The National Park Service (NPS) recently bestowed honors on Saguaro National Park and its philanthropic partner organization, Friends of Saguaro National Park, bestowing the organizations with 2025 Excellence in Wilderness Stewardship Awards. The awards recognize both teams’ efforts in supporting critical work in the Arizona park over the past year.
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“The Excellence in Wilderness Stewardship Awards are the agency’s annual recognition of outstanding contributions to wilderness stewardship by an individual, team, and external partner,” NPS says in its press release. “This year’s national Team Award was given to the Saguaro National Park Trails Program for their work in maintaining and improving trails in the park’s high elevation wilderness.”
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Friends of Saguaro National Park also received the national External Partner Award for 2025. NPS says the award went to this organization because of their “support in funding projects such as wildlife and plant surveys, trail work, education and outreach, and youth internship programs.”
See the social-media post from Saguaro National Park post about the awards here:
Header stock image of Saguaro National park by Faraj Hamdan / 500px/Getty Images
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