by wilderness | Jun 26, 2013 | 150th birthday, 2013 trips, backpacking, camping, dolly sods, hiking, Leave No Trace, nature, the nature conservancy, west virginia, wilderness, Wilderness Stewardship Volunteer
We know we’re not the only WV out there. The fine state of West Virginia is celebrating their sesquicentennial this week. It’s a state that has an abundance of wild lands and that’s worth celebrating! This fall we’ll be...
by wilderness | May 17, 2012 | bears, pct method, Tips, video, west virginia
Jasper Nat’l Park, Canada (2009)Our inaugural trip last year into West Virginia’s Cranberry Wilderness – 1 of 8 projects in the east in 2011 – led us into the middle of 90,000 acres of beautiful hardwood forest, which up until 2007 was a black...
by wilderness | Feb 7, 2012 | dolly sods, Gandhi, quotes, volunteer vacation, west virginia
Cranberry Wilderness, Monongahela Nat’l Forest (WV), 2011I recently came across these words in a book I’ve been reading:”To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.” – Mahatma GandhiWell put. Each time I...
by wilderness | Jul 19, 2011 | John Denver, music, nature, volunteer, west virginia
Dolly Sods, Monongahela National Forest, WVIn less than two weeks, Wilderness Volunteers heads to “Wild and Wonderful” West Virginia for our first ever service trip in “The Mountain State.” That’s right: WV in WV!We’ll spend the...
