Will Roush
Will Roush, Executive Director of Wilderness Workshop, leads place based conservation efforts in Western Colorado. With an MA in Environmental Science, and serves on the boards of Earthjustice and Ecojustice. He is deeply passionate about protecting public lands, minimizing human impacts on the biosphere and spending time in the woods and mountain of western North America. Will joined WW in the summer of 2009 to inventory lands for the Hidden Gems Wilderness Proposal. Currently he is the organizer and advocate for efforts to designate additional wilderness and protect the Thompson Divide. Will also conducts outreach and advocacy for WW’s federal lands policy work, organizes the Naturalist Nights winter speaker series, runs the Restoration Program, and serves on the steering committee of the Roaring Fork Valley Future Forest Roundtable. Will grew up in the Roaring Fork Valley, has a MA in Geography and Environmental Studies examining the impact of climate change on alpine ecosystems.
