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Volunteer News and Opportunities
There
are many opportunities to volunteer with Fish and Game's programs
and events. Contact the person listed below for each activity to
learn more about how you can get involved as a Fish and Game volunteer.
Here are just a few of the ways in which volunteers get involved:
Click
here to receive notices of specific volunteer opportunities by email.
Let's
Go Fishing
Volunteer instructors are the heart of the Let's Go Fishing program.
Click here to
learn how to volunteer as a Let's Go Fishing instructor.
Hunter
Education
Trained, certified volunteer instructors are needed to teach the
basic courses required for every first-time hunter, as well as bowhunter
and trapper education. Click
to learn more about Hunter Education's volunteer instructor program.
Owl
Brook Hunter Education Center
Located in Holderness, the center needs volunteers to help with
shooting range supervision, trail and grounds maintenance, explaining
exhibits to visitors, leading and assisting with center activities,
office/receptionist work and hunter education instruction. To get
involved, call Tom Flynn at (603) 536-1290, or click
here for more information on volunteering at the Owl Brook Hunter
Education Center.
Wildlife
Monitoring Activities
For the Nongame
and Endangered Wildlife Program and Cooperators
Activities you can get involved with as a volunteer with the Nongame and Endangered Wildlife Program include dragonfly
surveys, Karner blue butterfly
captive rearing and monitoring, pine barrens habitat
restoration, piping plover monitoring on the seacoast, RAARP observer (documenting reptiles and amphibians sightings), and monitoring wintering bald eagles, ospreys, peregrine falcons or Important Bird Areas. Click here for more details and contact information for these Nongame volunteer opportunities.
Wonders
of Wildlife (WOW) docents
Trained volunteers provide wildlife presentations to school
or youth groups to increase student awareness and knowledge about
habitat and the wise use of New Hampshire's wildlife resources.
A comprehensive training program includes background information,
teaching techniques and specific training on the programs docents
will present. Contact Mary Goodyear at N.H. Fish and Game at 603-846-5108,
or mary.goodyear@wildlife.nh.gov. For additional
information on WOW, click here.
Snowmobile/ATV/Trailbike
Safety Education
OHRV Safety Education Courses are taught by Fish and Game-certified
volunteer instructors. Find out more about volunteering by calling
603-271-3129. Many of the trained volunteer instructors teaching
snowmobile safety classes are members of clubs affiliated with the
New Hampshire Snowmobile Association
(click here to visit). For more information on
Fish and Game's OHRV Education Program, click here.
Great Bay Discovery Center
Located on Great Bay in the Stratham/Greenland area, Fish and
Game's education center at Sandy Point offers many opportunities
for volunteers to get involved. Volunteers participate in a variety
of projects and activities at the center, such as conducting programs
for school children, assisting with salt marsh restoration, leading
nature walks and greeting visitors. Most of these activities take
place from early spring through late fall. To volunteer, contact
Sheila Roberge at the Center, 603-778-0015, 89 Depot Road, Stratham
NH 03885 or email sheila@greatbay.org Click
here to learn more about Great Bay Discovery Center.
Marine Division - Volunteers are needed to assist Fish and Game's Marine Resources Division in various field activities, assisting biologists in activities such as sampling coastal rivers for rainbow smelt during early spring or monitoring coastal fish ladders during the spring and early summer fish migrations. Time commitment ranges between 3 and 8 hours per day, depending on the project. Help is needed on both weekdays and weekends during the spring and summer A great opportunity for aspiring fisheries and wildlife biologists or those interested in the outdoors. If interested in volunteering with the Marine Division, call Jessica Fischer or Mike Dionne at (603) 868-1095 Monday through Friday between the hours of 8 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.
Twin
Mountain Fish and Wildlife Center
Volunteers greet visitors from May through October at the center,
which is located at Fish and Game's fish hatchery on Route 3 between
Carroll and Whitefield. Volunteer greeters answer questions on fish-raising,
stocking and the theme exhibit exploring watersheds -- what they
are, how plants, animals, and humans interact and impact them. To
volunteer, contact the naturalist on site at 603-846-5108 or 603-846-5429.
Warren
Fish and Wildlife Center
Volunteers greet visitors from May through October. They answer
questions on fish-raising, stocking, and the theme exhibit -- Wildlife,
People & the Land: the different natural communities, their
associated wildlife and human interactions. To volunteer, contact
the naturalist on site at 603-764-8593. The center is located at
Fish and Game's fish hatchery in Warren.
Discover
WILD New Hampshire Day
Fish and Game's Public Affairs Division needs lots of volunteers
to help out at special events like Discover Wild New Hampshire Day,
a community education festival held on the Fish and Game headquarters
grounds in Concord on a Saturday in April each year (usually the
week of Earth Day). Volunteers pitch in to help distribute flyers,
greet visitors, guide visitors to parking spots, "person"
exhibits, flip hamburgers, help with kids crafts and much more.
Call Judy Silverberg at 603-271-3211 if you'd like to get involved
in being a volunteer at Discover WILD New Hampshire Day.
Fish
Stocking
Seasonally, the Fisheries Division needs volunteers each spring
to help with fish stocking and other activities; call 603-271-2501.
For example, volunteers assist with stocking salmon fry in early
April as part of Atlantic salmon restoration efforts. The call for
these hardy volunteers usually goes out in March:
- In central New Hampshire,
each spring Fish and Game volunteers help stock nearly a million
small Atlantic salmon -- known as "fry" -- into several
rivers and streams in the Merrimack River watershed. Volunteers
must sign up in advance. Call Vikki Leonard at Fish and Game headquarters
in Concord at (603) 271-2501 or email fisheries@wildlife.nh.gov.
- In northern New Hampshire,
volunteers help stock over a half-million Atlantic salmon fry
in several rivers and streams in the Upper Connecticut River watershed.
Contact Andrew Schafermeyer, Fisheries Biologist, N.H. Fish and
Game, at (603) 788-3164 or email andrew.schafermeyer@wildlife.nh.gov.
Click
here to sign up for Fish and Game volunteers-needed notices by email.
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