Groups Promoting the Outdoors for Personal Development
Jason William Hunt Foundation
Supporting At-Risk Youth Through Outdoor Experiential Education
The Access Fund (1989)  www.accessfund.org
A national non-profit organization dedicated to keeping climbing areas open and to conserve the climbing environment. Some of Jason's friends established a memorial scholarship with this organization..

Appalachian Mountain Club (1876) www.outdoors.org
The nation's oldest conservation and recreation organization

Leave No Trace (1994) www.lnt.org
A national non-profit organization dedicated to promoting and inspiring outdoor recreation through education, research, and partnerships. 

American Trails www.americantrails.org
The only national. nonprofit organization working on behalf of all trail interest.

Rails to Trails (1986)  http://www.railtrails.org/                   
To enrich American communities and countryside by creating a nationwide network of public trails from former rail lines.





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This page was last updated: December 22, 2009
In 2006 the Leave No Trace East Coast Traveling Team visited JWHOLTC and worked with the summer camp kids.
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