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Get Involved - Become a Volunteer!Do you have a skill you'd like to share? We can use your help. Volunteers perform a wide variety of tasks including: providing information to the public in the Visitor Center, gardening and landscaping, assisting with public and school programs, taking part in special events and projects, helping with maintenance projects and performing clerical duties, to name a few. Help us achieve our mission - become a volunteer! If you are interested in volunteering, please send an e-mail message to: fw5rw_esvnwr@fws.gov, or phone: 757-331-2760 |
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WorkampingIf 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, bluebird nesting boxes 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 send an e-mail message to: fw5rw_esvnwr@fws.gov, or phone: 757-331-2760 |
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