Get involved and support Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve by volunteering in one or more of the many opportunities that await your discovery. The preserve offers many rewarding experiences in which you can help make a difference in your world.

Volunteers preparing to collect prairie seeds with direction from Dr. Tom Eddy

Summer 2010
Natural Resource Volunteer Opportunities

Prairie Seed Harvesting - Help the staff harvest prairie seeds from 9 a.m. to noon on dates yet to be determined. The seeds collected will be used to restore bottomland prairie areas at the preserve. Volunteers should wear appropriate clothing, wear sturdy shoes and sun hat, bring drinking water, and wear bug spray. Training will be provided by the staff before the activity begins.

NPS Photo

Greater prairie chicken at the preserve

Volunteer Birders Needed with Bird Monitoring on the Preserve

Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve and the Heartland Network Inventory and Monitoring Program of the National Park Service are seeking the assistance of volunteer birders to augment an ongoing region wide bird monitoring program.  Volunteer birders will apply standard monitoring techniques to determine the annual distribution and abundance of breeding birds on the preserve.  Volunteers will work closely with the parks Natural Resource Staff and the Heartland Networks project supervisor in this bird monitoring effort.

Please contact David Peitz, Wildlife Ecologist
(417) 732-6438 ext. 276
for questions specific to bird monitoring

Kristen Hase, Chief of Natural Resources
(620) 273-6034

Eric Patterson, Volunteer Coordinator
(620) 273-8494