Entries by Margosia Jadkowski

We’re hiring!

July 11, 2025- After nine years at the helm, Brad Borst will be leaving the Trust later this year. So we have begun the search for our next Executive Director. The ideal candidate will join a mission-driven organization with deep roots and proven impact, leading strategic initiatives that balance conservation urgency with practical partnership development. […]

Join us in welcoming Tim Northrop to our board of directors!

July 11, 2025- Tim is the Senior Director of Development at the California Polytechnic State University’s College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences. He is an experienced leader in nonprofit and higher education fundraising, land conservation, project management, and creating strategic initiatives and programs that have high impact. As the Connecticut State Director for the […]

Public access protected as the Weminuche Wilderness grows

June 25, 2025- Earlier this year we shared the news that we had acquired a 30-acre private inholding in the Weminuche Wilderness of southern Colorado. Now we are thrilled to announce that the property has been transferred to public ownership to be protected as designated wilderness. Running through the property are both Needle Creek and […]

Protecting the Land and Water Conservation Fund

June 13, 2025- During his first term, President Trump signed the Great American Outdoors and Dingell Acts into law, permanently authorizing and funding the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) with broad bipartisan support. Since LWCF was first established in 1964— the same year the Wilderness Act was passed— it has used revenue from offshore […]

Join us in welcoming Stu Smith to our board of directors!

May 31, 2025- Join us in welcoming Stu Smith to our board of directors! You may recognize Stu as the retired GIS professional who has volunteered his time over the past few years to help create our first of its kind GIS-based inventory of private wilderness inholdings and edgeholdings. Stu has not only brought his professional […]

From wilderness to your tap

May 16, 2025- When most people turn on their taps at home, they are unaware of the journey the clean water flowing from it has taken to reach them. Whether pumped from deep in the ground, collected from streams and rivers into reservoirs, or traversing hundreds of miles through complex networks of aqueduct and pipes, […]

Celebrating a season of growth: An announcement from Brad Borst

May 2, 2025- This week our spring newsletter is hitting mailboxes across the country. In it we celebrate how our recent work is benefiting public access, connected landscapes, and protected watersheds in some of your favorite wilderness areas; get into the weeds with the anatomy of a Trust project; talk about how our work is […]

Is a virtual wilderness experience really a wilderness experience?

April 18, 2025- Unless you’re a wilderness practitioner or researcher, you probably haven’t been keeping up with the debate playing out in the pages of the International Journal of Wilderness about the intersection of virtual reality and wilderness. Through a series of articles, Keely Fisher, a researcher at Ohio State University, and writer Paul Keeling explore how […]

Join us in welcoming Liz Seger to our staff

April 4, 2025- We are thrilled to welcome Liz Seger to our staff as our new Director of Philanthropy. Liz lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and brings outstanding experience and expertise in fundraising, as well as a love for wild places, to the Trust. She holds a B.A. in Russian History and Religious Studies from […]