Volunteering
Volunteers assist NAP in all aspects of our work, and are vital to NAP's efforts. NAP projects take volunteers beyond the realm of litter clean-up into working to restore and care for natural areas. Through hands-on tasks and scientific knowledge, we encourage a connection between volunteers and their surrounding natural environment. Volunteers play an key role in fostering an environmental ethic in the community.
How can I volunteer with Natural Area Preservation?
Stewardship Workdays
Public workdays are on hold during spring 2025. Thank you for your interest and please check back near the summer for information about any planned public workdays.
Prescribed Burn Crew
Training and openings for the Volunteer Burn Crew are on hold in 2025. Thank you for your interest and please check back near the end of the year for information about 2026.
Natural Features Inventory
Join us at our spring kickoff sessions to learn about inventory procedures, routes, and training. We currently have four surveys: Salamanders, Frogs and Toads, Turtle Stewards, and Breeding Birds. We also partner with the Michigan Butterfly Network and the Kalamazoo Nature Center on butterfly surveys.
Park Stewardship
Park Stewards get to to help design and take part in stewardship activities, monitor park ecology, run workdays and more.
Skilled Hands
We always need volunteers who have office and publicity skills, especially in social media and graphic design. We do accept a small number of interns, mostly in the fields of biology and ecology.
Looking for a volunteer opportunity for a group such as a church, business or scout troop?
NAP welcomes community groups, but scheduling is on hold for winter and spring 2025. Please reach back out at a later date or send us a message to be put on a wait list!
734.794.6627
