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Earth Team Volunteers

The Earth Team is a volunteer program of the Natural Resources Conservation Service.

As an Earth Team Volunteer, you can be part of the solution.  You'll learn new skills while working side-by-side with professionals from the Natural Resources Conservation Service. Earth Team volunteers are... People like you - professionals and nonprofessionals, retirees, students. Folks willing to lend a hand to conserve our natural resources. Working together we can make a difference.

For more Earth Team information contact your local NH NRCS offices or call 1-800-LANDCARE. Bring a friend!  Visit the national Earth Team Website  

With the Earth Team, you can help improve the natural resources in your community while learning about the environment and conservation.

Here are a few examples of Earth Team Volunteers at work: 

  • Four high school students worked with NRCS and Conservation District employees and others to install 1' x 20' fiber rolls along the shoreline of the Connecticut River in North Haverhill as part of an erosion control project. 
  • An environmental consultant assisted with the 5th Annual Soil Judging Contest for high school students which gives students an awareness of soil properties and how they affect different land uses. 
  • Students and adults have been taking part in a water table study at four sites in Coos County. 
  • A UNH student developed a database to collect information from towns that have used the New Hampshire Method for the Comparative Evaluation of Nontidal Wetlands.
  • Students from a special needs class in Laconia assist the Belknap County Conservation District with general clerical duties.
  • A payroll clerk is assisting the NRCS cartographer digitizing information for maps and in the process is learning about the geographic information program. 

Types of Work

  • On the land - With a soil conservationist volunteers help landusers plan conservation projects or take field surveys. Best of all, they see how their conservation work cares for our natural resources. 
  • In schools - Earth Team volunteers teach students about conservation. Through outdoor classrooms, they teach urban students how to stop erosion in schoolyards. 
  • With organizations - Earth Team volunteers help youth groups, churches, garden and service clubs, and other organizations learn about ecosystem management. They teach them that plants, animals, soil, water, and humans are interdependent, or show them how to turn abandoned eroded land into a nature center or playground. 
  • In offices - Volunteers can keep offices organized, put together newsletters, and keep people up-to-date about local conservation issues.

Requirements

Earth Team volunteers must be at least 14 years of age. There is no maximum age limit. Volunteers work outdoors or indoors; part-time or full time.

Benefits

Earth Team Volunteers get recognized for their work hours and have legal and insurance protection for any work-related injuries. There's no pay, but they get the satisfaction and enjoyment of enhancing our Nation's ecosystems. 

Get Started

Contact your local NRCS office.  You can also call the state volunteer coordinator at (603) 868-7581 or stop by the NRCS office located on the second floor of the Post Office building in Durham.