Drop-In Stewardship Ideas

Always meet an interest in stewardship with a meaningful opportunity to serve. Here’s a list to consider for your site:

  • Assist with invasive species removal

  • Trail maintenance

  • Adopt-a-Trail - monitor trail condition, performs basic maintenance, and alert park of bigger issues.

  • Prairie restoration

  • Inventory signs and sign condition throughout park

  • Clean interpretive signs

  • Paint routed signs (brown and yellow)

  • Sand and oil park benches and tables

  • Build/fill tent pads in campground

  • Clean fire pits

  • Pick up litter (micro litter, adopt-a-beach cleanups, Adopt-a-Highway, etc.)

  • Check condition of park geocaches

  • Pull weeds in wildscape garden

  • Service wildlife viewing blinds

  • Build and place nesting boxes

  • Take photos of park for social media or website

  • Take 360 photos of park to add to Google maps

  • Participate in citizen science or iNaturalist projects