Opportunity Details

This uncommon woodland community encompasses wet savanna, marsh, and mature floodplain woods, and is dominated by swamp white oaks. Join an inspiring movement of volunteers gathering to restore this special site along the Chicago River. Learn how to restore diverse wildlife, trees, wildflowers, and health to our forest preserves and river system. Our goal is to grow a community who will become caretakers through on-going education and training.

For more information, please contact Radhika Miraglia at radhika@fotfp.org.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
General	no limit	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

This uncommon woodland community encompasses wet savanna, marsh, and mature floodplain woods, and is dominated by swamp white oaks. Join an inspiring movement of volunteers gathering to restore this special site along the Chicago River. Learn how to restore diverse wildlife, trees, wildflowers, and health to our forest preserves and river system. Our goal is to grow a community who will become caretakers through on-going education and training.

For more information, please contact Radhika Miraglia at radhika@fotfp.org.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
General	no limit	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

This uncommon woodland community encompasses wet savanna, marsh, and mature floodplain woods, and is dominated by swamp white oaks. Join an inspiring movement of volunteers gathering to restore this special site along the Chicago River. Learn how to restore diverse wildlife, trees, wildflowers, and health to our forest preserves and river system. Our goal is to grow a community who will become caretakers through on-going education and training.

For more information, please contact Radhika Miraglia at radhika@fotfp.org.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
General	no limit	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

This event is a collaborated effort with C.A.T. We meet at the end of Granada Ave. and the bike path in Long Beach.
For more information, please contact treasurer@longbeach.surfrider.org

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
General	no limit	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

This event is a collaborated effort with C.A.T. We meet at the end of Granada Ave. and the bike path in Long Beach.
For more information, please contact treasurer@longbeach.surfrider.org

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
General	no limit	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

Whistler Woods contains oaks up to 300 years old, but invasive brush prevents their acorns from sprouting. Come join a volunteer crew that will cut back the invasives and improve the habitat at this preserve. Learn what it takes to restore diverse wildlife, trees, wildflowers, and health in our forest preserves and our river system. Our goal is to grow a community of people who will become caretakers through on-going education and training.

For more information, please contact Ron Rodriguez at rodriguezron@comcast.net.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
General	no limit	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

Whistler Woods contains oaks up to 300 years old, but invasive brush prevents their acorns from sprouting. Come join a volunteer crew that will cut back the invasives and improve the habitat at this preserve. Learn what it takes to restore diverse wildlife, trees, wildflowers, and health in our forest preserves and our river system. Our goal is to grow a community of people who will become caretakers through on-going education and training.

For more information, please contact Ron Rodriguez at rodriguezron@comcast.net.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
General	no limit	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

You can help the Friends of Hocking Hills State Park with education, outreach, event planning, and fundraising, as well as providing volunteers for needed Park projects and special events. Volunteers are a crucial part of our organization, and your time is just as valuable as any monetary contribution! Everyone is welcome, and we can match you with a project or activity that suits your interests and meets the needs of the Park.

Listed below are some of the many volunteer opportunities for those who want to support the Hocking Hills State Park. You may also think of ways that you can support the Friends and the Park that we haven't even thought of yet!

Trail Trolls
We are looking for a few hard working-trail loving recruits to help maintain and develop our world class trail system here in Hocking Hills State Park. Join with the naturalist as we meet one day a month to tackle a new project along our 27 miles of trail in the park. If you enjoy a little hard work outdoors, learning something new, protecting our parks and making new friends then this outfit is definitely for you!

To find out more about Trail Trolls, please feel free to visit their website, www.friendsofhockinghills.org. Or you may contact the park naturalist Pat Quackenbush at (740) 385-8003 ext. 213 or pat.quackenbush@dnr.state.oh.us.

Butterfly Garden
Help maintain the butterfly habitat at the monthly butterfly garden party. Volunteers meet once a month April - October to pull weeds, fill the hummingbird feeders and prune plants.

Hocking Hills Poker Run
The Hocking Hills Poker Run is held Spring and Fall with a 100 mile ride through five State Parks and Wayne National Forest. Beforehand, we need help in soliciting sponsors, and in event planning and advertising. The day of the event, we need help with registration, manning stops along the route, selling merchandise, and cleaning up.

Shoot the Hills
Our nature photography contest is one of the largest in the region, and includes a 24-hour contest throughout four counties, as well as free programming open to the public all weekend. We need help in soliciting for vendors and sponsorships, advertising the event, and processing registrations before the event. At the event, we need help setting up, selling merchandise, manning vendor booths, helping with on-site registration, auditing, and cleaning up.

VIP Program
Thousands of Ohioans have volunteered at Ohio State Parks and have enjoyed their experience while at the same time providing an invaluable service to the park system. Why not join them in the VIP Program (Volunteers in the Park) and find out what a great sense of satisfaction you can earn while make a valuable contribution to your favorite state park - Hocking Hills!.

Each fall, a campout is held to thank all the volunteers for their service during that year. This year's volunteer campout was held at Hocking Hills State Park. Check out the photos from the weekend.

There are three categories of volunteers:

Individual Volunteers sign up to do a variety of duties, such as helping park staff with programs, special events, trail maintenance, litter control, and monitoring blue bird boxes, to name a few. Youngsters aged 5 to 12 years can sign up as Junior Volunteers to work alongside their parents or guardians, while young people aged 13 to 17 can sign up as Green Teens.
Campground Host volunteers work in state park campgrounds doing a variety of duties, such as greeting campers, helping them set up their site, assisting with special events, picking up litter to name a few. In exchange for 20 hours of work per week, the Camground Host is provided with a complimentary camp site.
Group Volunteers include school, civic and scout groups that sign-up for such duties as trail maintenance, beach clean-ups, etc.
A wide variety of duties can be assigned to meet an individual's skills; parks will work with the volunteer on a flexible schedule.

To find out more, please feel free to visit their website, www.friendsofhockinghills.org.
Or you may contact Julieann Burroughs at president@friendsofhockinghills.org.
Thank you for your interest in supporting a great organization!

Opportunity Details

FLMSP has no paid staff-we are all volunteers, and we hope you will join us. Everyone is welcome; every effort helps. Work on your own or with a group. We’ll provide the tools, supplies and training. The amount of time you devote is always your decision, and your work will always be sincerely appreciated.

Adopt-a-Trail

Join a group that helps maintain a section of trail near you. Work with the team or on your own to clear debris from the trail and berm, pick up litter, trim vegetation, or work a chainsaw. We provide tools and training. Our teams work to improve safety on the trail while enhancing its beauty and contributing to everyone’s enjoyment of the trail.

Special Ops

Volunteer for one of our 5 teams dedicated to specific work all along our trail. Help repair fences, pull our blower behind your vehicle to clear leaves and debris from the trail, maintain drainage ditches and culverts to direct water from the trail, paint mile marks and stop signs on the trail surface, or help repair cracks and bumps in the asphalt.

Group opportunities

We offer flexible community service opportunities for students, businesses, churches and civic organizations. Choose the time and place best for you, and we’ll match you up with one of our experienced volunteers to plan and direct your efforts. You’ll have fun with your group while contributing to your community.

Off the trail

If physical labor isn’t for you, you can be a Friend in many other ways! We need volunteers to coordinate and answer our Trail Hotline, manage our tool inventory, write informational and publicity articles, and manage our social networking-and that’s just a sample. Let us know of your special skill or interest, and we’ll put you to work!

To find out more, please feel free to visit their website, www.flmsp.org.
Or you may contact FLMSP at membership@flmsp.org.
Thank you for your interest in supporting a great organization!

Opportunity Details

The "Stream Team" is a dedicated group of volunteers that gather water quality data throughout the Lower Muskingum River Watershed. Stream Team members are trained by FLMR staff to collect habitat, biological and chemical data. The data collected by these amazing volunteers helps protect the streams in our communities so we may continue to enjoy using our local streams and rivers safely.

Through this invaluable data collection effort FLMR is able to:

Establish baseline conditions for waters that would otherwise go unmonitored
Track water quality trends over time
Screen water for potential problems, for further study or for restoration efforts
Help direct pollution control efforts to where they are most needed
Evaluate the success of best management practices (BMPs) designed to mitigate problems

Volunteer water monitors build community awareness of pollution problems, help identify and restore problem sites, become advocates for their watersheds and increase the amount of needed water quality information available on our local bodies of water.

To find out more, please feel free to visit their website, www.muskingumriver.org.
Or you may contact FLMR at 740-374-4170 or flmr@muskingumriver.org.
Thank you for your interest in supporting a great organization!