Volunteer
Opportunities
Volunteering has so much going for it. You
get to give your time to organizations that are usually under-funded, under-staffed
and over-worked, and you get to spend time outdoors learning cool stuff with neat
people. To boot, you will probably sleep like a rock the night after your
volunteer effort (I'm down for the count at 9:30 pm).
Check out these links to organizations
with frequent volunteer days.
Links:
• Midpeninsula Regional
Open Space District http://www.openspace.org/volunteer/
• Point
Reyes National Seashore Volunteers in Parks http://www.nps.gov/pore/home_volunteer.htm
• Marin
County Open Space District http://www.ca.marin.ca.us/depts/PK/Main/mcosd/os_volunteer.asp
• Santa Cruz Mountains
Trail Association http://www.scmta-trails.org
• GGNRA
http://www.nps.gov/goga/supportyourpark/volunteer.htm
• San Bruno Mountain
Watch www.mountainwatch.org
• State
Parks http://www.parks.ca.gov/default.asp?page_id=886
• East
Bay Regional Parks http://www.ebparks.org/getinvolved/volunteer
• Santa
Clara County Parks http://www.sccgov.org/portal/site/parks/ (click on volunteer
opportunities)
• Trail
Center http://www.trailcenter.org/volunteer.htm
• Community
Impact http://www.communityimpact.org/
• Volunteering
at Henry W. Coe State Park http://www.coepark.org/volprogram.html
• Henry W. Coe Springs
Maintenance Committee http://www.wlevey.com/coepark/
• Greenbelt
Alliance http://www.greenbelt.org/getinvolved/volunteer.html
• Trailworkers
(Santa Cruz County) http://www.trailworkers.com
• Heart of
the Mountain (San Bruno Mountain Volunteers) http://www.heartofthemountain.com
• Restoration
and Ecosystem Management Crew http://geocities.com/restorationvolunteers/
• Mount
Tamalpais Interpretive Association http://www.mttam.net/Default.aspx?tabid=854
• Yggdrasil Urban
Wildlife Rescue (YUWR) Shelter http://www.yuwr.org/index.html
• Volunteers for Outdoor California
http://v-o-cal.org/
• Friends
of Edgewood http://www.friendsofedgewood.org/get-involved
• San
Mateo County Parks http://www.co.sanmateo.ca.us/portal/site/parks (click volunteers)
• Bay Area Mountain Rescue
Unit http://www.bamru.org/
• Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society http://www.scvas.org/index.php?page=text&id=getinvolved
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