area) selection, design, and prioritization, or are otherwise using continental-scale considerations for protected area design.
Campaign for America’s Wilderness The Campaign for America’s Wilderness is a national effort to permanently protect the nation’s last wild lands by placing them into the National Wilderness Preservation System, where they will remain in a natural state for the use and enjoyment of future generations.
Arizona Wilderness Coalition The AWC focuses exclusively on roadless and wildland protections, including advocating for wilderness and wild and scenic river designations.
New Mexico Wilderness Alliance The New Mexico Wilderness Alliance is a grassroots environmental organization dedicated to the protection, restoration and continued enjoyment of New Mexico’s wildlands and Wilderness Areas.
Wilderness Support Center (The Wilderness Society)
Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS)
Grand Canyon Wildlands Council
California Wilderness Coalition
Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center (Oregon)
Sky Island Alliance (Southern Arizona & New Mexico)
Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative
Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness
LANDSCAPE PERMEABILITY RESTORATION
These groups are generally involved in protecting and restoring landscape permeability in the Four Continental MegaLinkages or are specifically involved by identifying and working to modify highway barriers, controlling off-road vehicles, opposing new roads, or restoring unnecessary and damaging roads on public lands.
Science and Collaboration for Connected Wildlands (California)
The Cascades Conservation Partnership
Sky Island Alliance (Southern Arizona & New Mexico)
Grand Canyon Wildlands Council
Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative
Tijeras Canyon Safe Passage Coalition (New Mexico)
MAGIC (Maryland)
I-90 Wildlife Bridges Coalition In the Cascade Mountains of Washington State, bustling Interstate 90 is being expanded from four lanes to six, right through the heart of important wildlife corridor lands. The I-90 Wildlife Bridges Coalition is a diverse group of interests that was formed to ensure that high quality wildlife and fish passage options, both underpasses and overpasses, be included in the highway upgrade.
HEALING THE WOUNDS ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION
These groups are doing hands-on ecological restoration (stream and watershed restoration, exotic species removal, restoration of natural fire, road closures, etc.) from a continental-scale perspective.
Wild Earth Guardians (Southwest US)
Grand Canyon Wildlands Council
Sky Island Alliance (Southern Arizona & New Mexico)
Nature Conservancy Forest Health
WILDLANDS DEFENSE
These groups defend wildlands and wildlife from exploitation using a continental-scale perspective.
Alliance for the Wild Rockies (US Northern Rockies)
Biodiversity Conservation Alliance
Campaign for America’s Wilderness
Center for Biological Diversity
Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness
Friends of the Clearwater (Idaho)
Grand Canyon Wildlands Council
Great Old Broads for Wilderness
High Country Citizens Alliance (Colorado)
New Mexico Wilderness Alliance
River Runners for Wilderness RRFW is working on winning wilderness designation for the Colorado River and backcountry of the Grand Canyon.
San Juan Citizens Alliance (Colorado)
Sierra Club – My Piece of America Interactive website campaign designed to inspire personal connections and desire to protect wild places.
Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center (Oregon)
Sky Island Alliance (Southern Arizona and New Mexico)
Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance
Wild Connections (Colorado)
Wild Earth Guardians (US Southwest)
Wilderness Support Center (The Wilderness Society)
Wilderness Workshop (Colorado)
Wyoming Wilderness Association
NATURAL HISTORY / INTERESTING INFORMATION
Animal Base – Taxonomy. A copyright-free open access to historical zoological works. Provides manually verified lists of names of zoological genera and species in a database that should include most names of zoological taxa established from 1757 until 1788.
Encyclopedia of Life - mission is to increase awareness and understanding of living nature through an Encyclopedia of Life that gathers, generates, and shares knowledge in an open, freely accessible and trusted digital resource.
Listen to Nature – 400 samples from the British Library collection of a vast array of sounds from nature. While you’re there, check out The Language of Birds.
Discover Life - organized taxonomically, the All Living Things section provides descriptions, photos and other information about 270,000 global species.
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