The Poudre Wilderness Volunteers (PWV) is a wilderness trail stewardship organization, who “Hike and Ride with Purpose”. Their members serve as volunteer wilderness rangers and host hiking and horseback riding trails in support of the Canyon Lakes Ranger District of the US Forest Service. They patrol the trails through hiking, riding, and backpacking. They assist the Forest
Service in maintaining the trails, removing fallen trees, educating forest visitors and providing support to these public lands.
Poudre Wilderness Volunteers
The group patrols over 280 miles, along 69 system trails, covering 650,00 acres of Wilderness, general National Forest, and National Grassland lands.
PWV has been a valuable contributor to the Forest Service since 1996, due to the ongoing commitment and passion of the members to supporting the public trails. “Our members gain a good deal of satisfaction in being able to hike and horseback ride the trails, while interacting and assisting the public.” said Jim Zakely, Recruiting committee co-chair. “Supporting the health of the trail now helps ensure they are available for future generations, and that appeals to our members,” added Celia Walker,
Recruiting committee co-chair.
PWV is currently recruiting new members and applications will be accepted through Monday, March 6, 2023. For more information
regarding applying for membership or to learn more about PWV, visit www.pwv.org. Poudre Wilderness Volunteers Poudre Wilderness
Volunteers is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation. PWV has over twenty-five years of experience working with the U.S. Forest Service, specifically the Canyon Lakes Ranger District in Fort Collins, CO. The organization is comprised of over 300 individuals who live primarily in northern Colorado and who range in age from 18 to 80 years old. The group consists of retirees as well as people still actively working in such fields as medicine, education, public and private administration and business.
Since 2005, PWV has donated a total of over 370,000 volunteer hours, worth $10,594,989 to the USFS.
Tasks include:
• Serve as volunteer Rangers for the USFS
• Launch patrols to survey trail conditions
• Remove dangerous and fallen trees
• Repair bridges
• Recruit members of the local communities to safely assist our crews in trail building
For more information, visit www.pwv.org.