CoNPS Volunteer Opportunities

• Adopt a Rare Plant
• Adopt a Trail – Do you have a favorite hiking trail near your home? Do you enjoy identifying all of the plants along the trail? Do you want to help conserve the native plants of Colorado? Pick any trail in Colorado, develop a list of the plants you find (or update an existing list), and share the information with us.
• Conservation - Opportunities for CoNPS Members to become involved in local conservation issues
  • Conservation Links for Colorado
  • Upcoming Workshop: Native Plants on Federal Lands - How to Use Federal Documents to Conserve Plants

Volunteer Opportunities with Partner Agencies

Volunteers needed to conduct Rare Plant Surveys with the City of Fort Collins Natural Areas 

Stewardship Program with CNAP

Rare Plant Monitoring Steward
- Get Some Dirt on Your Shirt—Become a Habitat Steward

The Colorado Native Plant Society is partnering with the National Wildlife Federation, the Butterfly Pavilion and many others to improve wildlife habitat and restore native ecosystems while encouraging people to get outside and in volved with their communities. Volunteers can choose to learn about native, fire-resistant plants and to share this knowledge with the community.  Contact Julie Gustafson (303-441-5152 or Megan Bowes (303-561-4883) to sign up and become an active member in your wild community. 

Plant Photos Needed by the Colorado Natural Heritage Program

As part of a broader project to update the on-line Colorado Rare Plant Field Guide, the Colorado Natural Heritage Program is looking for photographs of the following species.  Susan Spackman Panjabi has provided some rough distribution and phenology information, and will provide more specific information if it would be possible for you to obtain photographs of the plants and associated habitats.  Close up photos showing the flowers and/or fruit, full plants, and habitat would be ideal.  As we develop the on-line guide we will be seeking additional photos of other species and will be touch.   Please forward the photos to Susan at www.cnhp.colostate.edu.  If you have questions, Susan can be reached at 970-491-2992.

• Boechera glareosa - Moffat County, flowers in May-June, could target for fruit this year.
• Delphiunium robustum - Robust larkspur- Saguache, Huerfano, Las Animas, and El Paso counties, flowers in July-Sept.
• Draba rectifructa - Mountain draba-Grand, Summit, Rio Blanco, Gunnison, Ouray, Mineral, and Teller counties, flowers in June (photograph fruit this year)
• Lepidium crenatum -Alkali pepperweed-Moffat, Rio Blanco, Mesa, Delta, Montrose, Montezuma counties, flowers in May –Sept.
• Physaria alpine - Avery Peak twinpod-Gunnison, Pitkin, Lake, and Park counties, flowers July-August
• Puccinellia parishii - bog alkaligrass-San Miguel, Dolores counties, flowers in June

Boulder County Parks and Open Space Seeks Volunteers for Seed Collection Crew Leaders

Do you have a desire to learn more about native plants? If so, you may be a good fit for our Seed Collection Crew Leader program. Imagine yourself strolling through lush meadows gathering ripe seeds that will be used to restore diversity to the public lands you love.

Parks and Open Space is partnering with Wildlands Restoration Volunteers to train volunteers to lead native seed collection projects. Crew leaders should enjoy working outdoors, have an outgoing personality, and be comfortable interacting with people of all ages.

Volunteers must attend training on Saturday, June 16 from 8:30am-3:00pm, and commit to leading at least three projects in 2011. Training takes place at the Boulder County Parks and Open Space office at 5201 St. Vrain Road in Longmont.

For an application and more information, please contact Erica Christensen at 303-678-6329 or echristensen@bouldercounty.org.

Application deadline is June 1, 2012.

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