Share your time, energy, and talents with Warner Parks. Abundant volunteer opportunities await a variety of abilities and interests:
- Nature Center Front Desk: 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.
- ….and so much more!
