Our goal is to improve wilderness stewardship and create an allied constituency for wilderness by connecting stewardship organizations with each other, linking our efforts and experiences, directing groups to resources, and fostering new organizations.
Our objectives:- Identify wilderness stewardship groups nationwide, in order to determine the present level of support.
- Through our website, and other resources, share knowledge, experience and expertise among local, regional, and national steawrdship organizations.
- Provide new groups with start-up models of different structures, help them anticipate the questions that typically arise as groups form, and put them in touch with people who have built successful organizations.
- Sponsor national and regional gatherings of stewardship groups.
- Help foster a culture within managing agencies that values volunteer-based stewardship organizations and has the means to give them effective support.
- Expand organizational capacity.