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This project was completed on Jul 16, 2019
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Matched with Sebastian S.
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Translation
Ventana Wilderness Alliance
Translation
Project details
What we need
- Specific copy from one document (up to 1000 words) translated from one language to one other of the Organization's choice
- Note: If you need more than 1000 words translated or copy translated into more than one language, please post additional versions of this project
Additional details
We need to translate a handout into Spanish. We are designing a quad fold map, with information about the area on the opposite side. The overall size of the sheet will be 14x8.5in with the map on one side and information on the back. Half of the back side will be in English, and we need the other half to be the same but translated into Spanish. This will include information about the area, as well as guidelines for how people should conduct themselves while camping in this location.
What we have in place
- We currently have the map and information about the area, which should make it easy for you to get started. We also have the principals we want to use translated, and the ability to provide any other information you need.
How this will help
This project will save us $1,563 , allowing us to continue to fund our 3 major programs; Youth in Wilderness, Trail Crew, and Volunteer Wilderness Rangers. This will help us to further protect and steward the Ventana Wilderness.
The Ventana Wilderness Alliance will be working with the Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics for a week of education, outreach, & volunteerism focused on the spectacular Arroyo Seco Gorge, which has been selected as a 2019 Leave No Trace Hot Spot. The Arroyo Seco Gorge is a critical Ventana Wilderness entry point & an extremely popular summertime day-use destination. The goal is to teach visitors how to enjoy it responsibly and a large portion of visitors are native Spanish speakers.
Project plan
Posted by
Lucy L.
Office Manager
Our mission
The mission of the Ventana Wilderness Alliance is to protect, preserve, and restore the wilderness qualities and biodiversity of the public lands within California's northern Santa Lucia Mountains and Big Sur coast.
What we do
The Ventana Wilderness Alliance (VWA) began as an advocacy organization, with the initial objective of surveying the Wilderness qualities of roadless lands within the spectacular Los Padres National Forest
Monterey Ranger District. The recommendations of this survey came to fruition with the 2002 Big Sur Wilderness and Conservation Act, which added 54,000 acres to the Ventana and Silver Peak Wilderness areas.
However, it didn't take long for the organization to realize that these newly expanded Wilderness areas
needed much more than legislative protection. With ever-increasing visitation and a constantly
dwindling Forest Service budget, Wilderness character was compromised across popular backcountry destinations, as agency boots on the ground all but disappeared. To further complicate matters, a series of landscape-level wildfires (including the massive 2016 Soberanes Wildland Fire) wrought havoc on seldom-maintained backcountry trails and camps. Meanwhile, seasoned "Ventanaphiles" raised concerns of an entire generation obsessed with technology and seemingly detached from the concept of Wilderness.
The VWA launched a Youth in Wilderness Program to engage local young people in wildlands stewardship projects, and a Trail Program to recruit, train and deploy volunteers to restore and maintain
public trails. Inspired by the 10-year Wilderness Stewardship Challenge, the VWA soon developed a
Volunteer Wilderness Ranger (VWR) Program to replace lost agency capacity, educate visitors, and
protect Wilderness values such as naturalness, solitude and opportunities for primitive recreation.
The Youth in Wilderness program has since partnered with dozens of local schools and initiatives to
introduce nearly 2,500 students to their amazing public lands. Over 200 VWA volunteers have dedicated more than 35,000 hours to a wide range of stewardship projects such as maintaining trails and removing backcountry trash and debris. The organization has also funded contract crews from American Conservation Experience and the California Department of Forestry to tackle remote or difficult trail projects beyond the range of the average volunteer. In 2016 alone, over 100 VWA volunteers donated 6,056 hours of real-time Wilderness stewardship on 146 trailhead and backcountry outings.
Testimonials
Sebastian was great! He was very responsive, professional and efficient. He far exceeded our expectations and gave us the finished product ahead of schedule. He even improved upon what we had given him to work with. We cannot recommend Sebastian highly enough.
This was a short project with a well defined deliverable, so it took me relatively little effort to complete. Lucy was very clear with what she needed and kind and friendly on the phone and all email communications. The organization does fantastic work (educating people on how to enjoy and care the land at the same time) and I was really glad to have been involved with them. Nothing but good things to say about Lucy and Ventana Wilderness Alliance!
