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Ed Bangs, Gray Wolf Recovery Coordinator for the US Fish and Wildlife Service, often said in presentations that managing wolves is easy but managing people is difficult. If left alone, the species would regulate itself, but you could not exclude the various perspectives and viewpoint different communities brought to the issue. Former SAWS staff member Mason Boring learned a similar lesson about managing designated wilderness during his time with SAWS. Mason spent 4 years on s

Not many people can say one of their first conservation jobs overlapped with one of the worst natural disasters to hit a region. Aracelia Skridulis was a SAWS crew member in 2024 and experienced just that when Hurricane Helene came through. Having spent most of her life in western North Carolina, working in the region was already special. She had seen the increased demand for recreation spaces on our forest and the impacts that was having and this was her opportunity to contr