WINNEMUCCA - Do you enjoy recreating outdoors? Have you been out to the Santa Rosa Ranger District in Paradise Valley? Are you interested in making a difference? Friends of Nevada Wilderness ("Friends") is a nonprofit organization dedicated to getting Nevadans connected to wild places, and improving the management and restoration of wildlands.
One of the ways they meet their mission is by "on the ground" stewardship. Friends will continue stewardship projects this 2013 field season in the Santa Rosa Ranger District in Paradise Valley.
Throughout the month of April, local volunteers will join Friends, the U.S. Forest Service and the Nevada Department of Wildlife on fire rehabilitation projects to restore land burned by the two recent wildfires. There will be three more planting projects throughout April held on each Saturday of the month with options for volunteers to camp on Friday and Saturday night. The dates are April 12 - 13, April 20 and April 27. These projects will help rehabilitate these areas and restore critical habitat for pronghorn, mule deer and other wildlife. Funding for these four planting projects comes from the Dream Tag's Charitable Fund at the Community Foundation of Western Nevada.
Friends is looking forward to working with local volunteers who enjoy recreating in the outdoors from Winnemucca, Battle Mountain, Lovelock, Reno and the surrounding areas. Whether you enjoy hunting, hiking, camping, biking, bird watching, riding ATVs, or fishing, consider joining Friends to preserve and positively impact the beauty and diversity of what the Santa Rosas have to offer northern Nevadans.
The planting projects are open to all ages despite outdoor experience or prior skills. Get your friends, family, coworkers, team, or self together and join Friends to make a difference on this burned land and for wild Nevada!
If you would like to volunteer or need more information, please check out our website: http://www.nevadawilderness.org/index.asp or find us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/#!/nevada.wilderness. You can also contact Brenna at brenna.archibald@nevadaoutdoorschool.org or (775) 623-5656.
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