[Plsgs] New Student Organization: Green Volunteering

[Georgina Lambert]

I wanted to see if any grad students are interested in the green
volunteering student organization that I will be creating this fall.  The
plan is to centralize many green volunteering opportunities through this
organization and deliver a weekly (maybe monthly) email digest directly to
student members.

 

Volunteering opportunities could include:

tree planting/assessment, buffelgrass/invasive species removal/mapping/data
collection, adopt-a-park/street/wash, erosion control measure
installation/monitoring, air quality monitoring, fire management, trail
maintenance, litter removal, building maintenance, landscape restoration,
desert animal care, gardening

 

Organizations that I've already made contact with include:

Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum

Tucson Clean & Beautiful / City of Tucson

Southern Arizona Buffelgrass Coordination Center

USDA-NRCS Plant Materials Center

Altar Valley Conservation Alliance

Pima County Dept of Environmental Quality

The Nature Conservancy

Town of Oro Valley

Saguaro National Park

Tucson Botanical Gardens

 

IF ANYONE IS INTERESTED IN HELPING ME GET THIS ORGANIZATION UP AND RUNNING
OR WOULD JUST LIKE TO BE A MEMBER (to receive the email list of green
volunteer opportunities, no pressure to actually volunteer) PLEASE RESPOND
TO THIS EMAIL AND LET ME KNOW AT WHAT LEVEL YOU'D LIKE TO BE INVOLVED (eg.
leadership role, member only).  PLEASE ALSO MENTION WHAT DEPARTMENT YOU ARE
FROM.

 

I plan to hold a meeting in early September to gather everyone that wants to
get involved on more than the member level.

 

So that's it!  I hope some of you will want to get involved.  I think it
will be a great way to make new friends, meet environmental professionals
throughout Southern Arizona, get your hands dirty, and get a few good deeds
under your belt.  If you've made it all the way to the end of this email,
thanks a lot!!! 

 

-- 

Kerrie Geil

kgeil at email.arizona.edu 

Department of Atmospheric Sciences

University of Arizona

PAS Building Rm 526

1118 E 4th Street

Tucson, AZ 85721

 

 

 

Ms. Georgina Lambert

Program Coordinator, Sr.

School of Plant Sciences

University of Arizona

Tucson, AZ 85721

Office  520-621-1219

Cell  520-404-2856

FAX 520-621-7186

 

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