People with diverse interests and personal abilities can greatly enhance the quality and quantity of what the Park District is unable to do alone. Volunteers can be a single individual doing a specific task or community groups wishing to embark on a larger park facility project. We have been honored to have scouts, service organizations, school children and corporations contribute both time and money to the parks. Trails have been upgraded, litter removed, fences mended, facilities built, benches donated, grass mowed, and invasive plants controlled by dedicated volunteers. Your sweat and brain equity is needed, please contact the district to learn about volunteer opportunities and specifically how your talents can be utilized!
Opportunities exist in the following categories:
Artists, Interpreters, Writers, Photographers
Design and develop brochures, bulletin board
interpretive materials, trail interpretive signs, write
newsletters and media releases, research and present
nature interpretative programs, photograph all aspects
of the natural history
Secretarial, Bookkeeping
Keep records and meeting minutes, provide secretarial
assistance and budgeting skills
Research
Perform animal and plant surveys, breeding bird census,
geological mapping, water quality, drainage and
pollution monitoring, historical land use and ownership
collection
Friends of the Parks Organization
Provides expert references and perspectives, advise Park
District on park operations and policy, long range
funding sources, public relations, identify potential
expansion of land acquisitions
General Maintenance
Trail maintenance, cutting trails, litter pickup, small
construction projects, boundary posting, lawn mowing,
invasive plant removal and control, stream bank
stabilization