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By Lida Wise, Wilderness Conservation Corps Crew Leader I am clambering hands and knees through an endless tunnel of rhododendron,...

by Eric Giebelstein, Wilderness Ranger I was recently tasked with finding an elusive abandoned campsite in the Saint Mary's Wilderness....

By David Cohen, Wilderness Ranger It is beneficial for a Wilderness Ranger to occasionally travel beyond where the trail ends. In my...

By Emily Patton, Crew Member Wilderness Conservation Corps (WCC) Citico Creek, Shining Rock, Iron Mountain, Joyce Kilmer, and the Black...

By James Lautzenheiser, Crew Leader I like remote, unpopulated places. Fewer humans, more wildness. Finding myself in wilderness has...

By Scotty Bowman, Field Supervisor Some people call it a sling blade. I call it a swing blade, while others call it a grass whip. What it...

By Heather Eggleston, Wilderness Ranger I pause mid creek on a round red rock. I look where the water comes from and where it is going...

By Charlie Smillie, Wilderness Ranger It’s a beautiful day in the Wilderness neighborhood, here on the Chattahoochee-Oconee National...

By Eric Giebelstein, Wilderness Ranger While monitoring for solitude in the wonderful Ramsey's Draft Wilderness in Virginia, I came...

Read all about it! Correspondent Delene Beeland interviewed The Wilderness Society's SAWS Program Director, Bill Hodge for an article...

By Heather Eggleston, Wilderness Ranger It is my third time into Ramsey’s Draft Wilderness area. I am starting to trust the trail, to...

by Nathan Mynatt, Wilderness Ranger I saw a bear today! Not much of one, only a wide black butt-end crashing into the undergrowth, but I...

by Eric Giebelstein, Wilderness Ranger I'm so enthused to be back for my second season as a Wilderness Ranger for Southern Appalachian...

Charlie and I have developed a fairly irksome habit, which is that we seem to be getting everything wrong the first time. For example, we...

June 4-11, 2014: The 2014 Wilderness Conservation Corps (WCC) crew kicked off their field season in early June. During their first...

Dear Wilderness, When we first met, I didn’t know how much I would come to love you, how much you would mean to me. I was quite young,...

It’s been well over a year since I've worked in Wilderness. My previous season working for The Wilderness Society’s Southern Appalachian...

From The Asheville Citizen-Times, May 2014. (View on the Citizen-Times website) It’s still not easy to get to Cold Mountain. Much as it...

Come spend an evening celebrating the champions of Wilderness with The Wilderness Society and friends! Honor leaders past and present who...

The Wilderness Society's SAWS program and the Wilderness Crew of the Carolina Mountain Club were featured in an article in the Smoky...