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Point Reyes National Seashore
Volunteer
 

About 2.5 million visitors annually enjoy Point Reyes National Seashore’s wildlands and opportunities for recreation and solitude. You can enrich your experience by being involved, by volunteering.

As a volunteer, you can experience the park in ways that casual visitors cannot by working in areas less traveled and working with park staff that can provide you with an inside look into park operations. You have opportunities for fun, interesting, and satisfying work while gaining new skills and meeting new people in a beautiful setting. By giving your time to volunteer, you will find that Point Reyes National Seashore has much to give back.

At Point Reyes, volunteers:

  • Restore critical habitat by collecting and planting native grass seed, protecting riparian habitat, and locating, identifying and removing exotic, invasive plants
  • Monitor wildlife, such as coho salmon and steelhead trout, harbor seals, snowy plovers, and tule elk
  • Maintain and repair trails
  • Care for the park’s Morgan horses
  • Maintain the Coast Miwok cultural exhibit at Kule Loklo
  • Maintain and catalogue artifacts for the park’s museum and archive
  • Patrol the park on foot, bike, horse, and kayak
  • Educate park visitors about tule elk, snowy plovers, elephant seals, and gray whales
  • Staff the park’s visitor centers and assist visitors with questions

By volunteering, you will take pride in being a steward of one of America’s most treasured national park sites.

Won’t you become a volunteer at Point Reyes National Seashore?

Apply now!

Please contact for more information:
Doug Hee
Volunteer Program Manager
415-464-5145
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Did You Know?
Marine biologists have identified nearly a third of all known marine mammal species in the waters surrounding Point Reyes. Blue whales and humpback whales feed here during spring and summer months. Gray whales migrate past our shores twice a year on their round trip from Alaska to Baja.
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Last Updated: May 06, 2008 at 14:29 EST