Volunteer
Volunteers are crucial to the Wilderness Trust’s land protection efforts. Current volunteer opportunities are listed below. To learn more about any of these activities, or to volunteer, please call or email us: (802) 453-7880 or
Easement and Wildland Monitoring: Monitors serve as on-the-ground field assistants, observing the condition of properties and reporting conditions back to the staff, conveying appreciation for the land, responding to questions about the stewardship program, and serving as a liaison between landowners and the Northeast Wilderness Trust. Experience in monitoring is not necessary, but a background in hiking, guiding, or outdoor work is helpful. Must be available at least one day a year and comfortable hiking in remote areas.
Leading Outdoor Programs: Do you enjoy sharing your knowledge and love of the natural world with others? Lead a field trip for kids or adults to one of the Trust’s conserved properties to look at birds, wildflowers, wildlife signs, or some other aspect of a site’s ecology and explore its land use history. We can provide logistical support, event promotion, and registration.
Town Land Records Research: One way to help stitch together wildlife corridors as well as build the Trust’s membership – is to notify neighbors when we conserve an adjacent property. Volunteers can help us identify these abutting landowners by collecting information from town tax maps and public lists, records, and deeds.
Photographing Conserved Lands: If you have a camera and an eye for composition, you can help us by visiting recently conserved properties and taking photos for use in our mailings, publications, slides shows, and website.
Information Table: Help us spread the word! Travel to fairs, farmers’ markets, and other special events throughout the Northeast to help us manage literature tables and do community outreach. Those who are willing to volunteer their time in support of the Northeast Wilderness Trust can make excellent spokespersons.
Friendraising Events: Do you like to throw a party? Among the Trust’s most effective membership building tools are the gatherings hosted by our supporters in their homes to introduce us to friends and neighbors. You provide the food and drink; we do the talking. This is one of the best ways you can help build understanding and support for land conservation in your community!
Community Membership Liaison: Help the Northeast Wilderness Trust build its membership base in your community. Once a year, we’ll ask you to send us ten names and addresses of people in your community who you think would be likely supporters of the Trust’s work.
