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Get Involved at Green Mountain ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Center

Join us to help steward the lands of the ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Center!

Support Green Mountain ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Center

Explore the many ways you can get involved at Green Mountain ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Center including volunteering to help maintain trails, becoming a community scientist, or adopting a maple tree in our Bird-Friendly Sugarbush. We offer a range of opportunities to connect with our center and make a meaningful impact.

To get started as a volunteer, email Meghan Lee-Hall.

Trail Maintenance

We always appreciate volunteer help maintaining our beautiful trails where people connect with nature. We welcome individuals, clubs, families, school groups, and work-place groups of all experience levels!

Do you have a favorite trail at the ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Center? Consider adopting it! Our Adopt-A-Trail volunteers select one of our trails and commit to three seasons (spring, summer, and fall) of conducting trail inspections and workdays.

Community Science

Community scientists are essential in ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ's efforts to protect birds and their habitats in Vermont. Help us collect important scientific data about the birds, other wildlife, and plants found at Green Mountain ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Center.  

 Every month, we walk the trails of the Green Mountain ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Center and record counts of the birds we see or hear in eBird. This long-term dataset helps us better understand the population health of the Center’s resident and migratory birds. The walks are open to the public and are a great opportunity to build your experience using binoculars and listening to bird song.  Check out our events calendar for upcoming dates

Gathering data on seasonal variations at the Green Mountain ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Center allows us to better understand the impact of climate change on the plants and habitats that birds rely on. Volunteers sign up to visit the Center weekly, walk a mapped route, and record observations of the seasonal and life cycle events of twelve native plant species.

is a community science project is designed to help scientists better understand the timing and availability of caterpillars and other arthropods. Nesting birds depend on arthropods for food, and climate change driven shifts can cause misalignment of bird migration and arthropod abundance. Volunteers at the Green Mountain ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Center take part in weekly arthropod surveys from late spring through summer. 

Adopt-A-Maple
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Support Green Mountain ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Center’s Bird-Friendly Maple Sugaring and nature education programs by adopting a maple tree in our sugarbush! For $100 your name will be printed on maple leaf cards displayed at our sugarhouse and on a sap bucket for this year’s sugaring season (March and April). You will also receive a pint of our delicious maple syrup and a coupon for one sugar on snow treat at our Sugar on Snow Parties.

Use code ADOPTMAPLE26 for free shipping! 

Your Sugar on Snow coupon will be e-mailed to you in March before our Sugar on Snow events. Your maple leaf name card and pint of maple syrup will be shipped to you at the end of sugaring season. You will receive a receipt for your tax-deductible donation of $80.  

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