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Preserving Wilderness to Keep it Wild and Full of Adventure

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Wilderness Work

Here at SWS, we preserve Wilderness to keep it wild and full of adventure. We do this by partnering with Wilderness managers to set the gold standard of Wilderness management. Our work is driven by our members, who make up our Community of Practice.

Wilderness Store

Looking for a great way to support SWS and your next wild adventure? Shop our store! We have a bunch of awesome finds that will keep you organized and warm whether you're in the wilderness or playing on the living room floor with your wild grandbabies. Check out the store here, or go directly to one of our collections: Vintage Adventure,

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Wilderness Workshop

Let your next wild adventure lead you to the National Wilderness Workshop! Every fall we team up with the National Wilderness Stewardship Alliance to put on the National Wilderness Workshop at locations around the country. We tackle emerging issues in wilderness with the newest research and best discussions. Save the date for our 2019 Workshop, which will take place in Bend, Oregon, from October 23 to 26. Our theme this year is around the nexxus of

Wilderness Fellows

The Wilderness Fellows program is SWS' premier vehicle to preserve wilderness and keep it wild and full of adventure.

Wilderness Towns

A large part of designating a wilderness area is identifying it's boundaries. Will it go over or around this mountian? How close to this road or town? What habitat should it include? But as we all know, the boundaries we drawn on maps are human in nature - they do not dictate the ecological processes or start or end of habitat. And how an adjacent (or gateway) town functions affects nearby wildernesses. Noise and light pollution, recreation and incursion, loss of biodiversity, heat emanating from blacktop.

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