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Jun 09, 2022Climbers from around the world visit California’s national parks and wilderness areas to enjoy some of the world’s best climbing, from Yosemite to Joshua...
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Jun 08, 2022GRAND JUNCTION, CO — Colorado’s Unaweep Canyon—home to exceptional sandstone and granite climbing—is in the crosshairs of a massive new energy development project proposed...
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May 11, 2022Indigenous peoples have lived on and stewarded the lands we climb on for countless generations. With that in mind, Access Fund believes that the...
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May 09, 2022On May 7, 2021, Yosemite National Park (YNP) announced a new two year pilot program requiring Wilderness climbing permits for overnight big wall climbs...
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Apr 13, 2022Access Fund, with the generous support of Backcountry, is pleased to announce more than $35,000 in Climbing Conservation Grants. From among a pool of...
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Apr 13, 2022BREAKS, VA — Conservation Team: Special Projects arrived in Breaks, VA the first week of April to support the area’s local climbing organization, Central...
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Apr 06, 2022Talented, dedicated, hard-working, motivated, unwavering—we could fill the pages of a spiral notebook and then some with superlatives about the climbing advocacy community. Even...
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Apr 01, 2022Climbers have long been among the nation’s leading conservationists, and our community has been a staunch supporter of wilderness in particular. These dual values...
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Mar 31, 2022Access Fund is now accepting applications for its new Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) Grant Program. This pilot grant program is designed to...
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