Our deadline for the Waterman Fund Essay contest is coming up: March 15th! For the 2023 contest, we are looking for pieces on climate change: - Are we planning trips to mountain and wilderness areas in consideration of the climate changes we experience now? - How about our relation to flora and fauna? How are climate changes affecting our expectations of what we'll see and hear when we get out there? - The warming trend can: melt glaciers and loosen rocks, thereby increasing rockfalls; cause avalanches the consistency of mush; lead to heavy rains making river crossings more dangerous; worsen hot spells, increasing heat exhaustion, dehydration, and death. - How have these tangible results of climate change affected the way we move through the wilderness and the human need for wildness? Will fewer or more people find their way out there? And what would that mean for both us and wildness? We welcome personal, scientific, adventure, or memoir essays; fiction, poetry, or songs are not eligible for this contest. (fb)

We are extending our deadline for the Waterman Fund Essay contest to March 15th! We have no specific prompt for the 2022 essay contest. Submissions should be 2,000-3,000 words. We welcome personal, scientific, adventure, or memoir essays. Send submissions/inquiries to essays@watermanfund.org (fb)