Volunteering is a great way to protect your lands and waters from invasive species and to get involved in your community. There are many different ways to volunteer with SLELO PRISM such as, assisting invasive species removals and restoration projects, aiding special projects like eDNA, and helping to survey for priority invasive species.
SLELO PRISM has over 100 volunteers who have engaged with us in some way and we’re wanting to thank them all!
As part of an engagement initiative we’ve developed a fun Volunteer Challenge where participants can join volunteer opportunities and earn prizes by achieving various “participation levels”.
"Everyone had fun and learned a lot and the event resulted in me
recruiting a volunteer to help with the hand harvesting of the milfoil later in
the fall."
"In our experience, it’s the involvement of the community
that aids to the success of invasive species control. We
enjoy volunteering with SLELO and think others would
too."
"I can’t emphasize enough how
important educating yourself
about invasive species can help."
"Volunteering with SLELO
has given me a great deal of
satisfaction. I’ve learned
how I can protect my favorite fishing and hiking spots
from the impacts of invasive
species."
"My family enjoys hiking and we make it a point to keep a
look out for invasive species out
on the trails. This is our way of protecting our
favorite hiking spots."
"While helping out hemlock trees, volunteering provided an outlet for teamwork, nature therapy, cold weather exercise and incentive to plan more adventures, local and afar."
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