Volunteer for Wilderness
Summer 2008
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Volunteers for
Wilderness! |
This summer, travel through Wilderness Areas
and learn to map weeds and monitor recreation impacts.
Volunteers are needed to monitor weeds and
recreation impacts in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Area
in Montana and the Gospel Hump Wilderness Area in Idaho.
Join experienced leaders for 2-4 day wilderness trips that
contribute to the understanding and conservation of our
local wildlands. Backcountry experience helpful but not
necessary. Dinners and transportation from some locations
are provided. Volunteers receive t-shirts and prizes.
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Volunteer mapping
weed location |
Summer 2008 Volunteer Trips:
Please contact the Wilderenss
Institute if you are interested in volunteering!
Sign up now! Email wi@cfc.umt.edu
or call 406.243.5361.
To learn more about the Selway Bitterroot
or Gospel Hump Wilderness Areas, visit www.wilderness.net.
Learn more about
the Citizen Science program>>
Monitoring in Wilderness
If wilderness areas are to remain natural, pristine places
as the Wilderness Act envisioned, we need to monitor wilderness
conditions and ensure that managers have the information
they need to steward these areas. This project provides
critical monitoring data to wilderness managers on invasive
plants and recreation sites. Data on invasive plants will
provide important information on key vectors of invasion,
and, over time, longer term trends in vegetation change.
Recreation site inventories provide managers with much needed
information about recreation use and associated impacts.
This monitoring data will provide the Forest Service with
the information necessary to develop detailed plans for
on-the-ground restoration and other management actions,
where appropriate and desirable.
Wilderness
Institute
College of Forestry & Conservation
The University of Montana,
Missoula, Montana 59812
Tel: (406)243-5361; E-mail: wi@cfc.umt.edu
