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Volunteer Opportunities

The following volunteer opportunities provide chances to help with important plant surveys, seed collecting, and contribute to the restoration of degraded habitat. These opportunities help link AZNPS members with land managers and allied conservation organizations.

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES IN THE NORTHERN REGION

Grand Canyon Trust Volunteers

Volunteers are absolutely essential to Park managers’ efforts to preserve and protect the natural resources and beauty of Grand Canyon National Park. The Grand Canyon Trust Volunteer Program gives volunteers the opportunity to become stewards of one of the world’s natural wonders and a World Heritage Site. If interested, please look for upcoming projects here.

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES IN THE CENTRAL REGION (PHOENIX AREA)

Phoenix Weedwackers

Our group meets on the second Saturday of every month at various locations within the Phoenix Mountain Preserves. Locations include Piestewa Peak and Shaw Butte, two areas hit particularly hard by the buffelgrass invasion. The park supplies everything but the labor, so volunteers just need to bring a willingness to work for a few hours. Parking is available nearby. To see our first meeting and what we do visit our website .

For more information, contact Claudia Bloom

Volunteers for Outdoor Arizona

Volunteers for Outdoor Arizona (VOA or VOAz) is a program created within the Dorothy Garske Center of Phoenix, Arizona. VOA organizes outdoor volunteer work projects in cooperation with public and private agencies to preserve, protect, and maintain our state's valuable natural resources. Most events are one or two days on weekends. VOA events are carefully planned to provide fun, safe, and productive opportunities to participate in trail work and habitat protection and improvement projects.

The mission of the Volunteers for Outdoor Arizona (VOA) project of Dorothy Garske Center is to promote stewardship of Arizona's outdoor places through volunteerism. The combination of population growth in, poor land stewardship in the past, and reductions in the budgets of land management agencies threatens our ability to accommodate the growing interest in outdoor recreation, while preserving natural and historic places.

Volunteers for Outdoor Arizona
2140 East 5th Street, Suite 8
Tempe, AZ 85281
480.966.2689

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES IN THE SOUTHERN REGION (TUCSON AREA)

Sonoran Desert Weedwackers

The Sonoran Desert Weedwackers have been removing invasive grasses from Tucson Mountain Park since 2000. For more information, contact Marilyn Hanson.

Saguaro National Park Weedwackers meet every second Saturday, removing invasive grasses from SNP-East. They meet at the Visitor Center of the Rincon Mountain District. The Park provides all the necessary tools, including gloves for those who do not have them.

For more information contact: Bethany Hontz, Biological Science Technician, Saguaro National Park, (520)733-5187

Education: The Tucson Chapter gets occasional requests to help local schools by giving presentations on native plants and with planting native gardens. If you are interested in helping out, contact Nancy Zierenberg at (520)882-7663.