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Ground Truth Trekking: Expeditions to explore environmental issues.
Check out these groups if you want more information or to take action on any of the environmental issues we talk about here. This list includes some of our collaborators and sponsors, and is definitely not exhaustive. Contact us if you have a group you think should be added.

• Conservation Northwest - Working to protect and connect old-growth forests and other wild areas from the Washington Coast to the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia for the benefit of wildlife and people.
• Sightline - a Seattle-based think tank, working to bring about sustainability in the Cascadia region. Check out their blog: the Daily Score.
• People for Puget Sound - working to protect and restore the health of Puget Sound and the Northwest Straits through education and action.
• Washington Wilderness Coalition - preserving and restoring wild areas in Washington State through citizen empowerment, support for grassroots community groups, advocacy and public education.

• Raincoast - protecting marine and rainforest habitat on BC’s central and north coast
• Western Canada Wilderness Committee - saving wilderness and wildlife. Focussing on Temperate Rainforests, Canada's Species at Risk, Marine Ecosystems, Boreal Forest
• B.C. Spaces for Nature - committed to the conservation of wilderness and wildlife in British Columbia and beyond.
• Clearcutting Canada's Rainforests - status report from the David Suzuki Foundation.
• Living Oceans Society - promoting the need for a healthy ocean and healthy communities on Canada’s Pacific Coast.
• Ecotrust Canada - building the conservation economy, where economic opportunity improves rather than degrades social and environmental conditions.

• Alaska Conservation Foundation - support for Alaskan efforts to take care of wildlands, waters, and wildlife, which sustain diverse cultures, healthy communities, and prosperous economies.
• Alaska Coalition - network of conservation, sporting, labor and religious groups that work to keep Alaska’s wild places protected for future generations.
• Alaska Wilderness League - Washington DC - based group devoted full-time to protecting wilderness-quality lands in Alaska.
• Alaska Oceans Program - To protect and restore the amazing diversity of the North Pacific’s ocean ecology, including fish, wildlife, and seabirds and their habitat, while providing for sustainable human uses.
• Trustees for Alaska - a public interest law firm whose mission is to provide legal counsel to sustain and protect Alaska's natural environment.
• Alaska Conservation Solutions - giving voice to the pervasive consequences of global warming in Alaska while pursuing solutions.

Southeast Alaska

• Southeast Alaska Conservation Council (SEACC) - working to to safeguard the integrity of Southeast Alaska’s unsurpassed natural environment, while supporting the sustainable use of our region’s natural resources.
• Sitka Conservation Society - working to protect the temperate rainforest of southeast Alaska and Sitka's quality of life.
• Alaska Rainforest Campaign - coalition of national and Alaska conservation groups working to protect the remaining wildlands of the Tongass and Chugach National Forests from clearcutting and other harmful development.
• Southeast Alaska Wilderness Exploration, Analysis, and Discovery - supporting a balance between human use and ecological health and striving to facilitate a well-informed public involvement in local land use planning.

South Central and Southwest Alaska

• Renewable Resources Coalition - protecting the ongoing viability of Alaska's fish and game resources in Bristol Bay and the habitat upon which they depend
• Eyak Preservation Council - protecting the inherent rights of culture, heritage, language, and ancestral lands needed to preserve the Eyak Tribes' continued existence as an independently recognized Alaska tribal nation.

• Ecotrust - committed to strengthening communities and the environment from Alaska to California.
• Wild Salmon Center - dedicated to conserving the most important places for wild salmon across the North Pacific. (includes Russia and Asia as well as North America)
• State of the Salmon - dedicated to improving understanding of salmon status and trends across the North Pacific
• Earthworks - dedicated to protecting communities and the environment from the destructive impacts of mineral development, in the U.S. and worldwide.
• Natural Resources Defense Council
• Trout Unlimited - to conserve, protect and restore North America's coldwater fisheries and their watersheds.
• American Rivers -
• Wilderness Society - Delivering to future generations an unspoiled legacy of wild places, with all the precious values they hold: Biological diversity; clean air and water; towering forests, rushing rivers, and sage-sweet, silent deserts.
• Sierra Club - working together to protect our communities and the planet. The Club is America's oldest, largest and most influential grassroots environmental organization.
• World Wildlife Foundation - to build a future where people live in harmony with nature
• Defenders of Wildlife - dedicated to the protection of all native wild animals and plants in their natural communities.
• Environmental Working Group - Environmental investigations to expose threats to your health and the environment, and to find solutions.
• World Changing - Tools, Models, and Ideas for Building a Bright Green Future.
• Grist - Environmental News and Humor
• Audubon Society - to conserve and restore natural ecosystems, focusing on birds, other wildlife, and their habitats for the benefit of humanity and the earth's biological diversity.