Join Friends of the Inyo and the Inyo National Forest for a backcountry volunteer trip in the White Mountains from June 19 - 21, 2026 The mission! Volunteers will spend 2 nights camped along upper Cottonwood Creek in the White Mountains. Cottonwood Creek is a federally designated Wild and Scenic River, home of a nursery population of the Paiute cutthroat trout, a fish listed as Threatened under the Endangered Species Act. Volunteers will work for two full days on dismantling obsolete barbed wire fencing and other debris in upper Cottonwood Creek and Tres Plumas Meadow. Tasks will involve cutting and...

Join Friends of the Inyo and the Inyo National Forest for a backcountry volunteer trip in the White Mountains from July 23rd - 27th, 2026!  The mission! This may be the most physically challenging stewardship trip yet! Volunteers will hike 15 miles deep into the beautiful and remote Golden Trout Wilderness and spend 3 nights camped along Golden Trout Creek, home of the California state fish: the Golden Trout. Volunteers will work for two and a half days on dismantling and removing obsolete barbed wire fencing and repairing  trail infrastructure in Little Whitney Meadow. The first day, July 23rd, will be for...

Join Friends of the Inyo and the Inyo National Forest for a backcountry volunteer trip in the White Mountains from September 4-7, 2026!  The mission!  Volunteers will spend three days helping restore a degraded meadow by constructing low-tech restoration structures in small stream channels. This will consist of hauling rocks, cutting and moving logs and shoveling dirt in a mountain meadow and constructing small structures such as rock dams, beaver dam analogs, and bank reinforcements within a stream channel. This work will help revitalize meadows in the remote White Mountains, a key source of water and forage for deer, antelope,...