Opportunities From: Volunteer Wisconsin

With only one part time staff member at our parks, we rely on volunteers to help us with our environmental education programs. If you love kids, this opportunity is right for you. Duties for this include:

-Assist during field trips. This may mean that you are leading an activity

-Assist during preschool classes

-Assist with prep work

-Assist during our school age classes

-Help at a weekend program

Interested in working outdoors to improve local parks. We have a great Tuesday morning work crew AKA the Buckthorn Brigade or Litter Picker Uppers. This group meets regularly on Tuesday mornings at 8:45 AM till usually 11AM. Emails are communicated with those who are interested to let them know what the task will be for that week. Come for one Tuesday or come for them all. Come for the whole time or for a little bit of the time. This group is critical in helping the park.

Duties may include:

-Removing buckthorn via pesticide, cutting, chipping, or chainsawing

-Picking up litter

-Attaching signs to the park

-Clearing Trails

 

Projects this group has worked on

-Painting of buildings

-Natural Playground building

-Buckthorn removal

-Litter clean-up

-Graffiti removal

-Attaching signs to picnic tables

Looking for a great opportunity to help park visitors? Nature Center hosts help staff the nature center completing the following duties:

1) Greet visitors

2) Answer visitor questions to the best of their knowledge regarding the park

3) Make gift shop sales

4) May do general cleaning tasks like vacuuming

5) Maybe perform opening and closing procedures (turning on lights, locking doors)

 

You may sign up to cover part of a shift or a whole shift. Our nature center is only open when we are not doing programming and when we have volunteers to staff it. We try and have the center open at least from noon-4pm daily.