NRCS New York Earth Team Volunteers

We could use your help in reducing soil erosion, conserving our water and improving its quality, and developing pride in our country's natural resource heritage. Your commitment to the Earth Team will help ensure that generations to come will enjoy America's bounty.

The Earth Team, the volunteer arm of the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, is now recruiting volunteers in more than 3,000 locations across the country. Make a difference in your community by becoming an Earth Team volunteer.

Anyone 14 years of age or older and interested in conserving our precious natural resources can join the Earth Team. You can work part-time or full-time, evenings or weekends, outdoors or in a local NRCS office. You can volunteer as an individual or as a group.
 

Meet New York's Featured Earth Team Volunteers

Volunteers with a wide variety of interests and work experience play an important role in helping us get conservation on the land. Read about how their generosity has contributed to the NRCS mission....Helping People Help the Land.

• Earth Team Volunteers Stories

Where Can Earth Team Volunteers Help?

On the Land - with professional conservationists who are working directly with farmers and ranchers.

In schools - with elementary and high schools, college and university students. Through camps and classes, you can introduce young people to the wonders of nature.  

With organizations - youth groups, professional societies, or civic groups. All types of organizations are joining together to sponsor water quality education campaigns, community beautification, and erosion control projects. Cooperative Earth Team efforts can help solve many natural resource problems in your area.

In offices - NRCS or your local Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) may want to use your talents for clerical assistance, organizing information in a computer, preparing newsletters, or educating others about natural resources conservation.
 

What Kinds of Jobs Earth Team Volunteers Do

As an Earth Team volunteer, you will work with professionals on conservation activities in your community. Whatever your talents or interests, there is a volunteer opportunity for you. Technical assistance is needed to plan, lay out, and design conservation practices, to make natural resource inventories, and to improve wildlife habitat. Schools and community groups benefit from the conservation tours and exhibits that volunteers can organize.

Taking photographs, writing articles, speaking to community groups and producing artwork and publications are some of the opportunities available. Office support services include opportunities in computer data entry, typing, filing, computer programming, and developing conservation information.

There are opportunities for everyone.
 

Earth Team Volunteer Information and Materials

• Earth Team Volunteers
  NRCS Earth Team Web site
   

• Earth Team Volunteer Application Forms

The following documents require Adobe Reader.

The Earth Team - Handbook for Volunteer Supervisors (PDF; 431 KB)

Earth Team Orientation (PDF; 472 KB)

Contact Information

Earth Team Coordinator

Patricia Hammer
USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service
Syracuse, New York
Telephone: 315-477-6547
Fax: 315-477-6560

If you encounter any problems with files provided on this page, have questions, suggestions, or find a broken link, please contact Gary Vandawalker at 315-477-6546.

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