Volunteer Opportunities:
Greetings volunteers! This site is here to help you find and promote volunteer project opportunities. If you have ideas for other projects that Woodland Advisors might want to help with, send them to Angela Gupta at agupta@umn.edu, or call her at 507-280-2869.
Collect tree seed for schools
Help with the Woodland Advisor newsletter
Send in photos from your woodland and activities
Help teachers at an area School Forest
Continuing volunteer opportunities:
Tree seed collection
Tree Trust has developed a Tree Trunk of ready-to-use lessons, materials and resources about forests and natural resources that teachers can incorporate into various school subjects and grade levels. The lessons emphasize hands-on learning, so the Trunk is filled with items to see and touch. One lesson is called “Seeds and the Life Cycle of Trees.” Students learn how seeds travel and which seeds are produced by various trees.
This is where I could use your help: COLLECTING THE SEEDS!! Each school we work with (usually eight schools a year) will receive packets of 20-30 of each seed.
Kentucky Coffeetree – Gymnocladus dioica
Green Ash – Fraxinus pennsylvanica
American Basswood – Tilia americana
Jack Pine – Pinus banksiana
Red Pine – Pinus resinosa
American Elm – Ulmus Americana
White Cedar – Thuja occidentalis
Ironwood – Ostrya virginiana
Box Elder – Acer negundo
Silver Maple – Acer saccharinum
Eastern Cottonwood – Populus deltoides
White Spruce – Picea glauca
Paper Birch – Betula papyrifera
Yellow Birch – Betula alleghaniensis
Catalpa – Catalpa speciosa
If this sounds like a project you’d like to help with, please:
- collect any of the seeds mentioned
- put them in a zip lock bag
- mail them to: Barb Spears, Tree Trust, 2350 Wycliff Street, Suite 200, St. Paul, MN 55114
- If you have questions, contact Kirsten Andenas, 651-644-5800.
Woodland Advisor newsletter
Anytime – From home, help produce the next Woodland Advisor Newsletter. Help develop articles, edit, and suggest exemplary volunteers for future newsletters. Contact: Angie Gupta, 888-241-4536.
Share photos
Anytime – From home or in the woods, send us pictures that can be used for a calendar or in the newsletter as needed. Woods shots are nice, but the best photos will have you or your family members in them, working or having fun in the woods. Contact: Angie Gupta, 888-241-4536.
School Forests
Anytime during the school year – Volunteer at a local school forest. Woodland Advisors can either help out in the classroom or go for walks in the woods with teachers. Contact: Amy Kay Kerber of the Minnesota DNR at at 651-297-2214 or 888-646-6367. You can also get more information at the school forest website.
Angela Gupta, the Regional Extension Educator for the University of Minnesota in Rochester, is organizing Woodland Advisor Volunteer activities. If you have questions about volunteer opportunities or would like to notify Angie of upcoming opportunities for others, she can be reached at agupta@umn.edu or 888-241-4536.
Also, please email or call Angie to tell us about your Woodland Advisor volunteer experiences! Your reports will help us to document the impact of the good work that you do.
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