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It's time for our Fall WilderNews newsletter!
 
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   artwork by Carol Hartman
 
ABWF Accomplishments in 2018!


One!  Number of new websites launched by the ABWF in 2018!  Check ours out if you haven't already!   Go To: www.ABWilderness.org


The ABWF conducted 30 educational programs that reached over 1250 people of all ages--from snowshoe hikes with elementary kids, to film showings highlighting the 40th Anniversary history of the A-B, to college lectures on the value of Wilderness.


Three Artists-in-Residence came to the A-B Wilderness to do their thing in 2018...A writer, a composer, and an oil painter!  (See Carol Hartman's work above of the Bear's Tooth).


ABWF hired 5 Interns who contributed 2453 total hours of inspired labor, starting an educational program for the ABWF, assisting Forest Service Trail crews, helping rehab an area on the Froze-to-Death Plateau, and bolstering ABWF Volunteer trail projects! Below Brigit cares for a pack horse on the Gardiner District, and Amelia prepares dinner after a day of trailwork in the backcountry of the Yellowstone District..

 

Completed a total of 8 Trail Projects in 2018, most of them led by our new Program Director & Trail Crewleader, Heather Briggs.  Seventy-one volunteers put in 1165 hours of work clearing & repairing trails.


Traute Parrie and Jesse Logan continue to spearhead the publication of an incredible volume of essays, artwork, and beautiful maps exclusively about the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness Area!  Go to www.ABatlas.org!


We continued to spread the word about our Trail Ambassadors program that posts volunteers like yourselves at busy trailheads to inform wilderness users how to lessen their impacts.


Over 1100 of you have volunteered for the ABWF since 2011!  Thank you so much, volunteers, for your nearly 30,000 hours helping the ABWF with wilderness stewardship work!  

 
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Warren Johnson hoists a bucket of sand to load onto one of his mules for transport up the Knox Lake Trail.  Warren and Sue Johnson run Hells' A-Roarin' Outfitters in Gardiner, MT and volunteer their time, their stock, and their vehicles assisting the Forest Service (and the ABWF) on many service projects over the years.  To read about Hell's A'Roarin' Outfitters & how they help USFS, read our latest newsletter!
 
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In 2018, the ABWF really ramped up its Educational Outreach, particularly to school kids.  Here a group of middle school kids from Billings, part of a joint program between Indian Education for All and the Montana Conservation Corps came out and cleared/widened the Willow Creek Trail outside Red Lodge. 

To read more about the ABWF's Educational Programs read our Newsletter!
Breaking News...From the Custer Gallatin National Forest...

A new bridge for horses and foot traffic was just installed by the Custer Gallatin NF over the West Stillwater River at Initial Creek Campground.  It was designed to improve access to the West Stillwater Trailhead, especially for horse traffic.  The trailhead parking lot at the W. Stillwater is quite small and virtually impossible to get horse trailers in and out of.  Now, however, you can park your rig and trailer at Initial Creek campground where there is oodles of space, and then follow a 3/4 mile trail that crosses the new bridge and ends up at the current trailhead.  Here, the CGNF's Mark Rebella works on the span across the W. Stillwater River.

A Big Thank You to All our Donors who gave through this Year's Fun Run for Charities!

Happy Fall, Y'all!
 






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