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VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES

Volunteers play a vital role in helping the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service fulfill its mission of conserving and enhancing America’s fish and wildlife and their habitats. At Buenos Aires NWR, volunteers perform a wide variety of tasks. Outdoor work includes maintenance of trails and campsites (brush trimming and litter clean-up), general litter clean-up on the refuge, maintenance and handyman projects, and fence repair or fence removal. Public use projects include greeting and helping visitors at the visitor center, leading nature walks, and giving presentations to schools or other groups. Occasional biological work is available; no experience required. We can use people with writing skills, computer ability, and clerical and administrative skills. Volunteers are particularly needed during late spring and in the fall, especially for visitor center staffing. Positions fill up fast during the winter.

Residential volunteers work four 8-hour days per week, staying for an average of three months. The refuge provides RV hook-ups, propane, limited on-site trailer housing, and a government vehicle for work duties. Local volunteers come to us from neighboring communities and may volunteer on an as-needed basis ranging from one day a week to one day a year. The refuge is indebted to groups such as Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Arizona Wildlife Federation, and Arizona State University; such groups conduct work projects for the refuge from one to several days.

If you have an interest in volunteering at Buenos Aires NWR, you may call the refuge at: 520/823-4251 x 108, or email: Bonnie_Swarbrick@fws.gov for information or an application. You may apply online at www.volunteer.gov/gov

You may also write to:
Volunteer Coordinator
Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge
P.O. Box 109
Sasabe, AZ 85633

Friends of Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge

National Wildlife Refuges have many needs beyond those that can be supplied by their traditional funding sources and limited staff. The Friends of Buenos Aires provide volunteers for many important refuge activities and raise funds for a variety of refuge projects. For more information regarding this vital support group, please check their website at www.friendsofbanwr.org

   
   

Buenos Aires NWR Photo
John & Joanne Koecheler Buenos Aires NWR Volunteers

   
             
                 
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