Californians for Western Wilderness (CalUWild) is a California citizens' advocacy group that works to protect and restore wilderness and public lands across the western United States. Operating as a conservation project under the Resource Renewal Institute, CalUWild organizes public education, grassroots advocacy, comment campaigns, and legislative outreach to secure wilderness designations, national monument protections, and other restrictions on development or mechanized uses that it views as harmful to wild lands and watersheds.
Public lands and wilderness protection, national monument and wilderness designation, watershed and river conservation, limits on mechanized uses (including opposition to e-bikes on non-motorized trails), opposition to mining or development on sensitive public lands, and related federal and state land-management legislation and administrative rulemaking.
Primarily donor contributions and foundation grants; operates as a fiscally sponsored project funded in part through the Resource Renewal Institute, with typical nonprofit fundraising (individual donations, memberships, and grants).
Fiscal sponsor Resource Renewal Institute; frequent partners include Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, Friends of Nevada Wilderness, Wilderness Watch, Center for Biological Diversity, Western Watersheds Project, Bodie Hills Conservation Partnership; key individuals associated with the project include coordinator Michael (Mike) Painter and longtime RRI figures such as founder Huey D. Johnson and RRI leadership.
Non-profit advocacy project / sponsored program of the Resource Renewal Institute (501(c)(3))
