I volunteer in my Town in Massachusetts - as a Land Steward (serving to advise our Conservation Commission at least theoretically!), and doing a pilot study keeping an area unmowed to observe native plants and pollinators comparing to the rest of the lovely meadow which is treated like a golf course! I also spend hours observing species within my town, run 9 projects in iNaturalist hoping to inspire folks to get excited visiting our conservation areas and what they might find there. I am committed to finding unusual and/or rare species in my town and documenting them on iNaturalist. I also volunteer with our town Natural History Program that is seeking to pull together all biota data for our town - including data downloaded from iNat, ebird, other sources, paper notes tucked under beds, etc. Things that can be lost when older folks die. Lastly - I am focused on trying to get Dark Sky information and even maybe a bylaw so that we have less light pollution in my town, and work with Town āGovernmentā to focus on health and proper management of the conservation lands with the aim to protect the habitat and species as compared to just make it available for human-centric recreation and farming.
Wonderful to read about all the volunteer activities! I have a chronic ill-health condition that limits my ability to go out to do volunteer work, so my volunteering is taking photos in our mountain forest yard when I have the energy and putting them on iNaturalist (also when I have the energy). Iām very grateful to iNat for giving me this opportunity.
3 hours of volunteer work at the Western Australian Herbarium each week and soon to be starting at a black cockatoo rehabilitation center nursery.
Yes, I think a lifeguard anywhere would aways give you a trash bag if you explain that you want to pick trash off the beach.That is to say, any lifeguard who works from an actual lifeguard station, as opposed to just a lifeguard chair.
My biggest activity right now is leading our local Audubon chapter, but as part of that I plan bird counts, litter pickups, etc. We are restoring habitat at a preserve we own - working with NRCS. Weāve installed native plant gardens on the property of our state governorās mansion.
I teach an introduction to dragonflies occasionally for master naturalists or at a local state park.
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