Josh
Hicks

Josh joined The Wilderness Society in 2007. During this time, his work has focused primarily on securing federal policy and funding to help conserve our national forests. Josh manages multi-faceted campaigns involving policy, law, science, communications, politics, coalition building, and field organizing. His work has crossed presidential administrations and includes the promulgation and implementation of the Forest Service’s Travel Management Rule to help right-size the agency’s transportation system and the 2012 planning rule to center the conservation of wildlands, water, and wildlife in land management. He’s led The Wilderness Society’s efforts to defend the Forest Service’s roadless rule from being weakened and to secure national policy to conserve old-growth forests. His worked has involved efforts to help transition the Tongass National Forest away from old-growth logging to investing in regenerative economies and tribal co-stewardship. He’s helped successfully lobby for hundreds of millions of dollars for the Forest Service to help improve water quality and habitat being impaired by the agency’s road system.

Josh resides in the traditional and current homelands of the Ute, Cheyenne, and Arapaho Peoples. He’s based out of The Wilderness Society’s regional office in Denver. He has a Masters in Environmental Law from Vermont Law School.

Before joining The Wilderness Society, Josh worked at the American Water Works Association on securing our nation’s drinking water system from terrorist threats. Josh enjoys spending time with his wife and kids, being outdoors, and playing music.