Get Involved With Northeast Wilderness Trust

Internship

Due to an overwhelming response by an impressive pool of applicants, our summer internships are already full! We have internships available for Fall 2008. To apply, please send a cover letter and resume to Lindsey Farnsworth. Learn more about this exciting opportunity!

Volunteer

Volunteers are crucial to NWT’s land protection efforts. And there are almost as many ways to contribute your time and energy as there are reasons for caring about northeastern wilderness conservation. Current volunteer opportunities are listed below. To learn more about any of these activities, or to volunteer, please call or email us: 617.742.0628 or info@newildernesstrust.org

Easement Monitoring: Volunteer Land Stewards help NWT meet one of its most fundamental obligations: the periodic monitoring of conserved lands to ensure compliance with our easements. Training is provided by NWT staff. Volunteers may work in pairs or solo when visiting conserved properties.

Leading Outdoor Programs: Do you enjoy sharing your knowledge and love of the natural world with others? Lead a field trip for kids or adults to one of NWT’s conserved properties to look at birds, wildflowers, wildlife signs, or some other aspect of a site’s ecology and explore its land use history. NWT can provide logistical support, event promotion, and registration.

Town Land Records Research: One way to help stitch together wildlife corridors as well as build NWT's membership – is to notify neighbors when we conserve an adjacent property. Volunteers can help us identify these abutting landowners by collecting information from town tax maps and public lists, records and deeds.

Photographing Conserved Lands: If you have a camera and an eye for composition, you can help us by visiting recently conserved properties and taking photos for use in NWT’s mailings, publications, slides shows, and website.

NWT Information Table: Help us spread the word! Travel to fairs, farmers’ markets, and other special events throughout the Northeast to help us manage literature tables and do community outreach. Those who are willing to volunteer their time in support of NWT can make excellent spokespersons.

Friendraising Events: Do you like to throw a party? Among NWT’s most effective membership building tools are the gatherings hosted by NWT members in their homes to introduce us to friends and neighbors. You provide the food and drink; we do the talking. This is one of the best ways you can help build understanding and support for land conservation in your community!

Community Membership Liaison: Help NWT build its membership base in your community. Once a year, we’ll ask you to send us 10 names and addresses of people in your community who you think would be likely supporters of NWT’s work.

Thanks for your support, we could not do it without you!