Mission: To promote stewardship of our public lands by engaging the community in volunteer trail and restoration projects.

Programs: Natural resource conservation and protection, general: rfov conducted more than 132 project days in the field with volunteers in 2017.(this is an increase from 29 days in 2010). More than 3,633 people including 2,453 youth, participated on 2017 projects and classroom activities, up from 826 total participants in 2010.Rfov has three programs to engage volunteers: 1) public projects - we work with land management agencies and other project partners to develop and conduct volunteer projects with long-lasting results. Our projects are one to seven days in duration and typically involve 25 to 75 volunteers each; 2) group work days/adopt-a-trail - we encourage small groups and individuals to volunteer to care for parks or sections of trails either as an organization's service component (group work days) or to provide ongoing maintenance on an adopted area; 3) young stewards initiative (ysi)- we motivate youth by providing first-hand knowledge of the significant role they play in caring for our precious lands. We provide an outdoor service experience grounded in the greater context of stewardship and conservation principles. Ysi partnered with more than 35 organizations and school groups in 2017 on outdoor service projects or winter classroom programs. The service projects are very similar to our adult programs, but the work is tailored to the different age groups' physical abilities.