Join us at Warburton Trail Festival for the launch of TRACTION: Trail Action!⁠ ⁠ Liz & Hilary will be hosting the seminar on Sunday afternoon, talking about the purpose and goals of this new initative, and how you can get involved. After all, the purpose of TRACTION is to get runners to take action and help protect and conserve the trails we love 💚⁠ ⁠ We would love for YOU to come with ideas for how you and your running community would like to get more involved in caring for trails, so we can build this movement and empower everyone to be active custodians of our amazing trail network.⁠ ⁠ As @tourdetrails says, be good humans! 🙂🙌🏽⁠ ⁠ See you at 2.30pm on Sunday 13th March at Warby Bowls Club (opposite the finish line)⁠ ⁠ #warbytrailfest #ForWildPlaces #TrailAction #TRACTION

Tomorrow is Trail Chat #10 with @majellb⁠ ⁠ Join us at 12 pm AEST as we chat with Majell about his recent traverse across the proposed Great Forest National Park in Victoria’s Central Highlands.⁠ ⁠ Renowned for its towering Mountain Ash forests, this ecologically significant landscape is under threat from native forest logging, further endangering the lives of vulnerable species such as the Great Glider.⁠ ⁠ To further protect this precious forest, @majellb is bringing @footprintsrunning Camp to Australia in April, alongside @wild.allies and @patagoniaaus, to provide environmentally conscious outdoors people the opportunity to be active in advocating for this proposed National Park. Not only did @beauisms join Majell for part of the traverse, but he’ll also be one of the mentors at the camp 🏕️⁠ ⁠ Head to the 🔗 in bio to RSVP, and come along and hear more about Majell’s GFNP expedition and the upcoming camp 🌳🙌🏽⁠ ⁠ Photo: Cam Suttie, courtesy of Patagonia

TRACTION: Yarra Bend⁠ ⁠ 2 hours and 25kg of rubbish later… thank you to all who came along to our first TRACTION: Trail Action event on Saturday! 🙌🏽⁠ ⁠ In the aftermath of the recent floods in Melbourne, the banks of the Yarra/Birrarung River are littered with rubbish caught in the bushes and trees. The amount of soft plastics we encountered was staggering - they have slowly detonated in the summer sun, breaking down into brittle microplastics that will eventually make their way into the ocean 🌊 🐟⁠ ⁠ Join us at a future TRACTION event in the You Yangs, Otway NP or Gariwerd by RSVPing via 🔗in bio 👏🏼🙂⁠ ⁠ Image: @jtfilmandphoto

We're proud to have @paddy_pallin, Australia's oldest family-owned outdoor adventure store, as a supporter of For Wild Places! 🙏🏽🙂⁠ ⁠ With a proud history of 90 years, they believe 'Experience is Everything' and are committed to seeing our wild places thrive for generations to come. Paddy Pallin has already shown their support by backing the inaugural Pilliga Ultra and we are excited to continue this partnership into 2023.⁠ ⁠ Whether you're an experienced adventurer or just starting out, Paddy Pallin has everything you need to make the most of your time in the great outdoors 🎒⛺️⁠ ⁠ #ForWildPlaces #PaddyPallin #ExperienceIsEverything⁠ ⁠ 📷 @hilarymcallister_, Gadubanud Country

IWD 2023 + events galore 🥳 In this week’s newsletter, we are going hard on upcoming events, including TRACTION tomorrow (see you there!), International Women’s Day group runs in Melbourne & Sydney and upcoming trail chats with @majellb and @lucy_bartholomew Swipe ➡️ to see more details on our group runs for IWD.  Check out the 🔗 in stories to RVSP! Enjoy the final weekend of summer, folks, and all the best to those traversing the tall forests of Takayna this weekend! 🌳🏃‍♀️ If you’d like to get our weekly update directly into your in box every Friday, subscribe via link in bio ✌🏽 Image: @urchin_janjuc

TRACTION: Yarra Bend Join us this Saturday at Studley Park Picnic Area to give back to the trails and come together with the trail-loving community.  At this event, our trail action will be picking up rubbish, which is sadly abundant in this popular inner-city green space. At this free event, you’ll hear from local environmental groups about the health of the Park, and some of the special critters that call it home.  Over three hours, we’ll pick up rubbish along busy walking trails, learn more about the park and meet new members of the FWP community. RSVP via the Facebook event, where you’ll also find the 🔗 to register via @parksvic It’s going to be bat-tacstic! 🦇🙌🏽 #forwildplaces #trailaction #YarraBend #UrbanParks @take3forthe sea #Take3fortheTrail

We're so excited to have @fractelrunning, a Sunshine Coast-based business, as a supporter of For Wild Places! ⁠ ☀️🧢⁠ ⁠ Fractel's mission is to create sustainable headwear for the outdoor community, and they're doing it in style. They understand the importance of enjoying nature without causing harm to the environment, and that's why they've joined 1% for the Planet, giving back 1% of all their sales to organizations that protect the planet, which includes For Wild Places 🙏🏽💙⁠ ⁠ By supporting Fractel, you're supporting a business that is aligned with our mission to make trail running a meaningful expression of environmental activism. Let's work together to help our wild places survive and thrive! ⁠ ⁠ #ForWildPlaces #Fractel #SustainableHeadwear⁠ ⁠ 📷 @calumnhockey, Bidawal Country

Why TRACTION?⁠ ⁠ Here at For Wild Places, we want to connect the trail-running community with tangible ways we can help nature thrive. And as trail users, we want to see our trails well maintained, so the critters, plants and ecosystems that surround them are protected and healthy - like these guys 🦘🤎⁠ ⁠ #TRACTION #TrailAction #ForWildPlaces⁠ ⁠ Photo: @hilarymcallister_, Gadubanud Country

INTRODUCING: TRACTION⁠ ⁠ In today’s newsletter, we launched our latest initiative, TRACTION: Trail Action ⁠ ⁠ This series of events invites you, trail users, to join us in taking action to keep our trails clean, tidy, marked and maintained so we can continue to explore wild places, whilst limiting our negative impact on the environment. ⁠ ⁠ The first event kicks off next weekend at Yarra Bend in Melbourne/Naarm, with events in the You Yangs, Otway’s and Grampians to follow 🌳🏃‍♀️⁠ ⁠ To learn more, refresh that inbox 📬 or if you’re not subscribed, check out the newsletter archive via link in bio. Head to our Facebook page to RSVP and stay up to date with future events! 🙌🏽⁠ ⁠ Together, let's take action for our trails! 🏃‍♀️✊🏽🥳⁠ ⁠ #forwildplaces #TRACTION #trailaction #ParksVic⁠

Trail Chat #10 with Majell Backhausen⁠ ⁠ @majellb recently ran 273 km across the proposed Great Forest National Park to learn more about this special place, and why it should be protected as a National Park. You can now check out Part 1 of 'End to an End', a short film that follows Majell's traverse via @patagoniaaus 🎥🏃🏻‍♂️⁠ ⁠ Majell has since joined the team at @wild.allies to bring @footprintsrunning Camp to Australia, which aims to create the next generation of sport climate leaders 🙌🏽⁠ ⁠ Join us on Thursday 2nd March at 12 pm to hear more about the campaign to create the Great Forest National Park, and how you can be a part of it. RSVP here via link in bio 🔗👆🏼⁠ ⁠ Image: @jarrahlych for @patagoniaaus