Society for Wilderness Stewardship | A professional society working to set the standard for wilderness management.

A professional society working to set the standard for wilderness management.

2016 National Wilderness Workshop - November 7-10, 2016 REGISTER NOW

Thursday, May 5, 2016 - 20:51

Get ready for outdoor cooking season with the Wilderness Ranger Cookbook.

Wednesday, December 2, 2015 - 22:22

Join as a BUSINESS MEMBER today and post wilderness jobs, receive wilderness publications, and connect with instructors for your Wilderness Ranger Academies.

Tuesday, November 17, 2015 - 04:26

Join as a SUPPORTER today and receive an engraved leather-covered Rite in the Rain notebook.

Friday, November 6, 2015 - 17:18

Become a Mentor for the Wilderness Stewardship Certificate Program.

Monday, November 2, 2015 - 22:35

Join as a STEWARD today and receive an embroidered Patagonia down jacket.

Monday, October 19, 2015 - 20:34

Join as a CHAMPION today and receive our 'Then & Now Wilderness Book Collection' in an engraved leather satchel.

Monday, October 19, 2015 - 17:58

STUDENTS and SEASONALS: Join today to be paired with a professional mentor and receive discounts from Aerie Backcountry Medicine, Mountain Hardwear, Asolo, and Cascade Designs.

Monday, October 19, 2015 - 17:50

Breathe, Water. Breathe, Switchback. Breathe, Peak.

Escaping into a world where the only things you hear are: Your own breath, the babbling brook, and the songs various songbirds. These are some of the reasons one seeks wilderness. In order to best understand Wheeler Peak Wilderness and its respective summit I needed to be inside its boundaries.

Wilderness...Value of the Land

Wilderness is as unique as the passions that drive the communities to protect these landscapes. The wilderness experience is managed by those who find that their passion is to protect unique features of these landscapes for generation to come. Traveling throughout the intermountain region I have met these passionate communities and listened to the diverse challenges that each wilderness face.

Enter the Wilderness in Fossil Ridge

Tucked away among legendary mountain ranges like the Elks and the Sawatch lays a secret. Many people often go near it, but never actually enter. This place, the Fossil Ridge Wilderness, is both wild and serene—a paradise landscape obscured by its more well known surroundings.

A Journey Into the Gros Ventre

To walk in the Gros Ventre Wilderness is to take a step back through history; to imagine yourself as a cowboy riding along the ridges; to envision your ancient ancestors traversing the mountains, moving seasonally with their food supply. The landscape is so serene in the Gros Ventre that you easily find yourself able to sit and just think. For hours. You feel no need to check your cellphone, no worries about your unanswered emails, and no fussing over how many “likes” your last Instagram received.

Wilderness Character: A Concept

Wilderness itself conjures up images of numerous things: images include of being a pioneer of a new area, a land that one is able to see and experience natural processes first hand, or perhaps, just get out and experience some time away from our increasingly busy lives. Regardless of the reason we choose to spend time in wilderness it’s important for us to also recognize that these qualities are tied to decisions and actions that resource managers make in both direct and indirect ways.

Climate Change and Wilderness Areas

This installment of our Wilderness Discussion Series is hosted by Nicole Wooten. Every month we're highlighting a significant wilderness management issue, and we want to hear your thoughts.

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The Society for Wilderness Stewardship is a non-profit, charitable organization under the 501 (c)(3) section of the Internal Revenue Code.

Breathe, Water. Breathe, Switchback. Breathe, Peak.

Wilderness...Value of the Land

Enter the Wilderness in Fossil Ridge

A Journey Into the Gros Ventre

Wilderness Character: A Concept

Climate Change and Wilderness Areas

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