Community
Connection
Kittitas
Valley, Washington
Participating Civic Groups
and Non Profit
Organizations
Meeting times and
contact
information:
Cascade
Land Conservancy
Our mission is to
protect our region's wild
and open lands to sustain the natural beauty and health of the
environment, now and for generation to come. Cascade Land
Conservancy works with individuals, community groups, companies and
local governments to preserve natural lands forever. Our goal is
to maximize the ecological value or our region's landscapess, while
meeting the needs of landowners. Since 1989, we have protected
thousands of acres of land in our state's most heavily populated region.
Concerned
Citizens of the Cle Elum Ridge
Ray Owens
509-674-4524 home
Concerned Citizens of
Upper Kittitas County (CCUKC)
CCUKC is an association of Kittitas
County residents and property
owners. Our purpose is to provide mutual support in opposing
rampant
re-zoning and development in the upper county and to oppose any project
that will adversely affect the quality of life, health, and environment
of upper Kittitas County.
Jim Boyle
509-649-3171
jboyle@eburg.com
Ellensburg Downtown
Association
The Ellensburg
Downtown Association was founded in 2004 with the goal of preserving
the physical structure and enhancing the economic well-being of
historic
downtown Ellensburg. The EDA is affiliated with the National Main
Street Program, which has worked successfully in over 16,000
communities across the U.S.
Jim Armstrong, President
P.O. Box 966, Ellensburg, WA 98926
509-962-MAIN (6246)
eda@elltel.net
Sande DeSalles
Chair of Design Committee
Mary Young-Ness
Chair of Organization Committee
Alan Walker
Chair of Promotion Committee
Gary Jones
Chair of Economic Restructuring Committee
Historic
Ellensburg
Our mission is to protect and preserve
the irreplaceable heritage of Ellensburg and the Kittitas Valley.
We
believe that safeguarding our historic buildings and neighborhoods is
essential to maintaining our quality of life - that such places reflect
our collective identity, teach our children, and enrich our community.
Through advocacy, education and collaboration, Historic Ellensburg
promotes progress through historic preservation.
We are a diverse group of dedicated individuals; contractors, business
owners,
artists, engineers, university professors, farmers, housewives,
students, workers, and retirees. We are recognized as a 501c3
non-profit organization. We are entirely publicly supported, and have
no paid staff.
Members have served on the city council, and on the city planning
commission. Others have been active on the city's design review board,
or served as the major, successful, grant writer in the rehabilitation
of our historic county fair and rodeo grounds. Our current major
project is to buy, rehabilitate, and use the old Northern Pacific
Railroad Station. We call the effort, Save Our Station, (SOS).
Membership is $20 per year for an individual and $25 for a
family. We
are always seeking new members, so please consider attending a meeting!
Meetings are generally held once per month and everyone is welcome.
KEEN - Kittitas
Environment Education Network
The Kittitas Environmental Education
Network is a group of concerned individuals working together to
promote, advocate and publicize environmental education within the
Kittitas County community.
KEEN organizes and produces the "Get Intimate with the Shrub-Steppe!
"event held in May of each year at the Umtanum Creek Recreation Area
and the "Nature of Night" in November of each year.
Kittitas
Audubon Society
Kittitas Audubon Society is a Washington Chapter of National Audubon
Society serving the communities of Kittitas Co, WA, along the I-90
corridor from the Cascade summit (Snoqualmie Pass) through the
beautiful Kittitas valley to the Columbia River.
The mission of the KAS is to develop an appreciation of nature through
education and conservation with a focus on birds. Our goal is to be a
vibrant, active organization recognized in Kittitas County.
Monthly meetings are held each third Thursday at 7 PM in Ellensburg
High
School (look for signs). We suspend monthly meetings during the summer
in favor of field trips. Announcements are in the papers (The
Daily Record and the NKC Tribune).
Join us the first Saturday of each month, 8-10AM, Irene Rhinehart
Park, for our 'First Saturday BirdWalk' ...walks. All are welcome!
Kittitas Valley
League of Woman Voters
The League of Women Voters, a
nonpartisan political organization, encourages the informed and active
participation of citizens in government, works to increase
understanding of major public policy issues, and influences public
policy through education and advocacy. Citizens of voting age may
become League members. The KVLWV shall not support or oppose any
political party or candidate.
Mountain to Sound Greenway
Trust
The mission of the Mountain to Sound
Greenway Trust is to "Protect and enhance a 100 mile corridor of
permanent open space lands along Interstate 90 from Seattle to Central
Washington. The Greenway embraces city parks and trails,
wildlife habitat, working and protected forests, recreational
opportunities in nature, local history, scenic beauty, tourism, and
educational activities that promote a sustainable balance between
population growth and a healthy environment.
Northwest
EcoBuilding Guild,
Central Washington Chapter:
The Northwest EcoBuilding Guild is the
Pacific Northwest’s leading association of residential builders,
architects, designers, consultants and suppliers concerned with
ecological building. The Guild’s mission is to function as an
educational forum to facilitate building practices that protect human
health, encourage sustainable resource usage and foster long term
economic vitality.
Currently our chapter is working every Saturday morning on the
strawbale
Habitat for Humanity house in Ellensburg. This is the first strawbale
house in Ellensburg - history in the making! Our chapter brings
to Ellensburg outstanding speakers from around the Northwest on
subjects from passive solar energy to planning emerging neighborhoods
to preservation of farm and ranch lands. Strawbale building is
only a small element of our public presentations.
Central Washington Chapter meets the second Tuesday of each month in
room 84, Morgan Middle School, 400 East First Avenue, Ellensburg,
WA. But please check Web site for changes to location and dates.
RIDGE
An all volunteer non-profit,
501(c)(3) organization based in Roslyn, WA. Since 1987 RIDGE has
supported economic diversity and the preservation of an Upper County
way of life that is directly linked to the forest, ridge and river
system. RIDGE is comprised of people who live in Upper County who care
about the economic and environmental integrity of the Upper Yakima
Basin. RIDGE's current work is focused in two major areas:
1) protecting open space in Upper Kittitas county from fragmentation
and
loss of public access and 2) implementing the many environmental and
community protections contained in RIDGE's 2001 Settlement Agreeement
covering all aspects of development of Suncadia Resort.
Doug Kilgore, Founding member and
current Vice President of RIDGE.
cell 206-790-8586
RIDGE P.O. Box 927, Roslyn, WA 98941
kilgore@televar.com
Solar $
Solar $ is a diversified group of landowners, civic leaders and
technicians helping landowners set goals toward good land stewardship
with an aim toward sustainability. The mission of Solar $ is to
build capacity in managers to become effective land stewards and to
promote the management of natural resources in a way that is economical
and environmentally sound and socially acceptable.