Our Mission
Engage the public in southern Selkirk resource and land management issues through cooperation, scientific inquiry, education and economic diversity.
Our Vision
The Selkirk Conservation Alliance is the leading and faithful advocate to all who live, love and benefit from Priest Lake and its surroundings. We are committed to understanding, supporting and protecting the environment and all living beings found here. We are dedicated to the educational programs and scientific research that support and maintain this rare and exceptional environment for future generations.
Latest News
Trestle Creek Development Update
Idaho Department of Lands (IDL) Hearing Officer Leslie Hayes RECOMMENDS THAT ENCROACHMENT PERMIT APPLICATION FOR TRESTLE CREEK DEVELOPMENT BE GRANTED! Recommended Order made public on…
The Phosphorus (and Nitrogen) Story II
Three years ago I wrote an article describing the importance of phosphorus (or rather its absence) in our Priest River/Lake watershed. Our lake and streams…
Fall Selkirk Conservation Alliance Member Drive! Please renew your membership today!
As a small, grassroots environmental nonprofit, Selkirk Conservation Alliance is dependent on not only participation from our members but also ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP DUES! Please also…
Upcoming Events
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Who We Are
The Selkirk Conservation Alliance (SCA) is a 501(c)3 nonpartisan environmental nonprofit organization founded in 1986. SCA is one of north Idaho’s oldest environmental nonprofits and has been working to protect the land, air, forests, wetlands, wildlife and WATER of the lower Selkirk Mountains and Priest Lake Watershed (over 1.75 million acres) for the past 36 years.
Featured Project
Lichen Collecting
Want to Collect Lichens with Us? Join the Selkirk Conservation Alliance as we collect arboreal lichens to support the endangered Selkirk Mountain Caribou recovery plan. Lichens collected will be dried and used by the International working group in a new maternal pen program; which will protect our remaining Selkirk herd pregnant cows and their newborn…