We Need You!
To keep the park beautiful, several steps must be regularly taken. It takes a community to keep our community a community.
Officially, Friends of Copperfield Nature Trails sets up four to five days a year to go out and spend several hours cleaning trash, planting, mulching, and otherwise maintaining the trail. This isn’t quite enough though, so thankfully, members of our group (and also random park visitors) will go out of their way to pick up trash and report maintenance issues.
If you’d like to volunteer in one way or another, we’d love to have you. There are a few steps you can take to help make the park a better place. These steps are as follows:
Volunteer During Official Work Days
Volunteering during official work days is the most efficient way to volunteer to help out our park. The work days are usually from 9AM to 11 PM, and we typically have a list of things that need to be taken care of and are approved by the City of Austin through our partners Austin Parks Foundation and Keep Austin Beautiful. We use the GivePulse platform for volunteer events and use “Copperfield” in the event name to make searching for us easy: https://www.givepulse.com/
Volunteer On Your Own
If you’re at the trail on your own, and you just want to help, here’s a few things you can do to start:
- Pick up trash that you find along the trail and dispose of properly in park trash cans, recycle cans, or in your home trash or recycle cans.
- Clear any fallen branches that have fallen on the main trail
- Make notes of any hazardous trail conditions and report them to 311 or message us through Give Pulse: https://givepul.se/k5ryqg
- Learn about plants along the trail and document them on https://www.inaturalist.org/ this helps us and partners track and plan maintenance of our natural spaces.
Volunteer Reporting: use the Give Pulse Platform until we come up with a better way. Best to message us through Give Pulse to let us know what you did if approval of your volunteer hours are needed. Volunteer hour documentation helps us when it comes time to apply for grants. https://givepul.se/k5ryqg
8 responses to “Volunteering”
willing to volunteer
Hi James,
Please send me your email address and I will add you to the distribution list so you will know about upcoming work days.
Thank you for your willingness to volunteer!
Linda Jones, Coordinator
Friends of Copperfield Nature Trails
Also willing to volunteer 🙂
just moved here. Walked the trail for the first time! Awesome!! I’ll volunteer!! Thanks!
I’ve walked the trail for years. Today, 1/8/23, I walked the trail with my 2 young grandsons. A generous man stopped and showed us fossils. The 8 yr old was very interested and wants to volunteer! At minimum we plan to take bags with us and pick up trash.
I would like to volunteer!
welcome to Friends of Copperfield Nature Trails! I have added you to our email list to get notifications or you can check back here as we post event registration links here also. April 15, 2023 event registration link: https://keepaustinbeautiful.givepulse.com/shift/880931?pkey=TWxyU7AAXDHRqf9ul0ht
note we will actually be meeting at the Blakeney pond entrance, doing trash pick up and invasive plant removal.
We met a kind gentleman early December 2022 who told us all about the history of the trail and the volunteer efforts 🙂 Would love to volunteer at the next cleanup! Also our dog Leo says hi!
Welcome to Friends of Copperfield Nature Trails! we have an upcoming event with Keep Austin Beautiful on April 15, 2023.
You have been added to our email list for notifications. Event registration link:
https://keepaustinbeautiful.givepulse.com/shift/880931?pkey=TWxyU7AAXDHRqf9ul0ht
we will be doing trash pick up and invasive plant removal. Meeting at Blakeney pond trail entrance (we are updating the Give Pulse details).