Indian Peaks Wilderness Alliance

The mission of the Indian Peaks Wilderness Alliance is to preserve and protect the Indian Peaks and James Peak Wilderness areas located in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains - a short 1/2 hour drive west of Boulder, Colorado. As a smaller, well established, and 100% volunteer based non-profit (we have no paid positions within our organization or Board of Directors), we achieve our mission via the following programs:

*Training volunteers to assist the United States Forest Service (USFS) with patrolling IP/JP trails during the summer months (typically June through September).

*Promoting wilderness and alpine research through providing research grants to University of Colorado (CU) student(s).

*Performing community outreach wilderness trail projects with organizations such as the University of Colorado Baker Residence Academic Program (BRAP) focusing on restorative trail work in the wilderness areas, while at the same time educating a younger generation on the importance of preserving and protecting wilderness in the United States.

In 2015 we expanded our programs to include (1) a Wilderness Ranger Internship Program for college students, and (2) a winter patrol program. We will be developing additional new programs to help achieve our mission in 2017.