2023-04-13T11:55:32-07:00 2022-12-31 990 2022-01-01 841333391 POUDRE WILDERNESS VOLUNTEERS POUD 9702130483 2519 S Shields St Ste 1K 202 Fort Collins CO 80526 James Medlock Treasurer 9702130483 2023-04-11 1 1 11 1 AAL2 2022 2023-04-26 12:10:37Z X James Medlock 3438 Golden Current Blvd Fort Collins CO 80521 37628 0 X pwv.org X 1996 CO Poudre Wilderness Volunteers (PWV) is a Larimer County, Colorado nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization founded in 1996. It assists the Canyon Lakes Ranger District of the U.S. Forest Service in managing and protecting wilderness areas within its jurisdiction. To achieve this mission, PWV recruits, trains, equips, and fields hundreds of citizen volunteers to serve as wilderness rangers and hosts, educating the public, and providing other appropriate support to these wild areas. PWV is one of the largest, most effective organizations of its kind in the nation, having an all-volunteer organization with no paid staff. PWV members use education and diplomacy to promote compliance with Wilderness and backcountry regulations and Leave No Trace principles. In addition, PWV maintains an ongoing "Kids in Nature" program and engages in substantive trail restoration caused by cataclysmic flood and wildfire events. 15 15 0 300 0 0 93702 38464 0 0 1521 -976 372 140 95595 37628 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 637 24444 65906 24444 65906 71151 -28278 302925 260849 988 -198 301937 261047 Poudre Wilderness Volunteers (PWV) is a Larimer County, Colorado nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization founded in 1996. It assists the Canyon Lakes Ranger District of the U.S. Forest Service in managing and protecting wilderness areas within its jurisdiction. To achieve this mission, PWV recruits, trains, equips, and fields hundreds of citizen volunteers to serve as wilderness rangers and hosts, educating the public, and providing other appropriate support to these wild areas. PWV is one of the largest, most effective organizations of its kind in the nation, having an all-volunteer organization with no paid staff. PWV members use education and diplomacy to promote compliance with Wilderness and backcountry regulations and Leave No Trace principles. In addition, PWV maintains an ongoing "Kids in Nature" program and engages in substantive trail restoration caused by cataclysmic flood and wildfire events. 0 0 61844 36367 In 2022 PWV contributed a total of 17,649 volunteer hours to the USFS, worth $585,248 to the USFS. PWV members completed 831 trail patrols with 7,971 hours on the trail and had meaningful contacts with 9,579 backcountry trail users. During 2022, PWV members cleared or removed 58 illegal or oversized fire rings and discussed leave no trace principles with hundreds of violators. Members also removed 2,167 fallen trees along more than 150 miles of trail and contributed 376 hours to pull noxious weeds on National Forest lands. Other PWV programs included Adopt-a-Trail and Adopt-a-Highway, contributing to its mission of environmental stewardship and public outreach. Kids in Nature (KIN), an underprivileged child outreach/education program providing supervised access to wilderness trails. PWV began holding KIN hikes again in 2022. PWV provides outreach, membership development and education. In 2022, a great deal of PWV's work was in efforts to assist the Forest Service in the recovery of trails from the Cameron Peak Fire in 2021. The fire covered 209,000 acres and involved 120 miles on 20 Forest trails. During the summer PWV worked on these trails both clearing trees and performing drainage work. The fire destroyed the vegetation which caused increased erosion which damages the trails. Improving the drainage will stop much of the trail erosion in the future. This work was done by both PWV members and public volunteers. 0 0 Not applicable see prior. 0 0 Not applicable see prior. 0 0 0 61844 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 15 15 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 CO X X James Medlock 9702130483 2519 S Shields St Ste 1K 202 Fort Collins CO 80526 X Mark Snyder Chair/Director 0 0 X X 0 0 0 Sean Orner Chair Elect/Director 0 0 X X 0 0 0 Bruce Williams Past Chair /Director 0 0 X X 0 0 0 James Medlock Treasurer/Director 0 0 X X 0 0 0 Ruth Janitscheck Secretary/Officer 0 0 X X 0 0 0 Jean Corbin Director 0 0 X 0 0 0 Pete Ramirez Director 0 0 X 0 0 0 Rich Cappello Director 0 0 X 0 0 0 Joe Cox Director 0 0 X 0 0 0 Steve Musial Director 0 0 X 0 0 0 Jeff Randa Director 0 0 X 0 0 0 Jim Branch Director 0 0 X 0 0 0 Jennifer Collins Director 0 0 X 0 0 0 Dan Schultenjann Director 0 0 X 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 38464 0 38464 0 0 0 0 0 -976 -976 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 140 0 140 140 0 0 0 37628 -836 0 0 X 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1950 0 1950 0 388 0 388 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 78 0 78 0 1009 0 1009 0 Outreach, Membership, Education and Trails 61844 61844 0 Fund Development 637 0 0 637 Not applicable see prior 0 0 0 0 Not applicable see prior 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 65906 61844 3425 637 84734 60335 95792 93581 0 12054 9789 5432 8000 373 1128 15566 14603 963 1116 1046 103424 86007 302925 260849 988 -198 988 -198 X 235701 228463 66236 32584 301937 261047 302925 260849 -28278 -18361 0 3186 2563 0 X 0 0 0 X 48686 48627 48704 93352 38463 277832 783 616 -199 373 140 1713 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 49469 49243 48505 93725 38603 279545 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 279545 1946 11989 1521 -976 14480 0 0 0 0 0 1946 11989 0 1521 -976 14480 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 51415 61232 48505 95246 37627 294025 0.95075 0.93985 0.04925 0.06015 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15566 0 14603 963 0 0 0 0 963 Endowment 86007 86007 Schedule D, Part I, Line 4 Endowment fund for PWV held at Community Foundation of Northern Colorado Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 6 Poudre Wilderness Volunteers has approximately 300 volunteer members. Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 7a Poudre Wilderness Board members elect the next set of Board Members and Officers annually during October. Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 8b The Executive Committee can make decisions between Board of Directors meetings. Decisions made between meetings are presented for information to the Board of Directors at the next meeting. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b The Treasurer and Bookkeeper prepare and review Form 990. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 Poudre Wilderness Volunteers governing documents, minutes of Board of Director's meetings and Annual Meeting minutes can be found at https://www.pwv.org/about-us/documents-minutes. Poudre Wilderness Volunteers does not have a conflict of interest policy. Poudre Wilderness Volunteers financial statements are part of each month's Treasurer's Report which is posted as part of the minutes of each month's Board of Director's meeting at https://www.pwv.org/about-us/documents-minutes. Form 990, Part IX, Line 11g In 2022, Fees were paid to organizations providing trail restoration services, primarily for restoration from the Cameron Peak Fire.