Garlic Mustard Pull - World's End

Opportunity Overview:
Interested in ecology? Want to promote biodiversity on our properties and across Massachusetts? Combine your love of nature with service by helping The Trustees to curb the harmful spread of invasive species. This volunteer position requires removing invasive species and bagging them for removal. Work is mostly independent with occasional opportunities to work with staff and other volunteers. This position is vital to helping The Trustees’ achieve their ecological stewardship goals. 

For this independent role, volunteers should check in with the Ranger Station upon their arrival to pick up bags and receive directions to where Garlic Mustard is growing at World's End. There will be a map with the area marked, and a cone at that site to mark it. Volunteers should leave filled garlic mustard bags at the cone for the Stewardship team to retrieve. 

Volunteers should bring gloves, wear closed-toed shoes and long pants for insect protection, and wear bug spray and sun protection as needed. 

Reports to: Stewardship Manager

Benefits:

• Outdoor, fresh air experience in natural settings
• Helping to create a welcoming, supportive and inclusive community
• Connecting and networking with like-minded staff, visitors and volunteers

• Assist with invasive species control at World’s End
• Coordinate with staff around targeted populations and species.
• Walk the property and remove invasive species such as pale swallowwort, Asiatic bittersweet, bush honeysuckle, and garlic mustard
• Remove invasive species, primarily by hand pulling (combined with use of a hand-pick or dandelion weeder)
• Place these weeded plants in a garbage bag and leave them at the cone at the invasives site for pick up
• Report new populations or species observed
• Adhere to The Trustees safety protocols

• Ability to work both as part of a team and independently
• Dress in appropriate field clothes and footwear for varying weather conditions: hot and dry, cold or wet, etc.
• Ability to walk to the site, and then to stand and bend for the duration of the volunteer shift. 
• Observance of Trustees safety protocol
• Plant identification skills
• Age minimum: This role is open to ages 8+ but requires 1:1 supervision for children interested in participating. 

• Wednesdays and Saturdays 9am-12pm from May 10th- 31st

Contact the Volunteer Services Team at [email protected]

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More about The Trustees
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Covid-19 Volunteer Safety:
The health and safety of Trustees’ volunteers, staff and visitors is our top priority.

• If you are not feeling well, please stay home
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