YOUTH AND EDUCATION VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES

Areas to Volunteer

Current Listings!

Festival/Event Volunteer
Represent California Waterfowl at a festival, brush-up day, or ISE show by manning an exhibit booth. Give out information about the associationand its youth programs to the public, or help kids complete our Wetland Wizards quizzes or participate in other special learning activities.

 

Class Presentations Volunteer
Make presentations about the Federal Junior Duck Stamp Program or the Wood Duck program to K-12 students and their teachers in classrooms throughout California.

 

Marsh Madness Volunteer
Give disadvantaged youths a chance to experience the wonder of the wetlands. Morning exploration is followed by an afternoon game that teaches wetlands restoration, cooperation, and consumptive use. Volunteer to help with activities, nature walks, barbecuing, food service, or games.

 

Youth Waterfowl Hunt
Enhance the hunt day for youth by providing warm drinks, snacks, prizes and educational interaction either before the hunt in the early morning, or as the young hunters come back through the check station.

 

Youth Camp Volunteer
You can also share the waterfowl hunting heritage with youth during a CWA youth camp near you. Volunteers with skills in duck calling, waterfowl identification, waterfowl decoys, shooting (rifle, shotgun and archery), retrievers, wildlife art, cooking, and much more are all needed.

 

Outdoor Adventures Volunteer
Introduce youth to outdoor recreational pursuits and conservation by being a member of Outdoor Adventure day camp committee in your area.

 

Bird Salvage Volunteer
Help CWA clean and prepare skulls and feet from salvaged birds to use as educational materials. Or, if you have experience in taxidermy, donate your time to creating mounts from specimens we have collected.

 

Office Projects Volunteer
Help out at the CWA office by making items for the Wild about Wetlands kits, or help create Day camp activities, scan photos, collate duck cards, or do data entry. Research for and/or write articles for our magazine or for Sprig tales, our youth publication.

 

Donate Your Outdoor Photos or Original Art
CWA is always in need of good quality waterfowl, hunting, and other photographs that can be used in the magazine, on educational materials, and online.


Prefer to draw or paint? Your donated waterfowl images would enhance our newsletters and displays. Donated lithographs help generate funds for CWA programs!

To donate your photographs or artwork for use in publications, email Erik Bergren at erik_bergren@calwaterfowl.org

To donate photographs or original artworks for fundraising purposes, email Ken Peterson at ken_peterson@calwaterfowl.org


California Waterfowl Association
4630 Northgate Blvd. Suite 150, Sacramento, CA 95834
(916) 648-1406 Fax: (916) 648-1665

 
 
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For more information regarding Youth and Education Volunteer Opportunities, please email becky_easter@
calwaterfowl.org
or call
(916) 648-1406.