Self-description: The National Center for Conservation Science & Policy is a 501(c)(3) non-profit conservation science and policy organization with a mission of creating science-based solutions to protect and restore the life processes and ecological vitality that sustain all lands, waters and communities. Our work focuses on three main program areas: Intact Ecosystems, Clean Water and Climate Change Preparation, each of which includes projects built on three major strategies, including:

• Conservation Science Initiative: Initiating original research and synthesizing existing science on emerging regional and national resource management and policy issues
• Science In Action Initiative: Constructing an effective "science bridge" to disseminate key scientific findings to decision-makers, the media, conservation groups and other stakeholders, and the general public so that credible, effective policy initiatives are developed and instituted
• Headwaters Heritage Initiative: Providing on-the-ground pilot projects that showcase potential policies in action. All projects are selected strategically for their ability to be exported to other communities facing similar resource management questions

Actual: Re-invented 1970s ultra-radical civil disobedience mob allied with ultra-elite, highly educated socialite-activists that succeeded in destroying most resource extraction industries in Southern Oregon by the early 2000s and now, merged with the gigantic World Wildlife Fund, works to shut down all Southern Oregon business by obstructing development according to the principles of "conservation biology" - the world without people - and lobbying governments to accept the claims of foundation-funded, non-elected scientists with self-interest in generating alarmist findings to obtain more study grants while anti-free enterprise lawyers dismantle what is left of the regional economy.
In 2008, a major threat emerged in the form of a $50,000 grant from Seattle's Bullitt Foundation to NCCSP "To support basin-scale analysis of likely climate change impacts on aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems in the Rogue and Klamath watersheds of southern Oregon, and the use of this information to guide climate preparation actions on the part of state and local governmental entities."
The "likely" scientific findings are pre-arranged to alarm and justify drastic "climate preparation actions", i.e., shutting down all business, by local, state, and national government.
NCCSP is one small node in a national network operating with vast funding to destroy the economy in the name of "conservation science," which disregards economic or human pain as a matter of proper "scientific objectivity" and discipline.

Headwaters has a long history of activism and funding. The following profiles flow backwards from the present to earlier times.

History of controversy:
Rick Gwynallen, Executive Director - resigned in July 2000 under suspicion of diverting foundation grant monies.
Total salaries and related expenses for 1997: $154,574.
Coalitions: Headwaters is a member organization of the Klamath-Siskiyou Alliance.

HARMS: Supported road moratorium and destruction campaign. Extensive litigation to block Forest Service timber sales and destroy resource industries.

History of distant funders:
More than half of Headwaters' historical revenue was provided by two grantors, Pew Charitable Trusts and W. Alton Jones Foundation. This group is extremely grant driven.