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Wild and Scenic NPS YouTube Playlist!The NPS now has a Wild and Scenic video playlist on YouTube, check it out! PWSR FellowsIntroducing the current NPS Fellows!
Hannah Volk Hannah Volk is a graduate of Brandeis University with a degree in Environmental Studies and Music. More specifically, she enjoys working in conservation of shorelines and waterways. She has experience conducting research at the National Aquarium and working with coastal towns in Downeast Maine to preserve working waterfronts. She is originally from Branford, CT, spending much of her time growing up exploring the beaches and canoeing on local rivers, which has significantly contributed to her passion for the field. In her spare time, she enjoys hiking, traveling, and photography.
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Olivia Wilson Olivia Wilson recently graduated from Mount Holyoke College (MHC) with a degree in Environmental Studies and Gender Studies. She has been restoring ecosystems since middle school and during undergrad worked as a field team researcher with the Restoration Ecology lab on campus, where they tested active and former cranberry bogs along the Massachusetts coast as part of a collaboration with other environmental scientists to determine the benefits of restoring these agricultural plots to their natural, mainly wetland, ecosystems. She also has experience using ArcGIS and making story maps through other projects. Olivia likes to cook and master vegetarian dishes, spend time outdoors, and do a variety of arts and crafts like making jewelry and she has a passion for sustainable, organic farming and making sure her house plants are thriving.
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Jackie Dias Jackie Dias started a second term fellowship as a River Conservation Fellow earlier this year after completing her first term with Partnership Wild and Scenic Rivers. Prior to her first term, Jackie earned a Master of Science in Environmental Conservation with a focus on Environmental Policy and Human Dimensions from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her researched focused primarily on economic and ecosystem service contributions of forests participating in the USFS Forest Legacy and Forest Stewardship Programs. Jackie has a strong passion for community conservation, land access, outdoor equity, and science communication. In her spare time, she is the co-founder and co-Program Coordinator for the Latino Outdoors Western Massachusetts team. Here, she encourages Latine families and individuals to comfortably and confidently recreate outdoors in a welcoming atmosphere. Outside of her work, you can find Jackie taking walks with her partner and pup, playing video games, baking, or cuddling with her cat, Luna. Photo of Jackie Dias PWSR Speaker SeriesStay tuned for upcoming PWSR Speaker Series events. PWSR Gatherings 2022 PWSR In-person Gathering took place on Florida's only PWSR! Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility (DEIA)
Find out more about how NPS is working to improve Relevancy, Equity and Inclusion.
WSR CoalitionThe mission of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Coalition is to protect and defend existing and potential Wild and Scenic Rivers and broaden the movement for their conservation by raising awareness about their value. Visit the WSR Coalition website for more information on upcoming events.
Hill Week
Rivers Hill Week 2024 Save-the-date: Virtual learning sessions February 13-15; DC hill visits March 18-22, 2024.
Please see the NPS WSR News webpage for more WSR News. As a way of connecting, celebrating, and sharing their stories, the PWSR News was created, and produced every few years since the early 2000s. The audience for the PWSR News is predominantly the partnership rivers and those that work to protect them, though each installment has been shared with river organizations and those interested in learning more about Wild and Scenic River designation using the partnership model. For the most recent PWSR News, with the assistance of NPS Communications Fellows Cassidy Quistorff and Christian Kelly, the Partnership Wild and Scenic Rivers program launched a new style of virtual newsletter. For each partnership river, the newsletter highlights their success stories within their designation month. Connecticut’s Farmington River, which was designated in August of 1994, was the first river to be highlighted. The project will concluded with the May 2021 issue, highlighting the May 8, 2008 designation of the Eightmile River in CT. Below are links to the editions of the PWSR News Volume 6 produced in 2020-2021. PWSR News Volume 6For the most recent PWSR News, with the assistance of NPS Communications Fellow Cassidy Quistorff, the Partnership Wild and Scenic Rivers program launched a new style of virtual newsletter. For each partnership river, the newsletter highlights their success stories within their designation month. Connecticut’s Farmington River, which was designated in August of 1994, was the first river to be highlighted. The project concluded with the May 2021 issue, highlighting the May 8, 2008 designation of the Eightmile River in CT. Below are links to the editions of the PWSR News Volume 6 produced in 2020-2021. Each month has a link to each of these formats - the NPS webpage or the Constant Contact email.
Past PWSR NewsPast newsletters can be found below in two formats, a traditional PDF or a Word Document developed to make the use of screen readers a little easier.
We invite you to explore Wild and Scenic River Currents, an annual newsletter designed to share stories about National Park Service (NPS) wild and scenic rivers and the community of people working to protect and enhance them. These stories feature many people working tirelessly to improve our free-flowing rivers for current and future generations.
If you would like to highlight upcoming events on your PWSR, please send information to shana.stewart[at]vtwsr[dot]org! |
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