Policymakers
Up one levelOur policy work focuses on congressional education, providing resources for community-based forestry practitioners and regional organizing. SNW also coordinates and convenes the Rural Voices for Conservation Coalition, a collaborative group of western rural and local, regional, and national organizations that have joined together to promote balanced conservation-based approaches to the ecological and economic challenges facing the West.
Learn more about our policy networks and resources:
- Sustainable Northwest Policy Program
- 2010 Western Week in Washington
- Rural Voices for Conservation Coalition
- Policy Issue Papers
- House Subcomm Hearing
- House Subcomm Hearing
- Montanan, Idahoan “Tied to the Land” Testify in D.C.
- The message to Capitol Hill: "We are new voices. We are not the voices of industry and we are not the voices of environmentalism. We are a third way ...”
- Extending a hand of partnership...
- On a day when SNW partners testify before the House Subcommittee On National Parks, Forests And Public Lands, Maia Enzer shares her perspective.
- July 15, 2010 Subcommittee Hearing
- House Natural Resources Committee, Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands oversight hearing on “Locally Grown: Creating Rural Jobs with America’s Public Lands”
- Parks, Forests and Public Lands Hearing link
- Redirect for Parks Forests and Public lands Hearing link