Oxbow Center Volunteer Application

Join Oxbow’s Conservation Team at our Saturday restoration work party!

On the 2nd Saturday of each month we get together to learn about and improve critical habitats for plants, wildlife, and people. Work happens outdoors, rain or shine, and focuses on projects at Oxbow. Work includes protecting trees with mulch or tube protectors, digging up blackberries and other invasive plants, and other tasks that help our plants thrive. With your help, we can support salmon (and those that depend on them) and rebuild a resilient landscape that supports people’s livelihoods, produces food, and remains beautiful and ecologically diverse!

Work parties are limited to 20 volunteers. Ages 13 and under are welcome with an adult volunteer. Volunteers age 14 and up may come on their own.

Conservation volunteers help our conservation team with ecological restoration and research projects on scheduled Wednesdays with both a morning and afternoon shift available. Most work occurs at Oxbow, though beginning this November, much of our work will involve planting at the Fall City Floodplain Restoration Project. Helping with projects such as weeding, planting, and conducting research will likely require hiking, bushwhacking, digging, and generally getting dirty and sweaty in all weather conditions, so volunteers should come prepared! Volunteers can choose to participate on a weekly or monthly schedule or participate off-and-on as their schedule allows.

Conservation Volunteers should be 16 or older.