Next Steps - Fall 2022
Video: https://youtu.be/y5eoyniB17k
Quiz link: https://uky.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3t4AcRPZgz5vvSK
Presenters in volunteer spotlight:
- Volunteering with Office of Kentucky Nature Preserves
- Maddy Heredia <madeline.heredia@ky.gov
- Sign up for Office of KY Nature Preserves listserv at https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/su/nvhDQpP
- Volunteering with KY State Parks,
- Erin Lambirth, <Erin.Lambirth@ky.gov>
- Complete volunteer form (pdf provided)
- Requesting volunteers now:
- Cumberland Falls State Resort Park: Joe Mounce, Joe.Mounce@ky.gov, 606-528-4121. Landscaping, flower beds, trash pick-up, and driftwood cleanup.
- Old Mulkey Meetinghouse State Historic Site: Sheila Rush, Sheila.Rush@ky.gov, 270-487-8481. Creating Monarch WayStation and would also love to have a speaker(s) for Plant & Seed Swap, topic of their choice. Someone to lead a wildflower ID walk & discussion. Forest bathing program.
- Perryville Battlefield State Historic Site: Bryan Bush, Bryan.Bush@ky.gov, 859-332-8631. Would like to have volunteers that would like to put together a walking naturalist tour of the battlefield and highlight our birds and wildflowers. We have bird trails but no interpretive brochures or interpretive walks.
- John James Audubon State Park: Lisa Hoffman, Lisa.Hoffman@ky.gov, (502)782-9727. Many jobs throughout year!
- Volunteering with CoCoRaHS (Collaborative Community Rain, Hail, and Snow network)
- Megan Schargorodski, <megan.ferris@wku.edu>
- https://www.cocorahs.org/
- Volunteering with Land Between the Lakes
- John Pollpeter and Nickolaus Willis <jmpollpeter@hotmail.com> Nickolaus Willis <nwillis@friendsoflbl.org>
- Volunteering with Watershed Watch,
- Steve Evans, <steve.evans@uky.edu>
- Watershed Watch https://www.kywater.org/
- Four Rivers Watershed Watch: https://www.frww.org/
- Green River Watershed Watch: https://sites.google.com/grww.org/grww/home?pli=1
- Salt River Watershed Watch: https://sites.google.com/site/saltriverwatershedwatch/
- Upper Cumberland Watershed Watch: http://www.uppercumberlandriver.org/
- Kentucky River Watershed Watch: https://www.krww.org/
- Licking River Watershed Watch: http://www.lrww.org/
- Big Sandy Watershed Watch: https://www.bigsandyww.org/
- Volunteering with LFUCG parks,
- Anna Wiker, <awiker@lexingtonky.gov>
- Raven Run: https://ravenrun.org/volunteer
- McConnell Springs: https://www.lexingtonky.gov/mcconnell-springs-park and https://mcconnellsprings.org/donation/
- Volunteering with Archaeology
- Jay Stottman, jay.stottman@wku.edu
- Volunteering with Boone County Extension
- Lacey Kessell, <lacey.laudick@uky.edu>
- Volunteering with North American Butterfly Association,
- Volunteering with UK Arboretum
- Jess Slade, <Jessica.Slade@uky.edu>
- Volunteering with Salato Wildlife Center
- Nikki Nivison, Nikki.Nivison@ky.gov
- Complete application here: https://fw.ky.gov/Education/Documents/SalatoVolunteerApplication.pdf
- Volunteering with Josephine Sculpture Park
