Forests & Wildlife
All of Sightline's research, maps, and publications on Cascadia's forests, its wildlife and ecosystems, and how to safeguard the region's natural heritage.
Sightline Institute's Cascadia Scorecard project includes a forest indicator that measures the health of Northwest forests, by monitoring clearcuts in five key areas; and a wildlife indicator that tracks the abundance of five important Northwest species, including salmon, orcas, wolves, sage-grouse, and caribou.
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Fact sheet
2007 Wildlife Indicator - At a Glance
The latest addition to the Cascadia Scorecard--Sightline's wildlife index--tracks population counts of five key indicator species: gray wolves, mountain caribou, greater sage-grouse, orcas, and Chinook salmon.
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Organization
Wild Salmon Center
The Wild Salmon Center's mission is to identify, understand and protect the best wild salmon ecosystems of the Pacific Rim. It devises and implements strategies, based on the best science, to protect these extraordinary places and their biodiversity. http://www.wildsalmoncenter.org -
Organization
Ecotrust
Ecotrust is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the emergence of a conservation economy along North America's rain forest coast, the region from San Francisco to Anchorage. http://www.ecotrust.org
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