Volunteer Opportunities
Are you interested in having an intimate relationship with the Valles Caldera National Preserve? Are you wondering how to do it? Why not be a volunteer? Los Amigos is looking for Volunteers to help with the Gift Shops, our watershed restoration project in Alamo Bog, our potential work on the restoration of the Bond Cabin, to assist Misty Blue with her extremely successful NM 4 interpretive program, or to come on out and join Los Amigos for our spring volunteer work party to help clean up the historic district.
I’ve been volunteering at the Preserve for a few years now and I have been lucky enough to have a chance to explore many normally unseen areas of the Caldera and to meet wonderful people. In 2005, I directed one of the mountain bike events as a volunteer. It was hard work putting it all together, but the rewards of being able to lay out, survey, and set up the course were fantastic. It was an experience I will always treasure. I was able to travel the course extensively on bike and by Jeep. Now, as Los Amigos Vice Chair, I have been active in helping to organize many of the events and activities for our organization. It’s been a pleasure to work with so many fantastic folks and to hear the stories of their experience with the land and the people who inhabit it.
I encourage you to consider volunteering with Los Amigos as a wonderful way to gain a closer association with the Valles Caldera, its wildlife, its people, its history, and its terrain.
The Trust and Los Amigos are looking for Gift Shop volunteers, who can commit to one day a week volunteering at one of the two Gift Shops the Trust Los Amigos members will have a number of opportunities to enjoy the Preserve—and to help it—this year. We hope you will take advantage of these opportunities! -Greg Kendall
Read about the following opportunities on our blog.
Headquarters & Historic Area Cleanup Day
HWY 4 - Roadside Interpreter
Gift Shop Volunteer
Environmental work to protect young trees in the Alamo Bog area (this activity has not been finalized)
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