Get Involved
Get Involved - Become a Volunteer!
Volunteer mowing. Photo Credit: USFWS
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It's fun! It's rewarding! It's something new to do! The staff of
The Eastern Shore of Virginia and Fisherman Island National Wildlife Refuges would like to invite you to volunteer your time and skills. We are always in need of help in maintenance, interpretation, education and visitor services. You'll learn new skills, acquire new knowledge, meet new people and make new friends!
Help us achieve our mission - become a volunteer!
If you are interested in volunteering, please call us at 757-331-2760
Workamping
If you have a recreational vehicle or motor home and enjoy living and working on a beautiful wildlife refuge, consider our available positions. In exchange for a gravel pad and full hook-ups, you will work 3 to 4 days a week in our expansive and modern Visitor Center.
Responsibilities include opening and closing the Center, greeting all visitors, answering questions about the Refuge and the Eastern Shore of Virginia in general, running a cash register for sales from our small bookstore, and helping people have a fun and educational visit to our gorgeous Refuge.
The Visitor Center has a wildlife viewing window through which you can see deer, ducks, turkey, osprey, glossy ibis, fox and many other creatures. We also have our own reality television show: “Osprey Family,” a live broadcast from a nearby nest viewed via a television in the Visitor Center and also through a spotting scope at the viewing window. The Center has numerous displays, including a Please Touch table, decoys, video displays and lovely dioramas with carved birds. Outside there are two butterfly gardens and one mile of trails that meander by high quality songbird habitat, a marsh overlook, an historic cemetery and a World War II bunker.
If you are interested in Workamping, please call us at 757-331-2760
Volunteers working the Visitor Center. Photo Credit: USFWS
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Volunteer working with school group. Photo Credit: Jessica Flory
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