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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Arts & Culture, Education, Physical & Earth Sciences, Technology, Undergraduate Colleges
Mission: The wrangell mountains center fosters understanding, appreciation, and stewardship of wildlands and mountain culture in alaska through scientific and artistic inquiry in the wrangell mountains.
Programs: The organization sponsors camps, workshops and programs to study the geology, ecology and cultural history of the wrangells. Workshops include the plant, animal and bird life of the region, and are designed for various ages from children to adults, including a family camp, where families increase their knowledge of the landscape around mccarthy and boost their wilderness survival skills.
the organization sponsors a scholarship fund with an endowment from its members. Scholarships are awarded to deserving students of the organization's programs. A formal selection process has been established whereby a committee chooses scholarship recipients each spring.