A photo from WV’s 2011 project in the Jarbidge WildernessIn the far northeastern section of Nevada, just below the Idaho border, lies the remote and rugged beauty of more than 110,000 acres of Jarbidge Wilderness. With soaring 10,000’ peaks looming more than...
Chalk Cliffs of Browns Canyon, Colorado. Photo by John Fielder / Friends of Browns CanyonLast week, President Obama declared three new National Monuments under the 1906 Antiquities Act. The three areas offer a range of of educational, historical and wilderness...
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...
In a recent NYTimes editorial, Christopher Solomon states that the Wilderness Act, at 50 years, is facing a midlife crisis. Solomon cites some environmentalists that believe human intervention may be required in order to save or restore the original wilderness...
