Play a BIG Role on the 2025 Big Thicket National Preserve project!
This April we’re heading to Southeast Texas for a new project: Big Thicket National Preserve (BTNP). If you’re unfamiliar with Big Thicket National Preserve, let’s catch you up: BTNP was established on October 11, 1974 BTNP less than 2 hours away from downtown Houston...
2024 Wilderness Volunteers Photo Contest
It's time to revisit your camera rolls to find your best Wilderness Volunteers photos for our 2024 Photo Contest! We have great prizes for the winners of some fun categories: All Things Work - Pictures depicting project work, the tools used, hiking on the trail, etc.,...
T-Shirt Design Contest
Calling all artists & graphic designers! We are excited to announce our first-ever T-Shirt Design Contest! We are looking for a new t-shirt design for our 2025 Project Season - and we need your help! Anyone can submit their design to be featured on a limited...
Meet the WV Board of Directors
Have you ever wondered what it takes to serve on WV's Board of Directors? What kind of time commitment is it? What do you do? Is it rewarding? Fun We're kicking off a series of interviews with our Board members to answer those questions and more! Our first interview...
Get To Know the Mokelumne Wilderness
Maybe you've heard of the Mokelumne Wilderness, the Mokelumne River, or another example, but have wondered "How do you pronounce Mokelumne?" Say it with me: moo-ka-la-mi. The name Mokelumne means “people of the fishing nets” in Miwok, and is the band of Miwok peoples...
To Visit & Volunteer with Reverence
We got the chance to chat with Jeffrey Morris, the Outdoor Recreation Planner at Canyon of the Ancients National Monument to learn more about our planned project and this area. This Colorado National Monument is 260 miles northwest of Albuquerque, NM, 110 miles...
2023 Wilderness Volunteers Photo Contest
One of our favorite community activities is the annual photo contest and we're excited to kick it off! This contest is open to all project leaders and volunteers who participated in a 2023 Wilderness Volunteers project. It's time to sit down with your phone, your...
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...
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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.
