The Wilderness Fellow and Dayen Program works with land management agencies to manage wilderness. It employs highly educated and trained young professionals and places them with land management agencies across the country.  Fellows may be newer to wilderness work while Dayens usually have experience working in wilderness management. The program was designed to do three things:

1.  Increase capacity where necessary for wilderness managers to accomplish complex, professional, wilderness tasks.

2.  Address the backlog of wilderness stewardship work across the National Wilderness Preservation System.

3.  Groom the next generation of wilderness professionals and connect them to people and places of work.
 

Fellows and Dayens work on all manner of wilderness stewardship and management issues, from wilderness character, to outfitter and guide permitting, to minimum requirements analysis, and everything in between. Fellows and Dayens are hired to match agency needs, and are trained extensively in the subject matter they will be working with. To host a Fellow or Dayen, contact Heather MacSlarrow at h.macslarrow@wildernessstewardship.org.

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