Our Mission
The Wildwood Open Lands Foundation is dedicated to conservation of natural and cultural resources.
Our Vision
To establish, grow, and sustain an interdependent, tri-focused, organization that promotes conservation through 1) adventuring across Nevada and around the world – sharing our experiences as we travel, 2) stewardship, acquisition, and operations of undeveloped/open lands in Nevada for the public good, and 3) providing education surrounding natural sciences, outdoor ethics, responsible recreation at the place where users meet the resource.
Our Values
- Respect – Protect and preserve natural and cultural diversity
- Humility – Humbled to be custodians of mindful change
- Wonder – Revive inspiration within ourselves and others
- Knowledge – Seeking understanding, enlightenment, and education
- Wanderlust – An insatiable desire to travel and explore
Our Guiding Principles
- What is valued is preserved. The most impactful way to personally value something is when you establish a direct personal connection to it. Wildwood Open Lands Foundation is a channel of communication. Through our travels to natural and cultural locations around the world, experiences documented, and photographs taken, we hope to inspire others to travel and make personal connections to the lands that they explore and within the places they live
- Through exemplifying our values in our decisions, communication, engagement, and lifestyles, without explicitly ever stating them, we shall inspire others to pursue the same understanding of the world around them.
- Share knowledge shamelessly and behave accordingly
A Tri-Focused Approach
Inspiration
Wildwood Expedition serves as the research, travel, outreach, and publishing arm of the Foundation.
What is valued is preserved. We strive to generate value in this way by sharing direct personal connections. Wildwood Expedition is a channel of communication. Through our travels to natural and cultural locations around the world, the words used, and photographs taken, our publications are aimed to inspire others to travel and make personal connections as well.
We openly invite other travelers, explorers, researchers, and scientists to participate in exploratory trips as well as to contribute to Wildwood Expedition publications.
Conservation
Wildwood Conservancy is the land preservation operation of the Foundation.
Conservancy’s goals are stewardship, acquisition & preservation for the public good, management and maintenance of natural and cultural reserves in Northern Nevada.
Once established, Conservancy shall establish a baseline understanding of the land’s dynamic nature. We intend to develop operations that serve to conserve the natural and cultural characteristics of the reserve.
Education
Education is Conservation.
We are focusing on providing education surrounding natural sciences, historical and cultural context, outdoor ethics, and responsible recreation.
Our vision for Wildwood Heritage is to establish a permanent facility in Northern Nevada in a location suitable to generate ease of access to the general public.
