Ventana Wilderness Alliance

Join Us!

We hope you'll join us by becoming a member of the Ventana Wilderness Alliance. The VWA is a California nonprofit corporation with IRS 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status. All contributions, including membership dues, are fully deductible from your taxable income. Joining is simple!

Join or renew at or above the $50 level and receive a 100% organic cotton T-shirt with the VWA’s Double Cone logo based on an original print by Tom Killion. Along with membership, if you so choose, comes subscription to the ventanawild email listserv, a communal email forum where all things pertaining to the region are openly discussed.

If you would prefer to join by mail: just print out the pdf version of our membership form, fill it out, then return it with your tax-deductible dues check to the address on the form. If you have any questions about becoming a member, feel free to contact us at vwa@ventanawild.org. Rest assured that we will not share your personal information with any other groups, individuals, organizations or corporations.

Why join the VWA?

• We Get Things Done- In 2010, VWA volunteer trail crew members gave back over 4500 hours to rehabilitating and restoring trails, from Black Cone to Cone Peak, to the Buckeye.
• We're Building Tomorrow's Stewards Today- Through our Youth in Wilderness program, we directly combat Nature Defecit disorder by connecting local youth to wild places.
• We're Effective- For over a decade, VWA has helped preserve new Wilderness, reformed damaging land use practives and worked collaboratively to ensure protection of wild rivers wildlife habitat, public acces and cultural resources.
• We're Local-the VWA is the only group focused soley on protecting the wilderness qualities and biological diversity on the public lands in the northern Santa Lucia Mountains and Big Sur Coast.
• We're Efficient- For the first half of 2011(our most recent figures), VWA spent 91 cents of ever dollar directly on our Stewardship and Advocacy programs.
• And because you love the Ventana Region and the Big Sur Coast!

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