WTA on YouTube

WTA's youth volunteer program continues to grow: we've added even more weeklong trips, more advanced backcountry trips, and we'll continue to work with groups on individual day trips. Do you know a young person who's looking to do a service project and would enjoy WTA's trips? 

Well, now you can show them our very first YouTube video.

How tech-savvy is that? First a Facebook page, and now a great video documenting what young people get out of our volunteer program. It was produced by documentary filmmaker Michael Peters, and it's a great summary of the rewards of trail work. There are plenty of firsthand accounts from our young volunteers. Watch it... it just might inspire you to get out on trail.

In other volunteer news, the Seattle Times recently wrote a nice editorial complimenting the organizations in the Northwest Storm Damage Coalition, including WTA and the Student Conservation Association. The Times noted that the coalition recently accepted a volunteer award from the Department of the Interior. Nice job, everyone...let's make the summer of 2008 an even more memorable volunteer season!