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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...

Between February 23 and 28, SAWS hosted 10 students from Eastern Michigan University's Alternative Break program. The student group...

April 8, 2014 Press release from Tennessee Wild: Local community cheers Senators and urges for House introduction Chattanooga, TN (April...

From The Laurel of Asheville, April 2014 (View on The Laurel's website.) By Brent Martin When American poet, writer, and Sergeant Joyce...

Award recognizes training of youth as wilderness stewards in the Southern Appalachians Contact: Michael Reinemer, Communications Manager,...

The SAWS crew had a beautiful day on the Benton MacKaye Trail (BMT) on February 23 completing some “spring cleaning,” which is trailspeak...

From The Laurel of Asheville, February 2014 (view article on The Laurel's website) A view of Linville Gorge Wilderness from Hawksbill...

Roger Osorio served on SAWS’s 2012 Yonkers Crew, a partnership program with Groundwork Hudson Valley, and led the 2013 Yonkers Crew as...

After a few months of hibernation in the office through the coldest months of the year, SAWS is back on the ground and off to a great...

Nathan Mynatt was an intern on the 2013 Wilderness Conservation Corps (WCC) crew. He is currently a senior studying Political Science at...