by wilderness | May 19, 2012 | Uncategorized
Reeni and Jack Knudson, adventurous Wilderness Volunteers participants from Prescott, AZ, are planning to cross the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) from end-to-end in June. They are reaching out to the WV community to give them motivation and raise money...
by wilderness | May 8, 2012 | Uncategorized
It was the Spring of 2009 when I co-led a Wilderness Volunteers trip for the first time as an employee. Seeking a special experience, I chose a previously unexplored part of the country for me, and with a co-leader I trusted — Gayle Marechal, whom I’d met...
by wilderness | Mar 28, 2012 | Uncategorized
From The Wilderness Society Website:Volunteer vacations in wilderness: Spend a week helping wilderness
by wilderness | Feb 1, 2012 | Uncategorized
During last Spring’s WV service project in the Dark Canyon Wilderness of southeastern Utah, I heard the strangest and most interesting of sounds. Each night, in the evenings and early mornings I heard a repetitive “boop, boop, boop”, akin to the...
by wilderness | Jan 28, 2012 | Uncategorized
This year, Wilderness Volunteers is offering its second project in the Kootznoowoo Wilderness in cooperation with the Tongass National Forest in Southeast Alaska. This is a beautiful remote wilderness with coastal forests of Sitka spruce and western hemlock situated...
by wilderness | Jun 1, 2011 | Uncategorized
June is a special time to celebrate America’s Great Outdoors. Presidential recognition of Great Outdoors Week was begun in 1998 by then-President Clinton and has continued ever since. Since 2004, Presidential proclamation of Great Outdoors Month has come annually,...
