Wild Arizona?s award-winning Wilderness Stewardship Program?affectionately dubbed ?Wild Stew?? is a volunteer-based program, formed in 2010, to assist land management agencies with activities to maintain, protect, and restore the character of wilderness areas on Arizona?s federal public lands. The program began guiding groups of volunteers into some of Arizona?s most spectacular wilderness areas?Cedar Bench, Pine Mountain, Castle Creek, and Sycamore Canyon to name a few?to initiate monitoring the ecological and recreational conditions of these wild areas. Initially launched on the Prescott National Forest, the popularity and success of the program has allowed us to continue working on the Prescott as well as Arizona?s other national forests and BLM lands.

The goal of the Wild Stew program is to empower Arizona?s communities and volunteers with in-depth training, resources, and logistical support in order to protect and restore Arizona?s public lands; through providing positive experiences in the natural world, we also aim to cultivate land stewardship, appreciation for wild places, deeper ecological understanding, and advocacy.