by wilderness | Dec 15, 2009 | conservation, Phoenix Commotion, recycle, TerraCycle, video
Last week, we highlighted the ingenuity of volunteers with a short post on the capabilities of geotextile, a seemingly obscure material that, thanks to some resourceful and creative minds, has become an invaluable backcountry work tool.Keeping with that theme of... by wilderness | Dec 9, 2009 | nature, Tips
The following article is from the Arizona Daily Sun in Flagstaff, Wednesday, December 09, 2009.Tempe firefighter killed by tree snapped by windA Tempe firefighter was killed by a falling tree during severe winds Monday evening. According to information from the... by wilderness | Dec 6, 2009 | Escalante, flood, invasive species, Russian Olive, southwest, trail work, video
Escalante River Canyon, UT (2009)When he’s not teaching Latin American Literature at UC San Diego, Wilderness Volunteer trip leader Misha Kokotovic is busy battling invasive Russian Olive trees – notorious for choking off rivers and streams in the West... by wilderness | Dec 3, 2009 | geotextile, tools, trail work
A reader contacted me about the survey at the top of this page with precisely that question.Since I had never heard of geotextile before using it on a trip two years ago, she’s likely not the only one out there with this question. So I figured I’d share... by wilderness | Dec 2, 2009 | conservation, nature
Here’s a neat take on “biodiversity,” courtesy of artist Christoph Neimann.