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Giving Something Back
Since 1997
Wilderness Volunteers has been providing affordable opportunities for everyone to participate in the hands-on stewardship of public lands since 1997. Working in cooperation with the US Forest Service, National Park Service, the BLM, the US Fish & Wildlife Service and others, you’ll be inspired and invigorated when you see how much a group can accomplish in a few days.
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Wilderness Volunteers is cultivating a passion for Wilderness! We are a national nonprofit organizing volunteers for stewardship projects in cooperation with public land agencies across the USA.
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Location: Hole in the Rock, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument
Strenuous. 3-5 daily hikes; ~300′ elevation gain.
Front country: dispersed tent camping near cars
This is a medium elevation project: ~4800′.
Join us at Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument as we work on several much-needed projects: remediating visitor impacts and dispersed camping impacts along the popular Hole in the Rock Road. The rough daily hiking distance is around 3 miles of hiking each day and less than 800 feet of elevation gain.
Location: City of Rocks National Reserve, ID
Strenuous: 4-8 mile daily hikes
Front country: Tent or car camping in a designated campground
Join us for a week of fuel reduction and planting work in the City of Rocks National Reserve. We’ll work alongside the NPS to remove dead Pinyon Pine killed by black stain root rot and will also be planting native vegetation seed to promote new growth.
Location: Grandstaff Canyon Wilderness Study Area, UT
Strenuous. Up to an 8-mile daily hike.
This is a medium elevation project: 6000+ ft.
Front country. Tent camping near cars.
Join us for a week of trail work on trails damaged by the flash flooding received in the summer of 2022.
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Watershed Restoration on the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge
This March we'll be partnering with Altar Valley Conservation Alliance (AVCA), Friends of Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge, and Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge (BANWR) for continued watershed restoration work. We had the opportunity to speak with Julia...
Planting the Seed for a Lifetime of Adventure
When I was a kid, growing up in northern Illinois, most of my friends went on vacation to the Wisconsin Dells (a water park just a few hours north) or to more exotic places like Disneyworld in Florida. For me, family vacation was always South Dakota: the Black Hills...
2023 Project Spotlight: City of Rocks National Reserve
We're ecstatic to be returning to the City of Rocks National Reserve (CoRNR) in southern Idaho. We first partnered with the City of Rocks National Reserve in 2021 for a successful project. Most folks haven't heard of City of Rocks, however, it's fairly accessible from...
