Volunteer

Share your time, energy, and talents with Warner Parks. Abundant volunteer opportunities await a variety of abilities and interests:

Nature Center Office: Assist staff naturalists with museum reception and provide office support as needed.
Environmental Education: Help with field trips, special events, public programs, and cart tours at the Nature Center.
Bird Education & Research: Includes all bird research like Project Feederwatch, hummingbird banding, bluebird box nest monitoring, etc.
Gardening & Landscape: Help maintain the teaching gardens (wildflower, herb, and vegetable), learn about organic growing, and maintain paths, the greenhouse and the Nature Center grounds.
Adopt a special area of the Parks: Maintain the area by keeping it free of trash and invasive plants.
Invasive Plant Removal: Join staff on organized removal and restoration days. Do your part to protect our native species.
Special Events: Join us as we put the fun in fundraising at Friends of Warner Parks’ Full Moon Pickin Parties and other donor events.
Trailwork: Lend a hand with stewardship of the trails. Volunteers are essential to the routine clearance of drainage features and help keep the trail clear of limbs and debris.
Volunteer Crew Leader: Do you love the Warner Parks, enjoy working outdoors and meeting new people who share these interests? If so, consider becoming a volunteer crew leader and help lead volunteer projects throughout the parks.
Parks Beautification: Includes maintenance of picnic areas, common grounds and historic sites, river and stream clean-up, litter pick-ups, tree planting and riparian restoration.
Warner Park Ambassadors: Share your passion for the Parks with other park users! Warner Park Ambassadors will offer assistance with directions, provide a friendly presence at the trailheads and along the trails, promote positive trail experiences, offer basic information about the Park’s resources, inform visitors about trail conditions or issues, educate visitors about park rules and regulations, and notify park staff about important safety-related incidents or concerns. See detailed information below.
SWEAT Volunteer: Work alongside participants in our summer work/learn/earn environmental education program. Trail maintenance, organic gardening, invasive plant removal and more! See detailed information below.
….and so much more!

Ambassador Program

What is a Warner Parks Ambassador?

Ambassadors are trained representatives that play a pivotal role in serving Warner Parks and its one million + visitors each year.

As an ambassador, you offer assistance with directions, provide a friendly presence at the trailheads and along the trails, promote positive trail experiences, offer basic information about the Park’s resources, inform visitors about trail conditions or issues, educate visitors about park rules and regulations, and notify park staff about important safety-related incidents or concerns.

Requirements:

Must be 18 years or older
Able to make a one-year commitment, averaging 4 hours per month
Complete the Warner Parks Ambassador application
Attend a Warner Parks Ambassador Orientation (details below)
Willing to attend additional meetings as requires

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Responsibilities:

Greeting and assisting visitors, informing them of parks rules and regulations, answering questions about the park and surrounding area, hand out park maps/brochures
Organize and schedule with Warner Parks one (or more) park beautification work day/event per year
Report unusual or suspicious activity taking place in the park immediately
Observe, record, and submit observations and interactions on a monthly basis

Adopt-a-park Program

Program Details

The Adopt-A-Park program allows individuals, groups, and other organizations to show pride in their community by assisting the Parks staff with routine maintenance, clean up, and beautification of parks, open spaces, and trails, creating a beautiful, clean environment for all to enjoy.

Warner Parks is very fortunate to have 3,200 acres of wooded hills, open meadows, streams, and 16.75 miles of hiking trails. Through the use of volunteers, designated areas will be spruced up by removing litter and debris, removing invasive plants, identifying hazards/repairs needed, reporting vandalism, and planting trees, along with other approved vegetation.

Requirements:

Complete the application
Each group must select a group leader who will also be responsible for communications with Parks staff and to assure that each participant complies with the Adopt-A-Park program requirements, safety procedures, and signs a liability release.
Once approved, you and/or your group will train with Park staff in the designated task and area.
We request a one-year commitment, with a minimum of four cleanups per year.
All volunteers under 18 must be accompanied by a supervising adult.

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Additional details:

All volunteer work must be completed during normal park hours, sunrise - 11 PM daily.
One day cleanups are also available, contact Volunteer Coordinator Elizabeth Griscom to schedule.

Guiding Tours A La Cart

Program Details

Warner Parks is accessible to all! We are looking for volunteers to help us guide/drive golf cart tours of the Allée for those with difficulty walking.
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Tours will begin at the Percy Warner Golf Course and encompass the 1.6 mile loop around the newly restored Allée Steps and Belle Meade Entrance to Percy Warner Park.

Tours will last approximately 30-45 minutes and are available Friday 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., and Sunday 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.

Requirements:

Drivers must be 18 years or older with a valid driver's license.
Sign up here to schedule a personal orientation
Tours are free but registration is required; you will only be asked to volunteer on days that tours have been pre-scheduled.

Volunteer Resources

We value each and every contribution to Friends of Warner Parks, and want to keep track of all volunteer service hours. You'll also find additional voluntee resources below!

Log Volunteer Service Hours Adopt-a-PArk Tool Reservation Form Adopt-A-PArk Reporting Form

Volunteer

Ambassador Program

What is a Warner Parks Ambassador?

Adopt-a-park Program

Program Details

Guiding Tours A La Cart

Program Details

Volunteer Resources

Volunteer NEWS

Citizen Science: Project FeederWatch

Seasonal Job Opportunity: Winter SWEAT Team

Heed the Call by Becca Stevens

UPCOMING Volunteer EVENTS

January Pullin' Party

January 30, 2021

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9 a.m. - 12 p.m.

Pullin' Party

February 6, 2021

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9 a.m. to 12 p.m.

Pullin' Party

February 20, 2021

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9 a.m. to 12 p.m.

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