Pitch In

Pitch In

The Eagle Creek Fire damaged most of the western Columbia River Gorge. Please see Eagle Creek Fire: What Now to find ways to contribute to restoration efforts, to support our Gorge towns, and to show gratitude for those who helped during the fire.

Eagle Creek Fire
Trail runners watch the Oregon side of the gorge burn from the Washington side on Sunday, Sept. 4. The fire has since spread to the Washington side as well. © Jeff Fisher & Jennifer Love

 

Support the trails, wilderness areas, National Forests, and other destinations that make our adventures possible, and support organizations making the outdoors more accessible for all.

Protecting Our Wild Places

At the Federal Level

Follow legislation impacting the environment and Federal lands, and make your voice heard.

Check out the “rogue” Badlands National Park Twitter account, @BadHombreLandsNPS, which was started when our own government tried to muzzle its own employees. There’s a lot of good stuff here. 

Alaska

Protect Bristol Bay from new threats.

Oregon Coast Trail

Learn more about the current push to complete the trail.

Oregon

Learn about the multifaceted work of 1000 Friends of Oregon, the defender of Oregon’s innovative land use laws.

Learn about the Wild Salmon Center’s work protecting salmon strongholds throughout the Pacific Rim, including Oregon.

The campaign for the Frank and Jeanne Moore Wild Steelhead Sanctuary along the Umpqua River.

The battle for the Elliott State Forest.

Making the Outdoors Accessible

Getting Kids Outside

Big City Mountaineers: Changing Young Lives through Wilderness Mentoring. I volunteered on one of their trips in 2013, and it was awesome!

Soul River: Merging veterans and inner-city youth to be leaders for environmental justice. Chad Brown is a friend of some former coworkers, and his organization sounds awesome.

Please put down everything you’re doing and read Richard Louv’s books: Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder, The Nature Principle: Reconnecting with Life in a Virtual Age, and Vitamin N: The Essential Guide to a Nature-Rich Life.

Kickass Women

REI’s Force of Nature campaign is awesome.

Check out the organization She Jumps. Mission: To increase the participation of women and girls in outdoor activities.

POC Outdoors

A solid article by Outside Magazine on race and the outdoors.

Also, follow @brownpeoplecamping (mentioned in the above article).

Outdoor Afro! seems like an awesome organization.

Soul River: Merging veterans and inner-city youth to be leaders for environmental justice.

Veterans

Soul River: Merging veterans and inner-city youth to be leaders for environmental justice.

The campaign for the Frank and Jeanne Moore Wild Steelhead Sanctuary along the Umpqua River.