America’s Natural and Cultural Resources Volunteer Portal
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SEARCH RESULTS 8 Opportunities Found
Opportunity Description: We are looking for people who are friendly,outgoing, and have strong people skills. This is a great job for anyone who enjoys talking to visitors and providing information on the cultural, historical, and natural points of interest in the area and throughout the memorial. Other duties include answering phones, directing calls, taking messages, operating a cash register, and sell bookstore items. A Volunteer uniform will be provided. 
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Opportunity Description: Greeting and orienting visitors to the Sachuest Point National Wildlife Refuge, part of the Rhode Island National Wildlife Refuge Complex. The Visitor Center receives a wide variety of guests from near and far. There are adjoining nature trails along a headland offering great views of the suurrounding waters. Future exhibits for the visitor center are planned. Volunteers attending the desk are also responsible to recieve sales in the small store useing a simple computer based register, answering and transferring phone calls, and some light cleaning and re-stocking at the visitor center.
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Opportunity Description: This is a caretaker position that offers housing at Trustom Pond National Wildlife Refuge in exchange for 20 hours per week. Duties would include trail monitoring, opening and closing overflow parking lot gate, minimal mowing, and taking visitation counts. Trustom Pond Refuge is a known birding destination and has the only undeveloped coastal pond in Rhode Island. It also includes barrier beach habitat, home to nesting piping plovers and great surf fishing in late summer, early fall. Housing Availability: Available • Housing Type: Trailer • Housing Description: This is a volunteer caretaker housing opportunity to live at Trustom Pond NWR in exchange for 20 hours per week.
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Opportunity Description: Greeting and orienting visitors to the Rhode Island National Wildlife Refuge Headquarters and Kettle Pond Visitor Center. The Visitor Center recieves a wide variety of guests from near and far. There are many interactive exhibits and frequently public programs for the visitors to enjoy. Volunteers attending the desk are also responsible to recieve sales in the small store useing a simple computer based register, answering and transferring phone calls, and some light cleaning and re-stocking at the visitor center.
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Opportunity Description: Contributing to the monitoring and protection of the Piping Plover, volunteers record plover activity within the breading sites. Educating the public, conducting predator patrols and setting and removing fence on the beach are other other opportunities available. Monitoring is done on sandy or pebble beaches on a regular basis from April to July. Assistance in the spring and fall is needed on a short term basis to prepare beaches for breading seasons.
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Opportunity Description: We need outgoing, friendly people to lead environmental programs for the public in the classroom or on the refuge. These may be scheduled or nonscheduled programs on any variety of topics relating to the mission of FWS.
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Opportunity Description: Exotic, invasive plant species threaten native habitat. Volunteers have helped the Rhode Island National Wildlife Refuges by working closely with the Refuge Biologist to control invasive species. The main duty of this opportunity is pulling invasive plants in work parties or on individual schedules. Occasionally work may be done off of the trails in moderate terrain potentially exposing the volunteer to poison ivy or ticks.
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Opportunity Description: As a trail monitor, you provide an important link between public users of the refuges and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. You can perform many functions that help make public visits to the refuge trails pleasant experiences. If you enjoy being on the trails and talking with people, you can combine those activities. Some trail monitors take ownership maintaining kiosk supplies, removing litter or trimming plants.
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