2008
Appalachian Mountain Club (NH)
Wild River Wilderness Restoration, Use Education and Monitoring Project
White Mountain National Forest
Wild River Wilderness Area
To perform natural resource restoration work on 3 designated campsites and conduct visitor monitoring and user education in the newly designated Wild River Wilderness on the White Mountain National Forest.
http://www.outdoors.org
California Wilderness Coalition (CA)
Yuki Wilderness Stewardship Project
Mendocino National Forest
Yuki Wilderness Area
To work with the staff of the Mendocino National Forest and other partners to improve on-the-ground management of the newly -designated Yuki Wilderness.
http://www.calwild.org
Four Corners School of Outdoor Education (UT)
Dark Canyon Wilderness Tamarisk Control
Manti La Sal National Forest
Dark Canyon Wilderness Area
To complete approximately 100 acres of invasive species tamarisk control in high infestation areas in the Dark Canyon Wilderness Area by the Canyon Country Youth Corps.
http://www.fourcornersschool.org
Friends of Nevada Wilderness (NV)
Nevada Wilderness Restoration and Monitoring
Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest
All 19 Nevada Wilderness Areas
To assist the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest in meeting the Chief's Challenge by providing volunteer restoration and monitoring and multiple Wilderness Areas across Nevada.
http://www.nevadawilderness.org
Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness (MN)
Superior Wilderness Volunteer Connection
Superior National Forest
Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness
To provide volunteers to accomplish restoration, maintenance and education project necessary to meet the Wilderness Stewardship Challenge.
http://www.friends-bwca.org
Friends of the Inyo (CA)
Sustaining Citizen Stewardship on the Inyo National Forest
Inyo National Forest
John Muir, Ansel Adams, Golden Trout, Inyo Mountains, and Boundary Peak Wilderness Areas
To build upon a three-year record of successes organizing volunteer citizen stewardship projects to maintain some of America's most heavily visited Wilderness Areas on the Inyo National Forest.
http://www.friendsoftheinyo.org
Los Angeles Conservation Corps (CA)
Sespe Wilderness Project
Los Padres National Forest
Sespe Wilderness Area
To perform 2400 hours of trail maintenance, ecosystem restoration and natural lands stewardship in the Ojai Ranger District of the Los Padres National Forest over six weeks.
http://www.lacorps.org
Montana Conservation Corps (MT)
Wilderness Protection Program
Flathead, Lolo and Gallatin National Forest
Mission Mountains, Lee Metcalf and Rattlesnake Wilderness Area
To protect Montana's Wilderness Areas from invasive plant infestations in human-caused disturbances.
http://www.mtcorps.org
Poudre Wilderness Volunteers (CO)
Region 2 Friends Groups: Meeting the Challenge
Arapaho-Roosevelt, Medicine Bow-Routt, Pike-San Isabel, San Juan, Black Hills, White River and Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests
Rocky Mountain Region Wilderness Areas
To advance the 10-year WSC in seven R2 National Forest by joining with nine Wilderness Volunteer organizations to commit $15,000 towards accomplishing on-the-ground invasive species treatment, air quality monitoring and campsite inventory work.
http://www.poudrewildernessvolunteers.com
Rocky Mountain Field Institute (CO)
South Colony Lakes Basin Trailhead Relocation and Restoration Project
Pike-San Isabel National Forest
Sangre de Cristo Wilderness Area
To enhance and restore wilderness values within South Colony Lakes basin, Sangre de Cristo Wilderness by closing 2.5 miles of FS road 120 to public motorized access, relocating the trailhead and completing associated improvements and restoration
http://www.rmfi.org
Selway Bitterroot Foundation (MT)
Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Volunteer Stewardship Program
Bitterroot, Clearwater and Nez Perce National Forests
Selway Bitterroot Wilderness Area
To aid the Forest Service in completing on the ground restoration, rehabilitation, education and public contact programs, increasing field presence and providing high quality and safe volunteer experiences.
http://www.fs.fed.us/sbfoundation
Student Conservation Association (CA)
Wilderness Trails and Stewardship Initiative
Modoc, Plumas, Stanislaus, Inyo, Sierra, and Sequoia National Forests
Warner Mountains, Caribou, Carson-Iceberg, John Muir Wilderness Areas
To deploy regionally recruited high school crews to undertake volunteer trails and wilderness stewardship service project on the National Forests in the Sierra Nevada.
http://www.thesca.org
Swan Ecosystem Center (MT)
Mission Mountains Wilderness Stewardship Partnership
Flathead National Forest
Mission Mountains Wilderness Area
To restore a popular campsite a heart lake, monitor the effectiveness of restored sites, open and maintain 46 miles of trails, meet with visitors, provide information to prevent degradation and ensure a safe experience and map and monitor weeds.
http://www.swanecosystemcenter.com
Wilderness Institute (MT)
Preserving Naturalness through Community Stewardship
Nez Perce and Bitterroot National Forests
Gospel Hump and Selway Bitterroot Wilderness Areas
To implement citizen monitoring and restoration work related to invasive plants and recreation impacts in the Gospel Hump and Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Areas.
http://www.cfc.umt.edu/wi
Wolftree, Inc. (OR)
Central Oregon Cascades Wilderness Education and Stewardship Project
Deschutes and Willamette National Forests
Three Sisters Wilderness Area
To expand and enhance Cascade crest Wilderness Ecosystem sustainability and increase the wilderness literacy of visitors through the implementation of high priority restoration and monitoring needs of the regional Wilderness education plan
http://www.beoutside.org
2007
Colorado Fourteeners Initiative (CO)
2007 Wilderness Adopt-a-Peak Project
Pike San Isabel, Arapaho-Roosevelt, Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests
Collegiate Peaks, Mount Massive, Mount Evans, Uncompahgre, and Mount Sneffels Wilderness Areas
To perform trail maintenance, recreation site inventories, and monitoring on 14,000 ft. peaks in Wilderness. Staff will also implement critical components of wilderness education plans, long term trail maintenance, and high altitude restoration.
http://www.14ers.org
Continental Divide Trail Alliance (CO)
Wilderness Trail Reconstruction and Restoration
Lewis and Clark, Flathead, Beaverhead-Deerlodge, Bridger-Teton, Pike-San Isabel, Gila National Forests
Bob Marshall, Anaconda Pintler, Bridger, Mount Massive, Aldo Leopold Wilderness Areas
To engage volunteers and youth corps crews in the reconstruction and rehabilitation of the Continental Divide Trail through five Wilderness Areas.
http://www.cdtrail.org
EarthCorps (WA)
Wilderness Capstone Project 2007
Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest
Alpine Lakes Wilderness Area
To engage an international group of young adults in a full time environmental service program to complete critical and timely repairs along the Dingford Creek Trail.
http://www.earthcorps.org
East Carolina University (NC)
Evaluating the Effectiveness of a volunteer campsite monitoring program for Southern Wilderness Areas
North Carolina National Forests
Joyce Kilmer, South Nantahala, Pond Pine, Catfish Lake, Sheep Ridge, and Pocosin Wilderness Areas
To investigate the reliability and validity of Wilderness work volunteers are performing by conducting trainings, data collection, and comparing findings between researchers and volunteers
http://www.ecu.edu
Friends of Mount Evans & Lost Creek Wilderness (CO)
Air and Campsite Monitoring, and invasive weed inventory and control
Arapaho-Roosevelt and Pike-San Isabel National Forests
Mount Evans and Lost Creek Wilderness Areas
To continue the air quality monitoring, complete invasive weed inventory, implement weed control and campsite monitoring in the Mount Evans and Lost Creek Wilderness Areas.
http://www.fomelc.org
Friends of Nevada Wilderness (NV)
Nevada Wilderness Restoration and Monitoring
Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest
All Nevada Wilderness Areas
To provide volunteer restoration and monitoring in targeted Wilderness Areas across Nevada.
http://www.nevadawilderness.org
Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness (MN)
Superior Wilderness Volunteer Connection
Superior National Forest
Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness
To provide sufficient volunteers to accomplish Wilderness maintenance, monitoring, and education projects while giving citizens an opportunity to venerate their Wilderness heritage through volunteer work.
http://www.friends-bwca.org
Friends of the Inyo (CA)
Eastern Sierra Wilderness Stewardship Corps
Inyo and Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forests
Ansel Adams, Boundary Peak, Carson-Iceberg, Hoover, Inyo Mountains, John Muir Wilderness Areas
To expand Friends of the Inyo's Wilderness Stewardship Corps, a hands-on program reconnecting youth to Wilderness through active stewardship and education.
http://www.friendsoftheinyo.org
Montana Conservation Corps (MT)
Heart of the Wilderness
Lewis & Clark, Lolo, Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forests
Bob Marshall, Rattlesnake and Lee Metcalf Wilderness Areas
To complete 12 weeks of volunteer fieldwork in three of Montana's wilderness areas which will benefit from over 1500 hours of service.
http://www.mtcorps.org
Rocky Mountain Field Institute (CO)
South Colony Lakes Basin and Peaks Wilderness Restoration Project
San Isabel and Rio Grande National Forests
Sangre de Cristo Wilderness Area
To complete critical peak summit route construction, trail repairs, restoration and planning.
http://www.rmfi.org
Selway Bitterroot Foundation (MT)
Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Volunteer Stewardship Program
Clearwater National Forest
Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Area
The Selway Bitterroot Foundation Lead Wilderness Steward will work with the Clearwater National Forest this summer on the Selway Bitterroot Wilderness to complete restoration, rehabilitation and public education and contact projects.
http://www.fs.fed.us/sbfoundation
Student Conservation Association (CA)
Traditional Wilderness Skills Workshop
Sierra National Forest
John Muir Wilderness Area
To host three traditional Wilderness trail skills workshops on the Pacific Crest Trail in the John Muir Wilderness. 50-60 agency and citizen trail workers will attend the workshops.
http://www.thesca.org
Swan Ecosystem Center (MT)
2007 Partnership for the Mission Mountains Wilderness
Flathead National Forest
Mission Mountains Wilderness Area
To restore a campsite in the Mission Mountains Wilderness and develop a protocol for long-term monitoring of restoration activities. Continue maintaining trails and campsites, providing visitor information, monitoring weeds and enlisting volunteers.
http://www.swanecosystemcenter.org
Wilderness Institute (MT)
Preserving Naturalness through Community Stewardship: Citizen Monitoring and Restoration in the Northern Rockies
Kootenai and Bitterroot National Forests
Cabinet Mountains and Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Areas
To involve community volunteers, the USFS and University of Montana in monitoring of invasive plants and recreation sites, treatment of invasives, restoration of native plants, and build capacity for citizen stewardship.
http://www.forestry.umt.edu/wi
Wilderness Volunteers (AZ)
2007 Wilderness Service Trips
Thirteen different National Forests
Thirteen different Wilderness Areas
To engage volunteers in 14, week long service trips to construct check dams, water bars, turnpikes, trail reroute, bridges and new trail across fourteen high need trails in thirteen different Wilderness areas nationwide.
http://www.wildernessvolunteers.com
2006
Wilderness Institute
2006 Citizen Monitoring and Restoration in Wilderness in the Northern Rockies
Lolo & Helena National Forests (MT)
Gates of the Mountains, Rattlesnake and Bitterroot Wilderness Areas
To monitor invasive weeds & restore native plants, and to conduct recreation site inventories. Project outcomes include detailed inventories of invasive plants & recreation sites, invasive hand-pulling, re-seeding, and increased community capacity.
Montana Conservation Corps
Bob Marshall and Rattlesnake Wilderness Stewardship Project
Lewis & Clark and Lolo National Forests (MT)
Bob Marshall and Rattlesnake Wilderness Areas
To provide trail maintenance and restoration, limits of acceptable change monitoring, dispersed recreation restoration, invasive weed mapping and treatment, non-mechanized maintenance of dams, and the removal of human structures.
Bob Marshall Foundation
2006 Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex Trails and Wilderness Restoration
Flathead, Lewis & Clark, Lolo, Helena National Forests (MT)
Bob Marshall Wilderness
To increase the Bob Marshall Foundation's capacity for placing volunteers on wilderness restoration and trail maintenance projects. The project will increase on the ground leadership & provide volunteer opportunities through work and education.
Swan Ecosystem Center
Partnership for the Mission Mountains Wilderness
Flathead National Forest (MT)
Mission Mountains Wilderness Area
To employ wilderness rangers to maintain trails and campsites, provide visitor information about safe and responsible use, and restore three impacted campsites in the Mission Mountains Wilderness.
Friends of the Eagle Nest Wilderness
Eagles Nest Wilderness Noxious Weed Treatment Project: Year 2
White River National Forest (CO)
Eagles Nest Wilderness Area
To re-treat noxious weeds treated during summer 2005 in six drainages in the Dillon District's portion of the Eagles Nest Wilderness. Two new areas of weeds will also be identified by volunteers and treated.
Rocky Mountain Field Institute
2006 Crestone Peak Summit Route Construction and Restoration Project
San Isabel National Forest (CO)
Sangre de Cristo Wilderness Area
To establish South Colony Lakes Basin and the peaks surrounding the basin as a model for "intensive use" wilderness through the completion of critical restoration and trail construction.
Friends of Mount Evans & Lost Creek Wilderness
Air Quality Monitoring, Invasive Weed Inventory and Required Registration
Arapaho-Roosevelt, Pike-San Isabel National Forests (CO)
Mount Evans, Lost Wilderness Areas
To conduct air quality monitoring, noxious weed inventory, location mapping, and required registration in the Mount Evans & Lost Creek Wilderness.
Colorado Fourteeners Initiative
2006 Fourteener Wilderness Preservation Project
White River, Uncompahgre, Pike-San Isabel National Forests (CO)
Mount Massive, Maroon Bells-Snowmass, Holy Cross, La Garita, Uncompahgre Wilderness Areas
To close and restore severely degraded social trails on Mt. Massive and to conduct a site inventory of Fourteeners in wilderness. Restoration work is coordinated with sustainable trail construction, user education, and long term maintenance.
Friends of the Nevada Wilderness
Nevada Wilderness Restoration and Monitoring
All Designated FS Wilderness Areas in Nevada (NV)
To recruit volunteer monitors for all designated areas across the state, engage local communities in on-the-ground wilderness restoration and monitoring projects, and undertake 10 restoration projects in key Forest Service Wilderness areas.
Four Corners School of Outdoor Education
2006 Canyon County Youth Corps
Manti La Sal National Forest (UT)
Dark Canyon Wilderness Area
To complete approximately 100 acres of invasive species tamarisk control in high infestation areas in the Dark Canyon Wilderness Area by the Canyon Country Youth Corps.
Los Angeles Conservation Corps
Wildlands Awareness Project
San Bernardino National Forest (CA)
San Gorgonio Wilderness Area
To conduct heavy maintenance on trails in the San Gorgonio Wilderness Area of the San Bernandino National Forest to protect sensitive habitat, ensure the safety of hikers, and provide community support.
Friends of the Inyo
Eastern Sierra Wilderness Stewardship Corps
Inyo National Forest (CA)
John Muir, Ansel Adams, Inyo Mountains, Boundary Peak, Hoover Wilderness Areas
To build on the momentum of our Eastern Sierra Wilderness Stewardship Corp with an active youth education and outreach program combining hands-on stewardship opportunities, wilderness skills classes, presentations, and a student internship program.
Student Conservation Association
Pacific Crest Trail Corps / Wilderness Trail Skills Workshop Project
Sierra National Forest (CA)
John Muir Wilderness Area
To protect and enhance wilderness and trail resources while functioning as a free-standing trail crew and hosting three, three-day training workshops in traditional trail skills. Work will be completed by a six-person trail crew.
EarthCorps
Wilderness Capstone Project
Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest (WA)
Alpine Lakes Wilderness Area
To educate and use young adult volunteers to carry out trail maintenance and repair work on-the-ground to help other visitors use the area responsibly.
2005
Swan Ecosystem Center
Mission Mountains Wilderness Ranger Program
Mission Mountains/Swan Lake Wilderness Area, Flathead National Forest (MT)
To employ rangers in the Mission Mountains Wilderness to open and maintain trails, provide visitor education, and develop/maintain restoration sites. This project engages volunteers and provides economic stability.
Montana Conservation Corps
MCC Lee Metcalf Wilderness Weeds
Lee Metcalf Wilderness Area, Gallatin National Forest (MT)
To manage invasive weeds by employing a seven person crew for 4 weeks at various sites in the Northern Unit of the Lee Metcalf Wilderness. The project involves collaboration with several organizations.
Northwest Connections
White Bark Pine Forest Restoration - Mission Mountains Wilderness
Mission Mountains/Swan Lake Wilderness Area, Flathead National Forest (MT)
To assess declining white bark pine forests across the Mission Mountains Wilderness Area and to support the Forest Service in changing the current fire management plan to accommodate prescribed burns. This project emphasizes the stewardship of public forest land.
Wilderness Institute
Citizen Monitoring and Restoration in Wilderness in the Northern Rockies
Rattlesnake, Welcome Creek & Anaconda Pintler Wilderness Areas, Lolo, Helena, Bitterroot & Beaverhead - Deerlodge National Forests (MT)
To involve community volunteers to work with field leaders to monitor and treat invasive plants and to conduct recreation site inventories. This restoration project will take place in four wilderness areas in the Northern Rockies.
Walk for Wilderness – Evergreen, CO
Required Registration, Wilderness Education and Invasive Species Inventory
Mount Evans Wilderness Area
Arapahoe-Roosevelt National Forest
To implement a required registration system to educate visitors on the wilderness regulations and Leave No Trace Principals. To conduct a noxious weed inventory, location map and an on-going monitoring in the Mount Evans Wilderness.
Rocky Mountain Field Institute
2005 South Colony Lakes Basin Restoration Project
South Colony Lakes Wilderness Area, San Isabel National Forest (CO)
To complete critical restoration and trail construction in the Basin on the surrounding alpine Peaks and to continue to establish the basin as a model for “intensive use” wilderness.
Friends of the Eagle Nest Wilderness
Wilderness Ecosystem Improvement Project (WEIP)
Eagles Nest & Ptarmigan Peak Wilderness Areas, White River National Forest (CO)
To use a weed contractor to treat areas of noxious weeds threatening the Eagles Nest and Ptarmigan Peak Wilderness. This project will also recruit and train volunteers to inventory, monitor and restore recreation sites, to identify noxious weeds, and educate.
Southwest Youth Corps
SJNF Wilderness Access Project
Weminuche & Lizard Head Wilderness Areas, San Juan National Forest (CO)
To partner with the San Juan National Forest to perform heavy maintenance and reconstruction on 10.5 miles of wilderness access trails located within the Weminucheand Lizard Head Wilderness Areas. This project provides safe and environmental access.
Colorado Fourteeners Initiative
2005 Fourteener Wilderness Preservation Project
Maroon Bellas-Snowmass Wilderness Area, White River National Forest (CO)
To restore severely degraded social trails on Pyramid Creek and a recreation site inventory for Fourteeners in designated Wilderness Areas. Restoration work is coordinated with trail construction, user education and long term maintenance.
Continental Divide Trail Alliance
Wilderness Trail Reconstruction and Restoration on the CDT
Teton, Bridger, Holy Cross, Chama River, & San Pedro Wilderness Areas, Bridger Teton, Pike San Isabel, Santa Fe & Gila National Forests (CO)
To engage volunteers and youth corps crews in the reconstruction and rehabilitation of the Continental Divide Trail through six wilderness areas in WY, CO & NM.
Wilderness Volunteers
Wilderness Volunteers Service Trips in USDA Forest Service Wilderness
Superstition, Dark Canyon, Kachina & Hunter Frying Wilderness Areas, Tonto, Manti-Lasal, Coconino, White River, El Dorado & Gifford Pinchot National Forests (AZ)
To conduct volunteer service trips to maintain trails, and perform other various tasks as determined by the Forest Service. In doing so this project attempts to increase awareness of the value of wilderness areas and the need to preserve them.
East Valley Back Country Horsemen
Packing out Barbed Wire Fence and Steel Fence Posts from Reavis Valley
Superstition Wilderness Area, Tonto National Forest (AZ)
To remove and pack out 5000 pounds of old barbed wire and steel fence posts in Reavis Valley in the Superstition Wilderness. The barbed wire has to be packed out by horses a distance of 10 miles.
Rocky Mountain Youth Corps
Restoration of Wheeler Peak Wilderness Area
Wheeler Peak Wilderness Area, Carson National Forest (NM)
To maintain and re-establish historic trails in two basins in the Wheeler Peak Wilderness Area. This project will use crews that use hand-held tools and accomplish lake-zone rehabilitation.
Cloud Peak Chapter, Wilderness Watch
Watershed Health, Cloud Peak Wilderness
Cloud Peak Wilderness Area, Bighorn National Forest (WY)
To survey chemical and biological parameters of all streams at the origin at sites within the Cloud Peak Wilderness. The data that is pulled provides information for several watersheds such as Powder River, Tongue River and Big Horn River.
Friends of the Teton River
Teton Headwaters Cutthroat Trout Population Assessment
Jedediah-Smith Wilderness Area, Caribou-Targhee National Forest (ID)
To assess Yellow Cutthroat Trout populations in Headwater tributary streams and to develop conservation strategies to protect them.
Friends of the Inyo
Eastern Sierra Wilderness Stewardship Corps
Ansel Adams, John Muir, Boundary Peak & Inyo Mountains Wilderness Areas, Inyo National Forest (CA)
To develop projects and recruit volunteers in various wilderness areas on the Inyo National Forest. This project will connect individuals and groups with ecological restoration projects, resource monitoring, recreational and educational projects.
Upper Sacramento River Exchange
Squaw Valley Meadow and Trial Enhancement Project
Mt. Shasta Wilderness Area, Shasta-Trinity National Forest (CA)
To enhance the ecological health and functioning of a high alpine meadow and tributaries to Squaw Valley Creek, by repairing degraded trails, restoring native vegetation and improving visitor awareness and stewardship.
California Trout
California Golden Trout Project
Golden Trout Wilderness Area, Inyo National Forest
To restore and protect the California Golden Trout in the Southern Sierra Nevada Mountains. This project will also continue to work on a strategy for protecting and restoring the Volcano Creek Golden Trout.
Trout Unlimited
The Golden Trout Project: Restoring and Protecting the California Golden Trout
Golden Trout Wilderness Area, Inyo National Forest
To restore and protect the California Golden trout found in the Golden Trout Wilderness. Objectives include habitat protection and restoration, genetic monitoring, educational development and outreach programs to enlist volunteers.
Pacific Northwest Trail Association
Pasayten Wilderness Water and Impact Restoration Project
Pasayten Wilderness Area, Methow & Tonasket National Forests (WA)
To solve water and trail degradation problems in the West Fork of the Pasayten River caused by trail failure, washing mud and livestock impact. Furthermore, this project performs site restoration on dispersed camping sites, old outfitter impacts and livestock.
Northwest Youth Corps
Mt. Jefferson Wilderness Stewardship and Service Learning Project
Mt. Jefferson Wilderness Area, Willamette National Forest (OR)
To collect and assess wilderness data by a team of University of Oregon students working with a US Forest Service representative. Crews will implement recreation maintenance and noxious weed removal projects, and utilize an action plan for follow-up.
Northeast Backcountry Horsemen of Washington
Salmo Basin Trail Rehabilitation
Salmo-Priest Wilderness Area, Colville National Forest (WA)
To rehabilitate the primary access to the Salmo-Priest Wilderness in Northeast Washington. In addition to trail work the Chapter proposes to prepare a weed monitoring plan in conjunction with the trail project.
Walama Restoration Project (WRP)
Obsidian Falls Native Seeds Project
Three Sisters Wilderness Area, Willamette National Forest (OR)
To expand stewardship efforts to sustain ecological diversity in the Obsidian Falls region. This project will act as a model program involving communities to reduce human impacts of recreational uses in wilderness areas.
Boundary Waters Wilderness Foundation
Boundary Waters Volunteer Stewards Network (BWVSN)
Boundary Waters Canoe Wilderness Area, Superior National Forest (MN)
To accomplish ecosystem restoration work through a cooperative network of community volunteers who engage in hands-on field and educational projects. This project is able to develop a series of measurable goals based on the set of 10 WS Challenge goals.
2004
NORTHWEST CONNECTIONS
Whitebark Pine Restoration - Mission Mountains Wilderness
Mission Mountains Wilderness Area, Flathead National Forest (MT)
To organize volunteers to assess, reforest and collect seed from Whitebark Pine stands burned in the Mission Mountains Wilderness in 2003. This effort is part of a multi-year strategy to restore Whitebark Pine in the Wilderness.
CLOUDPEAK CHAPTER, WILDERNESS WATCH
Monitoring of stream health in the Cloud Peak Wilderness
Cloud Peak Wilderness Area, Bighorn National Forest (WY)
To complete the second phase of a project to monitor stream health and to obtain baseline values for each of the streams within the Cloud Peak Wilderness of Wyoming, surveying the streams not reached in the first phase. Volunteers transport field meters in the Wilderness, do on-site measurements, and collect samples for later chemical and macroinvertebrate analysis by contract laboratories.
ROCKY MOUNTAIN FIELD INSTITUTE
2004 South Colony Lakes Basin Restoration Project
Sangre de Cristo Wilderness Area, San Isabel National Forest (CO)
To complete critical restoration work in South Colony Lakes Basin and on the surrounding peaks, one of the most popular and spectacular alpine areas in the Southern Rockies and a centerpiece of the Sangre de Cristo Wilderness. The project will also advance public involvement in the stewardship of the area, and disseminate restoration strategies and project results that RMFI has found (and will find) to be effective.
COLORADO FOURTEENERS INITIATIVE
CFI Wilderness Stewardship Challenge
Multiple Wilderness Areas, Pike-San Isabel, Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre & Gunnison National Forests (CO)
To complete extensive trail restoration through stabilization, revegetation, and closing of social trails in Wilderness Areas most heavily impacted by recreational overuse.
FOREST LEGACY CENTER
Restoring Our Wilderness Heritage
Teton, Gros Ventre and Bridger Wilderness Areas, Bridger-Teton National Forest (WY)
To create a partnership between the Forest Legacy Center, the Murie Center, and the Bridger-Teton National Forest to offer graduate students opportunities to accomplish the restoration and monitoring work needed to bring all three wilderness areas up to a base-level program standard. Local community events will celebrate the region’s wilderness heritage and invite people to participate directly in current and future wilderness stewardship initiatives.
WILDERNESS WOAD WARRIORS
Stokes Nature Center
Wellsville, Mt. Naomi Wilderness Areas, Wasatch-Cache National Forest (UT)
To increase community awareness about local Widerness Areas and encourage appropriate behavior while recreating in them as well as increase noxious weed awareness and strategic mechanical treatment in the local Wilderness Areas, Dyer's Woad.
WALLOWA RESOURCES
Hells Canyon and Eagle Cap Wilderness Weed Survey and Control
Hells Canyon and Eagle Cap Wilderness Areas, Wallowa-Whitman National Forest (OR)
To reduce the threat of weeds to Hells Canyon Wilderness and Eagle Cap Wilderness areas, in partnership with the Tri-County Cooperative Weed Management Area, through inventory, treatment with integrated pest management, monitoring and restoration. |
