Outreach

• Post social media content to help spread our message.

• Help coordinate events, including lecture series, roving naturalist opportunities, and historical walking tours.

• Help us build partnerships with local groups and organizations.

• Generate interest in refuge volunteer tasks, such as Plover Wardens, invasive species control, and beach clean-ups.

• Assist with the recruitment of new members.

Fundraising

• Identify grant funding sources and write applications.

• Support the Hellcat Trail Boardwalk Plank Fundraiser by photographing planks and transporting them to and from the engraver.

• Create additional fundraising opportunities to support our mission.

Habitat Projects

• Remove invasive plant species that threaten the native plants of the refuge.

• Participate in beach clean-ups.

• Perform general landscape and infrastructure maintenance for trails and boardwalks.

Visitor Services

• Greet and orient visitors at the Parker River NWR Visitor Center.

• Lead guided tours via bike, kayak, or van.

• Help monitor and maintain boardwalks, trails, parking lots, and roadsides.

• Staff annual events like Let's Go Outside and the Eagle Festival.

• Assist refuge staff with existing environmental programs or help create new ones.

• Become a Plover Warden and help protect our threatened Piping Plovers.