What We Do
Since 2019, we have provided training, tools, and leadership for volunteer driven trail maintenance projects across central Idaho.
How We Do It
Volunteers are led by paid, former-agency staff and/or long-term volunteers. All leaders are extensively experienced in backcountry work and travel, and emphasize the transfer of these skills to volunteers in order to build additional volunteer and leadership capacity. Most of our trips are multi-day hitches, where groups hike deep into the backcountry and complete quality work.
Volunteers have the opportunity to be trained and gain skills such as: USFS Sawyer Certifications, use of traditional tools, Leave No Trace principles, the history of the American conservation movement, and networking opportunities as advocates for our public lands.
We collaborate and work with local groups and organizations.
Our Volunteer Partners
PUG’s Primary Roles and Activities
Provide stewardship training, tools, and leadership for volunteer projects focusing primarily on trail maintenance, but also invasive species control, wilderness condition monitoring, rubbish removal, outdoor education, and event support.
Promote awareness of public land recreation and wilderness management challenges.
Develop community stewardship, with an emphasis on youths aged 16-25, while also facilitating adult and expert participation.
Support the history of wild public lands, instructing in the use of traditional tools and ethical backcountry travel.
Foster diverse partner relations and grow the community of active stakeholders in public land matters.
Practice and teach Leave No Trace principles and outdoor ethics on all field projects.
Enter into contracts, agreements, cooperative activities, and other programs with any person or entity in furtherance of the above.