Disabled Access Team

  No One Gets Left Behind

There’s a veteran who hasn’t been able to hunt since he came home. Not because he lost the desire, but because nobody built him a way in.

That’s the problem the INWC Disabled Access Team was built to solve. And they’ve been solving it quietly, stubbornly, and without fanfare for years, cutting deals with private landowners, negotiating access through timber company lands, and showing up on weekends with tools in hand to build wheelchair platforms and ramps, deep in the places that matter.

Not conference rooms. Not grant applications. The actual woods.

Because of this team, hunters who were told — by circumstance, by injury, by the simple fact that nobody made room for them — that their days in the field were behind them, are back out there. At Aladdin Mountain. At Brewer Mountain. At Squirrel Meadows in the Colville National Forest. On Inland Empire Paper Company lands that wouldn’t have been open to them otherwise.

This isn’t charity. This is making sure that the people who love this land most don’t get left behind because of something that was never their fault.

If you have a disability and don’t know where to start, we’ll walk you through it. How to obtain disabled status through your medical provider or the VA. How to work with Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. What’s out there and how to get to it.

And if you want to be part of the team that makes all of this possible — we could sure use you.

2026 ADA Open House — April 18th, 9:30am–3:00pm | INWC Council Building

Committee Chair: Ronald ‘Z’ Zubrick — access@inwc.org

Committee Co-Chair: Cody Mace