Below Wilderness Volunteers leader Kathleen Worley reflects on the retirement of Keith Waterfall, a long serving agency contact in the Inyo National Forest. While Keith may have moved on, Kathleen is leading another great project in the Inyo NF in 2016, this...
There are still spaces remaining on WV service projects in several outstanding wild places. Here are a few of the places that have spots available to give something back:Mission Mountains Wilderness, Montana, July 19 – 26Photo by Tammy Rinaldi, WV Service...
We checked in with Annette Smits, the North Zone Trails Coordinator for the Gila National Forest ahead of our returning service project there, June 8 – 14, 2014. We asked Annette about the area, her work and how to help, among a number of other...
Yes, I am “that girl” who decided to go to Utah after reading Aron Ralston’s “Between a Rock and a Hard Place” and watching 127 Hours – I was mesmerized by the slot canyons, the vast expanses of empty desert, the hoodoos – it just looked other-worldly. I would...
In March of 2010, I was lucky enough to co-lead a Wilderness Volunteers trip to Halape beach in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. We backpacked about 8 miles in over some fantastic lava down to the coast line and spent a week removing invasive vines and trees. These...
