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Volunteer Opportunities

The Nature Center provides many different outdoor opportunities to suit your volunteer interests or needs. 

Guiding elementary school field trips, sharing your love of gardening with students, adopting a trail with your family, and land stewardship tasks are just a few of the opportunities we have to choose from. We do our best to provide service activities that are meaningful and interesting to the volunteer.

Fill out the Volunteer Application now! 

Volunteer Opportunities

  1. Conservation Stewardship

    Improve the quality of habitats at the Nature Center. May be physically demanding and include work off trail. Examples include invasive species removal, native seed collection, planting trees & shrubs, etc.

  2. Maintenance

    Improve the appearance and accessibility of the Nature Center. May be physically demanding. Examples include clearing trails of debris, picking up litter, trimming vegetation with hand tools, assisting staff with large projects, etc.

  3. Gardening and Horticulture

    Assist with the maintenance of flower beds, display gardens, and nursery stock. Examples include weeding, watering, transplanting, planting, and sowing seeds.

  4. Marketing and Community Outreach

    Provide photography and/or videography of Nature Center events and natural resources to be used for promoting the Nature Center. May use personal equipment or the Nature Center’s camera.

  5. Special Events

    Assist with set up, clean up, and/or facilitate activities during a community-based event at the Nature Center.

  6. Community Science

    Participate in community science efforts such as iNaturalist, eBird, Project FeederWatch, Project NestWatch, etc. Can be completed on your own schedule.