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Name: Email: Address: City: State: Zip: Telephone: Comments: In the Field Behind the Scenes Speaker for a Program: If you have a certain subject matter that you would like to share with the group, let us know! The speaker programs are generally indoors and last up to 2 hours (including Q&A). Yes No Publications: Whether you enjoy coming up with ideas for publications or helping to design and develop them, we can use your talents. We need assistance in researching information, creating brochures and designing posters. If you have special skills with graphics design and layout or have a good eye for catching typos, we could use some help with those aspects too. Yes No Judging/Evaluating: There are a few occasions throughout the year where we request volunteers to serve on a panel to evaluate an application, be it for the Science Fair, the LWC Green Business award, poster contest or on an ad hoc project. We welcome your participation and expertise at one of these panels. Yes No Field Trip/Nature Walk Leader or Assistant: We currently lead a variety of field trips and nature walks and can use more volunteers to lead walks for areas that you feel comfortable leading (e.g., birds, butterflies, wildflowers, dragonflies, general nature).  We also need volunteers to assist the leader – it’s a great way to learn and also help make field trips more successful. Yes No LWC Fair Booth:  Throughout the year, we set up our LWC tent and table at local fairs. Help us to “man the booth” for a few hours here and there. This includes handing out informational materials and answering general questions about LWC. We volunteer in pairs so there is always a backup if you need to take a break. Yes No Stream Monitoring: Join one of our stream monitoring teams. We'll provide the training. Each team monitors their stream 3x per year, spending about three hours each time. The main focus of stream monitoring is to look at benthic macroinvertebrates (insects) that live in the water in order to determine the health of the streams throughout the County. To learn more and volunteer for this program, please visit the Stream Monitoring Page and fill in the sign up form. Writer for Habitat Herald: New contributors to the Habitat Herald are always needed. Areas for writing include: the lead article which sets the theme for the issue, “how to” and tips articles, “featured friend” articles about specific animals, “insect ID” articles about interesting insects, “native plant highlight” articles on interesting facts on plants around us. Articles can be short or long. Yes No Bluebird Trail Monitoring: Each monitoring team consists of four monitors. Each monitor visits the trail one day per month to check the nest boxes and record information such as bird species seen, number of eggs, and number of fledglings. The monitoring season lasts from late March through August. Training at the trail and an information packet on bluebirds is provided to new monitors. If you’d like to set up a new trail at a local park or restore an existing trail at a public location, we could really use your help with that too. To learn more and volunteer for this program, please visit the Bluebird Monitoring Page and fill in the sign up form. The Mailing Team: Every few months we assemble a team to label and stuff envelopes and sort the items we’re mailing by zip-code for the post office. We’re usually doing this for the Habitat Herald but we also do this for special mailings to the membership. A few more helping hands are always appreciated. Yes No Amphibian Monitoring: We have developed three tracks for this monitoring program: Frog Call Survey, Site Survey, and Migration Mapping. Participate in as many tracks as you’d like.  Monitoring takes place at least once during each of the 4 peak periods (February – July) but can also be done more frequently through August.  Training materials are provided. To learn more and volunteer for this program, please visit the Amphibian Monitoring Page and fill in the sign up form. Programs Development: Our Programs Committee meets once every few months to brainstorm ideas for speaker programs and field trips and then help reach out to local experts to schedule/plan the events. If you'd like to be a part of this, please let us know. In addition, we need volunteers to help with the logistics for executing programs such as helping with refreshments and setting up the room. Yes No Habitat Restoration: We’re looking for volunteers to help plan and execute habitat restoration projects.  If you have an idea or would like to participate in an event please let us know.  We plan 1-2 habitat restoration projects per year. Yes No Membership Development: Help build our voice for wildlife by helping with our outreach to more Loudoun citizens. Support in this area includes helping identify ways to reach more citizens, participating in mailings, creating promotional materials, and assembling/sending the new member information packet. Yes No Conservation Advocacy: Advocacy is a critical part of our work to preserve and protect healthy wildlife habitat here in Loudoun. This Committee needs a few more people to help in areas such as researching issues, designing advocacy tools, developing messages, and coordinating logistics for advocacy efforts. If you have interest in joining us in any of these areas, please volunteer. Yes No Fundraising: While we are an all-volunteer organization, we still have to pay for materials, speaker fees and equipment. Fundraising is critical to our being able to operate. Each year, we hold a variety of fundraising events such as a Benefit Concert, Birdathon, spring raffle or holiday bazaar.  We need your help in conducting these fundraising activities and in coming up with new ideas. Yes No Naturalist Instructors: We provide middle school and high school teachers with volunteer instructors for field studies/trips for a variety of natural history and watershed subjects.  Volunteers are needed during school hours on weekdays normally in the spring and fall.  Volunteers allow teachers to divide classes into small groups for instruction. Yes No Public Relations: This committee develops press releases on our programs and initiatives and coordinates with the media to get our message out. We need volunteers to help prepare materials as well as to keep our brochures stocked at the local libraries, community centers and businesses where we have permission to put out our brochures. Yes No Volunteer Coordination: This committee makes “first contact” with new volunteers, welcomes them to LWC, provides additional information about LWC, and ensures that the connections are made to appropriate LWC committee chairs and coordinators so new volunteers can become involved. If you'd like to help make our volunteer program stronger, please join this committee. Yes No Please identify this picture: Click to identify Bluebird Gray Tree Frog Silvery Checkerspot Butterfly Yellow-Billed Cuckoo Bluebird Nestbox With Eggs Dogwood Tree