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If you are interested in volunteering with the Trail Conference, contact the volunteer coordinator either by email, volunteers@nynjtc.org, or phone, 201-512-9348, ext. 26
If you can't find the right volunteer opportunity among these pages...or if you can't decide, then complete our Volunteer Interest Form (printable PDF or Online) and indicate the program areas that interest you most. We will contact you with more information to help match you with the perfect volunteer opportunity!
Current Volunteer Opportunities
- NJ ATV Campaign Assistant:
Assist NJ Regional Representative with grassroots campaign to support passage of ATV legislation (currently passed House Transportation Committee unanimously). Campaign will include a statewide letter to the editor writing push, a concentrated advocacy effort in north Jersey to pass ordinances at the local level, and a series of press conferences in northern and western Jersey highlighting ATV damage in different parks across the area. Goal is to secure passage of legislation before the end of the current legislative session.
Paralegal/Legal Administrator: We seek a volunteer with some legal background who could assist C&A staff with administrative support in the office. Specifically, we have real property tax work and other tasks associated with land acquisition and stewardship, but there are also many other tasks that occur regularly. Ideally, we would like a volunteer who is able to work independently and commit to a regular weekly or biweekly time slot with some flexibility.
- Stewardship Organizer: We seek a volunteer or intern to create and organize “field binders” for properties owned by the Trail Council. This position will require organizing some existing files, extracting the important information for the field binder, and visiting the properties as part of our general stewardship activities. This is a great summer project that will allow you to hike Trail Conference properties along the Shawangunk Ridge Trail and the Long Path.
- Archive Indexer: We seek a volunteer or intern to index our archives. We have approximately 25 boxes of archived files that need to be indexed. Some boxes need to be better organized, but some boxes are ready to be indexed. This is a one-time project with an estimated completion time of about 25 hours.
Conservation & Advocacy
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The Trail Conference is working with land owners and state agencies to protect views such this one seen at Hamilton Point from Castle Point, Minnewaska State Park Preserve, New Paltz. |
© Herb Chong
A crucial piece of our mission
statement is "Protecting hiking trail lands through support and advocacy."
One way we protect hiking trail lands is through active work on open
space protection. We employ a land protection team and have a volunteer
committee charged with finding and prioritizing open space lands that
either connect or extend existing open spaces or occasionally stand alone
pieces.
We work with a number of land trusts and state agencies who generally
provide the bulk of the money for actual purchases. Because we can move
very quickly on potential properties, we frequently provide: money for
surveys, purchase options, pay back taxes and insurance on easements.
Help to lobby local, state and federal officials to protect the rights
of hikers and trail lands. Action alerts posted on this website allow
volunteers to voice their opinions about critical issues being decided
in the legislature. Your letters make a difference.
If you have an interest in assisting with our conservation and advocacy
efforts please let us know by signing up using the Volunteer
Interest Form (PDF) or Online and indicate an interest in Conservation & Advocacy.
This form will allow us to match you with the perfect volunteer
opportunity for you!
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