This month, KUNC is launching Get Involved Colorado, a monthly series spotlighting a local organization that offers listeners an opportunity make a difference where they live. By volunteering their time, KUNC listeners can make a meaningful contribution and help to build a stronger community. This month, we feature Wildlands Restoration Volunteers.
Wildlands Restoration Volunteers is a non-profit organization that provides an opportunity for people to come together, learn about their natural environment, and take direct action to restore and care for the land. Recent wildfires and floods have ravaged Colorado鈥檚 open spaces, forests, and streams, adding to the impacts from their close proximity to fast growing, urban areas.
Wildlands Restoration Volunteers grew out of volunteer projects organized by founder Ed Self in 1999. Officially established in 2002, WRV volunteers had completed 358 projects and contributed over 234,046 volunteer hours, valued at more than $4.4 million toward the care and restoration of public lands by its 10th anniversary, and has a full slate of projects planned for this year across Colorado.
Whether you like to get outdoors, get your hands in the dirt, or enjoy contributing editing skills to produce a newsletter, WRV has opportunities, and a need, for volunteers.
