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All-women SAWS field crew on Tusquitee Bald. Photo by Kristy Ealdwine<\/p><\/div>\n

By Emma Castleberry<\/p>\n

Southern Appalachian Wilderness Stewards (SAWS) was founded in 2010 to address the need for stewardship across the southeast. Wilderness maintenance is a unique challenge\u00ad\u2014the areas are remote and difficult to access, and often the use of motorized tools like chainsaws is prohibited. Sometimes local trail clubs are reluctant to support the designation of new wilderness because they don\u2019t have the capacity to maintain it. \u201cSAWS was born from this need for stewardship, particularly from young adults and the next generation of conservation stewards,\u201d says SAWS executive director Kaitlin de Varona. \u201cWe provide capacity and care for wild public lands in the Southern Appalachian Mountains.\u201d<\/p>\n

Founded in 2010, SAWS has a broad scope of work, including improving sustainability and access in wilderness areas as well as providing planning and management support, data collection, safety and risk assessment, post-disaster recovery, invasive species management, volunteer training and management, and visitor education and engagement. The group\u2019s service area includes the 87 wilderness areas in the Forest Service Southern Region, totaling approximately 800,000 acres. \u201cThese are mostly small, yet extremely valuable tracts of land that happen to be within a one-day drive to half of America\u2019s 330 million people,\u201d says de Varona.<\/p>\n

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Stonework by SAWS field crew, Bald River Gorge Wilderness, TN.<\/p><\/div>\n

September of 2024 will be the 60th anniversary of the passage of the Wilderness Act. To understand the importance of SAWS, one must understand that the federally designated wilderness located within national parks and national forests is managed differently than adjacent non-wilderness lands. Land within a wilderness boundary is subject to stricter preservation rules that often prohibit roads, motorized vehicles and structures. \u201cMany people refer to \u2018wilderness\u2019 as the woods or a forested area,\u201d says de Varona, \u201cbut wilderness can also have a very specific meaning in public land management. Sometimes it is very intentionally undeveloped and natural.\u201d<\/p>\n

Every year, SAWS organizes the Southern Appalachian Wilderness Skills Institute (WSI), an award-winning training partnership between the Appalachian Trail Conservancy, the US Forest Service and SAWS. Hosted at the Cradle of Forestry in America in Pisgah Forest, WSI is a free two-week stewardship training experience that features designated wilderness education and traditional tool courses. Since its inaugural year in 2011, an estimated 1,500 individuals have attended WSI.<\/p>\n

As one might expect for an organization of this size and scope, volunteering opportunities are varied and abundant. Paul Dickens, board member and treasurer with SAWS, volunteers regularly, offering traditional tool training for tools like the crosscut saw and ax which are used to clear downed trees off of trails in wilderness and backcountry areas. \u201cSAWS is very effective at putting \u2018boots on the ground\u2019 to address trail maintenance and land management needs in wilderness and backcountry public lands,\u201d he says. \u201cThrough SAWS I get to train and do trail work with many people of different generations that I otherwise would not have contact with.\u201d<\/p>\n

Important upcoming projects for SAWS include trail building in Old Fort in the Grandfather Ranger District; a trail re-routing and maintenance project in the Shining Rock and Middle Prong Wilderness in the Pisgah Ranger District; and a partnership with USFS Job Corps to provide trail crew work, experience and workforce development to help students find meaningful careers in conservation.<\/p>\n

\u201cPartnering with the Forest Service and other stakeholders, SAWS shares the responsibility to care of our wild public lands for recreation, moments of solitude and land preservation for the next generation,\u201d says de Varona. \u201cSAWS has been able to connect more communities to their wild public lands and today remains a strong example of capacity building and work accomplishment through partnerships with shared mission and values.\u201d<\/p>\n

To learn more, find Wilderness Stewards on Facebook and Instagram, or visit WildernessStewards.org<\/a> to sign up for the newsletter or register for a volunteer day.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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