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To register for a volunteer workday, please send an email to volunteersmaine@tnc.org with your name and contact information and the event you are interested in. We will send you a confirmation and further information on workday tasks, where to meet, what to wear, and tools to bring. Workdays are limited to 12 participants. Check back occasionally to see new additions to the schedule.
Our 2008 Volunteer Workday Schedule includes:
- Trail Maintenance at Berry Woods in Georgetown, Saturday, April 19 from 9 am to 3 pm. We will be working to repair an eroded section of trail and will be removing winter blowdowns from the trail.
- Trail Maintenance at Saco Heath Preserve in Saco, Sunday, April 20th, Sunday, May 18th, Sunday, June 22nd, Sunday, July 20th, Sunday, August 24th, Sunday, Sept 21st, and Sunday October 19th, 2008 from 9 am to 4 pm. Volunteers will help replace and repair sections of boardwalk along the trail that takes our visitors through a raised bog.
- Beach cleanup and plover fencing at Morse Mountain Conservation Area in Phippsburg, Sunday, May 4 from 9 am to 3 pm. This is our annual beach cleanup and installation of the piping plover fencing on Seawall Beach.
- Trail maintenance at Great Wass Island Preserve in Beals, Saturday, May 17 from 9 am to 3 pm. Volunteers will help repair and replace sections of bog bridge along the Little Cape Point Trail. rested in.
- National Trails Day: Trail Maintenance at the Basin Preserve in Phippsburg, Saturday, June 7 from 9 am to 3 pm. We will be repairing sections of trail including construction of waterbars and other erosion control structures.
In addition to one day Volunteer Workdays, we also will be holding a series of Bioblitzes at relatively new Conservancy preserves in Maine. These events are rapid natural resource inventories and we are looking for interested naturalists to help us document plant and animal species, and assess the condition of natural communities.
Our 2008 Bioblitz schedule includes:
- Wells Barrens in Wells, June 4, 5, and 6. This 380 acre parcel is our newest preserve and is just to the south of Kennebunk Plains Preserve. This property includes sandplain grasslands, pitch pine-scrub oak barrens, red maple alluvial forest, and early successional gray birch – aspen forest.
- Basin Preserve in Phippsburg, June 17, 18 and 19. This 1,910 acre preserve was donated to the Conservancy in 2007. The preserve includes some of the best examples of ridgetop pitch pine woodland along the coast. There are also extensive red oak-white pine forests, hemlock slopes, intertidal mudflats, black spruce bogs, and shrub swamps.
- Spring River Preserve in T10 and T16, July 23, 24 and 25. This 10,000 acre preserve includes the north slope of Tunk Mountain as well as extensive riparian habitat on Narraguagus Lake, Spring River, and the West Branch of Narraguagus River. A large sedge meadow/shrub swamp complex is located along the shores of Myrick Pond and Ash Bog. Although the preserve is extensively shaped by past logging, there are pockets of relatively intact pine-oak forest, northern hardwoods, birch aspen forests, and spruce flats.
Nature picture credits (top to bottom, left to right): Photo © Harold E. Malde (Heath at Saco Heath Preserve); Photo © Nancy Sferra/TNC (Debsconeag Lakes Wilderness Area).
