With just a few days left in 2016, President Obama designated two new national monuments, protecting over 1.6 million additional acres of our nation’s public lands.Bears Ears National Monument (named for two distinctive buttes that rise high above Cedar Mesa)...
Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (GSENM) is celebrating their 20th anniversary in 2016! Wilderness Volunteers has been working with Grand Staircase-Escalante for 18 of those years doing a variety of projects, from backcountry restoration to eradication of...
In just a few short weeks, the 2015 Wilderness Volunteers project season will kick off with a full trip to the Mojave. Get out of the cold and into the wilderness with projects across the southwest (and Hawaii), such as these projects on the Colorado Plateau:Moab...
Photo of the San Rafael Swell, from photographer Vera de Kok, Spaces are available on a spring WV service project in one of the most striking areas of the Colorado Plateau – the San Rafael Swell. Geologically referred to as a massive domal...
We’re pleased to announce the winning entries from the 2014 WV Photo Contest, sponsored by Mountainsmith, Sea to Summit, Crazy Creek and Ribz. We received more than 100 submissions, representing the majority of projects we had in the field in 2014. There were so...
Join Wilderness Volunteers on our second annual project in the La Sal Mountains of the Manti-La Sal National Forest, July 27 – August 2, 2014. The La Sal Mountains are the second highest range in Utah and offer miles of trails, great wildlife viewing, abundant...
