Become A Dave Foreman Wilderness Defender

Wilderness Defenders are the eyes, ears, and hands protecting New Mexico’s wild places. When you volunteer with New Mexico Wild, you join a community taking real action—from monitoring remote landscapes and restoring trails to speaking up for public lands or supporting the work behind the scenes. However you show up, you’re helping keep New Mexico’s lands healthy, wild, and protected for generations to come.

The Dave Foreman Wilderness Defenders volunteer program was named in honor of the late Dave Foreman who forged a deep and rugged path through wilderness conservation and activism.  It would be difficult to overstate the contributions Dave Foreman, Co-Founder of New Mexico Wild, made to protecting Wilderness and wild things, and for advancing concepts like rewilding. In 2024, the Denver Public Library released The Dave Foreman Papers, an archive of materials related to Dave’s life and work spanning 1905-2023.