Advocacy PARTNERS

The People that make UP Mountain Bureau LLC have convictions.

“This is not philanthropy. This is the cost of doing business on planet earth.”

-Yvon Chouinard

  • We care about protecting the environment. It is our workplace and provides us all recreation opportunities.

  • We mentor awareness around single-use-plastics and how it infiltrates outfitting outdoor programing.

  • We offer programs and events that support associations sustaining our climbing and skiing venues.

  • We work closely with federal land managers on their mission’s around resource preservation.

  • We support associations that influence Federal policy to protect open spaces and mitigate science proven human-influenced climate change.

  • We support associations that are socially responsible with regard to the well being of mountain guides.

  • We support associations that are support the biodiversity that sustain the environment and our food supply.

 

POW- Protect Our Winters

THe strongest voice in the outdoor industry addressing the issue of climate change. POW helps passionate outdoor people protect the places and lifestyles they love from climate change. We are a community of athletes, scientists, creatives, and business leaders advancing non-partisan policies that protect our world today and for future generations. https://protectourwinters.org/our-work/

Cascades Wolverine Project

The Mountain Bureau LLC is a donor to the grassroots effort supporting wolverine recovery in the North Cascades. Mountain guide Steph Williams and author & photographer David Moskowitz are field biologists that do collaborative field studies, visual storytelling, and build backcountry community science. Based in the Methow Valley of Washington, their team installs and maintains remote winter camera-trapping stations in the North Cascades that contribute to ongoing monitoring and conservation. They produce outreach methods to provide backcountry skiers and snowmobilers field observation tools and wildlife awareness, to help ensure the wolverine persists in the Pacific Northwest. It’s one of the Mountain Bureau LLC’s favorite projects happening in the cascades and needs your support to continue.
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WCC- Washington Climbers Coalition

The WCC 501c3 has been advocating for the preservation of public access to Washington climbing areas since 2004. We believe that climbers need a collective voice or our interests will be lost among the cacophony of concerns facing land managers, public policy makers, and private property owners who hold the keys to the land we so dearly love. The Mountain Bureau LLC is a proud supporter of the WCC and donar via the #MVClimbers, the Methow Valley Chapter.

Access Fund

When a climbing access or conservation issue occurs in your backyard, who will be there to help? The first and best line of defense is almost always the local climbers like the Methow Valley Climbers of the WCC. That’s why a critical piece of Access Fund’s work is inspiring and organizing local climbers to join together to protect and conserve climbing areas. Working together as a national network of climbing advocacy organizations, we’re protecting more climbing areas than ever.

 
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METHOW HEADWATERS

The Mountain Bureau LLC was a donor to the Methow Headwaters Campaign. This local movement became a national level campaign. We successfully blocked the development copper mine via a Canadian Company on the north end of the Methow Valley that would have disrupted the lives of this community, and the valley’s watershed with little pay back. The business community mobilized around this issue because of concerns over its potential impacts on clean water and natural open spaces, our drinking water, the fish in the river, tourism, outdoor recreation, agriculture and real estate. Local organizations such as the Mountain Bureau LLC have been engaged in the campaign, while other groups, such as The Wilderness Society, have provided technical assistance. Headwaters Video

AMGA- American Mountain Guides Association

As America’s voice for guides, the AMGA is ensuring our community is at the table and actively shaping a positive future for facilitated access in the United States. Powered by the Advocacy Team working with lawmakers, agency officials, local land managers, guides, the public, and industry partners to promote policies that improve recreational access to public lands for facilitated groups. The AMGA Advocacy Program is driven by a need for fundamental change in the outfitter and guide permitting systems of the federal land agencies. Outdated regulations and excessive red tape are preventing guides from getting the permits they need to serve the public on public lands. This is preventing large segments of the American population from experiencing the legacy of America’s public lands and the enjoyment of outdoor recreation in these special places.

PATAGONIA

Patagonia is in the business of saving the home planet. We aim to use the resources we have—our voice, our business and our community—to do something about our climate crisis. Patagonia’s self-imposed Earth tax, 1% for the Planet, provides support to environmental nonprofits working to defend our air, land and water around the globe. Patagonia Social Success