Welcome to the National Wilderness Stewardship Alliance website!

A new organization, a new website -- Welcome to NWSA and our online home.  With your help, we hope this will become a vital center for wilderness stewardship groups to support each other and help foster new groups to protect our enduring wilderness resource.

 

Case Statement

"About Us" is the text of our draft Case Statement, broken into sections for easier web reading. Several readers have asked to have the same text as a downloadable pdf, so they can print the text as a one-page handout.  Here it is:  pdf NWSA Case Statement .
 

Wilderness Organizations

Find volunteer opportunities in your state and with national and regional organizations

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Register! Troubles?

Click "Login" in the upper right-nand corner, then click "Create an Account," fill in the form, and submit it.  We'll email you as soon as we have you signed in.  Troubles?  Anything that isn't as it should be?  Please contact us.
 

First Meeting!

The Founding Members
Meeting Participants
 Sixteen wilderness stewardship organizations from around the nation and representatives from six national NGOs, plus assorted students and expert consultants, met in Fort Collins, CO, March 5-7, 2010 to discuss the value of a national network of wilderness stewardship groups and to outline its functions, initial structure, and mission. The 40 attendees agreed on the strong need to work together, and formed the National Wilderness Stewardship Alliance.
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Draft Mission Statement and Vision

The mission of the National Wilderness Stewardship Alliance is to develop a growing network of volunteer-based organizations to provide stewardship for America's enduring resource of wilderness.

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