Earth Island Institute
For The John Muir Trail Wilderness Restoration Program
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Amount$100,000
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Program
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Date Awarded8/18/2019
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Term12.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Overview
The John Muir Trail Foundation (JMTF) is a fiscally sponsored project of Earth Island Institute. This grant will support the JMTF’s wilderness restoration program, which runs across the John Muir Trail (JMT) in the heart of the California snowpack. The area includes the full length of the JMT, 213.7 miles from Yosemite Valley to the summit of Mt. Whitney, as well as the lateral access trails extending approximately 20 miles east to west across the region. The restoration program’s goals are to (a) successfully restore and manage the JMT’s most highly impacted wilderness, habitat, watershed, and riparian terrain; (b) provide master plans for visitor logistics at major trailheads; and (c) design long-term management strategies incorporating satellite-based field devices and a common IT platform for effective cross-regional management of the JMT backcountry.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.earthisland.org
Address
2105 Allston Way, Suite 460, Berkeley, CA, 94704, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for PGM ONE strategic planning and development
A project of Earth Island Institute, PGM ONE envisions a world that centers, values, uplifts, and empowers those who are most impacted by environmental harm and climate change — and in particular black, indigenous, and people of color/the global majority. The project, which engages with advocates from across the field of land and water conservation, is conducting a strategic planning exercise and launching an evaluation of its impact. It is also working to offer webinars and online conversations this year in place of its annual summit to share, learn, collaborate, heal, celebrate, build community, find support, and deepen practice to uproot the systems of oppression and mobilize to transform individuals, movements, and society. (Western Conservation Substrategy: Building Conditions for Enduring Conservation.)
for the Bay Area Wilderness Training program
Bay Area Wilderness Training, a program fiscally sponsored by Earth Island, provides low-income, at-risk urban youth with the skills and resources necessary for camping and wilderness experiences. They work with youth workers and teachers in after-school programs, school districts, community centers, and a wide array of social service agencies to reach youth from different neighborhoods, and cultural and economic backgrounds. Their programs will get 8,000 youth outdoors. The trainings offered to adults from youth-serving organizations and schools include a five-day Wilderness Leadership Training course, Frontcountry Leadership Training program, and Camping at the Presidio program.
for the Bay Area Wilderness Training program
Bay Area Wilderness Training, a program fiscally sponsored by Earth Island, provides low-income, at-risk urban youth with the skills and resources necessary to expose them to camping and wilderness experiences. They work with youth workers and teachers in after-school programs, school districts, community centers and a wide array of social service agencies to reach youth from different neighborhoods, and cultural and economic backgrounds. Their programs would get 7,000 youth outdoors. The trainings offered to adults from youth-serving organizations and schools include a five-day Wilderness Leadership Training course; Frontcountry Leadership Training program; and Camping at the Presidio program.
