VOLUNTEERS

Vermont Fish and Wildlife’s annual spiny softshell turtle beach cleanup day is Saturday, October 18, and the department is looking for volunteers to help.

Honor the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. by volunteering at an Indiana Department of Natural Resources (DNR) property on Jan. 20, Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

The Iowa DNR is seeking campground hosts for the 2025 camping season. If you enjoy camping and meeting new people, this may be the perfect volunteer opportunity for you.

Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks is seeking volunteers for a volunteer work project on the Wild Horse Island Unit of Flathead Lake State Park.

Join a habitat stewardship day at Gourdneck State Game Area in Portage. These areas are important refuges for wildlife, and you can play an active role in conserving them for future generations.

The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department is asking for volunteers to help in rounding up and placing identification bands on the legs of Canada geese at its Dead Creek Wildlife Management Area off Route 17 in Addison, starting at 8:00 a.m. on Wednesday, July 3.

The NWTF Southern Maine Strutters, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service staff, and volunteers from all corners of New England celebrated the NWTF’s 2023 Conservation Week and National Public Lands Day by rolling up their sleeves at the Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge.

Volunteers are needed to help clean, repair, and cut brush to camouflage hunting blinds in Monroe Lake’s Stillwater-Northfork Wildlife Area in preparation for the upcoming waterfowl hunting season during a workday on Saturday, Oct. 7 at 9 a.m.

Doug Hastings, of Bath, is the Michigan Department of Natural Resources 2022 Hunter Education Instructor of the Year, an honor bestowed at the July meeting of the Michigan Natural Resources Commission in Lansing.

The DNR needs volunteers to help at the Kids Fishin’ Pond at the Indiana State Fair, which runs July 28 to Aug. 20 in Indianapolis.

The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department is looking for volunteers to join them for fun-filled weekends to get the camps ready for the 2023 season. This year, the GMCC Kehoe ‘workcation’ weekend will be May 6-7 and the GMCC Buck Lake workcation weekend will be May 20-22.

Volunteers are needed in Cheboygan County now through early June to stand guard as mature lake sturgeon head upstream to their spawning sites along the Black River.

A volunteer-driven sandhill crane survey to locate breeding birds in Ohio is seeking observers to help with the count on Saturday April 15.

Dan Barriball of Chesterton, who has volunteered more than 1,200 hours for Indiana Dunes State Park during the past five years, received a national award as the 2022 Outstanding Interpretive Volunteer of the Year at the recent National Association for Interpretation (NAI) conference.

Honor the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. by volunteering at a DNR property on Jan. 16, Martin Luther King Day.

Volunteers from communities in Tennessee, New York and Wisconsin pulled just under 18,200 pounds of trash from the ramps and shores of Chickamauga Lake, Pickwick Lake, Oneida Lake and the Mississippi River as part of the 2022 Bassmaster Lake Clean-Up Challenges sponsored by AFTCO and Yamaha RightwatersTM.

Help introduce youth who attend the Indiana State Fair to the joy of fishing by volunteering at the Indiana DNR’s Fishin’ Pond, which is located beside the Natural Resources Building on the fairgrounds in Indianapolis.

Mentors are needed to help staff the DNR’s Pocket Park during the Aug. 15-21 Upper Peninsula State Fair, where volunteers will assist with include helping kids catch and release bluegills in the U.P.-shaped pond, shoot pellet guns or bow and arrow, staffing the fire tower or greeting visitors.

Volunteers are needed to help clean up the Mainstee River as part of On the Ground, Michigan United Conservation Clubs’ volunteer wildlife habitat improvement program in partnership with the DNR.

Several state parks in southern Michigan will host volunteer stewardship workdays in July. Volunteers are needed to help with removing invasive plants that threaten high-quality ecosystems.