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- EIN 84-1333391
- (970) 295-6722
- 2519 S Shields St Ste 1k # 202 Fort Collins CO 80526-1855 USA
- pwv.org
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Causes: Environment, Environmental Education
Mission: Poudre wilderness volunteers (pwv) is a larimer county, colorado nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization founded in 1996. It assists the canyon lakes ranger district of the u. S. Forest service in managing and protecting wilderness areas within its jurisdiction. To achieve this mission, pwv recruits, trains, equips, and fields hundreds of citizen volunteers to serve as wilderness rangers and hosts, educating the public, and providing other appropriate support to these wild areas. Pwv is one of the largest, most effective organizations of its kind in the nation, having an all-volunteer organization with no paid staff. Pwv members use education and diplomacy to promote compliance with wilderness and backcountry regulations and leave no trace principles. In addition pwv maintains a ongoing "kids in nature" program, and has recently engaged in substantive trail restoration caused by cataclysmic flood and wildfire events. In 2017 pwv celebrated it's 22nd anniversary.
Programs: In 2017 pwv contributed a total of 24,132 hours to the usfs, worth $582,541 to the usfs. Members completed 973 patrols (with 9,825 meaningful hiker contacts). In 2017 pwv reached a total of 258 active members. During the past year, pwv members cleared or removed 279 illegal or oversized fire rings and discussed leave no trace principles with hundreds of violators. Members also removed 2,658 fallen trees along more than 150 miles of trail, and pulled noxious weeks on 114 acres of national forest lands. Other pwv programs included adopt-a-trail and adopt-a-highway, contributing to its mission of environmental stewardship and public outreach.
kids in nature (an underprivileged child outreach/education program providing supervised access to wilderness trails). In 2017 the pwv kids in nature program held 7 hikes for 42 children in partnership with northern colorado youth organizations. Plans are in place to increase the number of kin hikes in 2018.
in 2017 pwv's trail restoration program organized and implemented 6 public trail restoration workdays (142 hrs) plus 13 pwv additional member restoration workdays (260 hrs). In addition contracted with the larimer county youth conservation corps to fund one week of work of trail reconstruction. Other 2017 pwv activities included rerouting and restoration of flood damaged trails as well as reconstruction of bridges.