Volunteer

Service Learning Projects

Volunteer Land Stewards

Employment

Internships

Volunteer!

Come and volunteer - there's room for everyone! Learn about nature, earn experience, build your resume. Come once a month or once a week, the sky's the limit.
Call (608) 221-0404 to receive a volunteer application form or click here: Volunteer Application Form

Publicity / Marketing Assistants

• Assist with media relations and press releases
• Help organize special events
• Create and distribute flyers and posters
• Work with school and community groups
• Organize grassroots support network
• Assist with fund-raising activities
• Conduct background research

Volunteer Coordinator

• Recruit and manage volunteers

Teaching Assistants

• Assist naturalists
  with tours and
  birthday parties
• Design and assist with public programs
• Make puppets
• Design and locate curriculum
• Create teaching
  visual aids

Office Helpers

• Run occasional errands and do odd jobs
• Organize shelves and teaching supplies
• Help keep the Nature Center clean
• Enter data on computer
• Help with mailings, faxing etc.

Wildlife Researchers

• Keep bird feeders full and monitor visitors
• Build and install bird houses and feeders
• Inventory species ( plants, animals, birds)
• Monitor bird boxes
• Design and monitor other research projects

Service Learning Projects

Would you like to include a conservation service project as part of your group's educational program? Students will learn the context of the larger environmental problem they are helping to solve through their conservation project at ALNC. We offer projects including trail building, trail maintenance, and invasive species eradication (pulling garlic mustard, cutting and hauling Black Locust, tug-a-suckle [honeysuckle removal], cutting seed heads of Reed Canary Grass, and more). contact the Nature Center Director to find out what service projects are available during your visit at 221-0495.

Land Stewards & Restorationists -- We need YOU!

STEWARD: The keeper of an estate.

Land Stewards are folks who want to make a positive difference in the environment.

No experience is necessary! Come dressed for the weather and we'll teach you to tell a weed from a wildflower!  Work gloves/garden gloves are always helpful.

Monona campus 
9-11:30 am
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Saturday, July 24, 2010
Interested in helping restore and maintain ALNC's prairie, marsh, and woodlands?  Join us to help control invasives, seed with native plants, get dirty, and have some fun!  Adults and youth welcome.

Black Earth campus
9am-12pm & 12-3pm - first Wednesday of the month & select Saturdays
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Saturday April 10, 2010
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Saturday, May 8, 2010
Volunteers are welcome to come for the morning, afternoon, or stay all day!  Activities will be seasonally based but will focus mainly on land management projects and invasive species removal.  Work days may be cancelled due to inclement weather or planned activities may be modified.  Please register for each date and time you plan to work.  Upon registering we will e-mail you directions to the Black Earth campus.

To register for a Land Steward Volunteer work day and time, call (608) 216-9372 or e-mail education@naturenet.com.

Dates are subject to change, so be sure to get on our mailing list if you are interested, or call the office and check before you come. 

Here are just a few Land Stewards projects:

• Cut honeysuckle and other unwanted brush
• Start seeds at home
• Pull garlic mustard and other "weeds"
• Transplant wildflowers
• Collect and label seeds
• Pick up trash

Employment

Current Needs:  

• None at the moment
  

Internships

The Nature Center offers many opportunities for meaningful internships for a semester, summer or longer timeframes. Public relations, marketing and fund-raising Internships, contact Kelley Van Egeren at (608) 221-3038.

Each semester ALNC seeks 1-2 Education Interns to work on a variety of special events, observe and eventually teach hands-on outdoor programs, and assist with program coordination duties.  We are currently accepting internship applications for winter/spring 2010.  Please submit application materials by January 8th, 2010.  

School year internships are unpaid but receive priority consideration for summer Naturalists positions (paid). Applications are accepted until the positions are filled. Click here for a position description and application procedures:

Summer Education Internships (word document)
School Year Education Internships (word document)