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The Earth Needs YOU -- Join the Earth Team!


You can make a difference. Join the 30,000 Earth Team volunteers across the United States working to improve our environment.

As a volunteer, you could gain professional experience, discover a lifetime career, receive training, earn academic credit, work on conservation activities in your community, and help conserve natural resources for future generations.

What can Volunteers do?                        Volunteer and Conservationist behind sprinkler wheel line

Help reduce soil erosion, conserve our water and improve its quality, carry the conservation message to schools, and take pride in our country's natural resource heritage. Whatever your talents or interests, there is a volunteer opportunity for you.

How Can You Get Involved?

Volunteer with the Earth Team. You will help your community, your country and our Earth. Volunteers write articles for newsletters, take photos of conservation practices, learn computer and office skills through on-the-job training, prepare and staff environmental exhibits for special events, assist with engineering design and drafting, plan conservation practice field demonstrations, mark fields `on soil maps, measure crop residue, or work with professional staff on a variety of projects.

If you can help or would like more information, contact: 

Gayla Pressett
State Volunteer Coordinator for Utah NRCS
540 West Price River Drive
Price, UT 84501
Phone:  435-637-0041 ext 15
Gayla.Pressett@ut.usda.gov

 

"The NRCS Earth Team supports educational institutions and increases youth awareness awareness and knowledge of our environment and water quality issues."