Volunteer Opportunities
Safe Harbor Environmental offers year round opportunities for volunteering on coastal restoration projects.
Our goals
Our Volunteer Program fulfills three of our Core Values:
It enables us to continue fulfilling our commitment to involve local communities in the protection of their own coastal resources
It provides an opportunity to advance restoration efforts in financially restricted areas
It creates an opportunity to provide environmental education.
Student Volunteers from Four Rivers Charter School in Greenfield, MA
Student volunteers from Monomoy Regional High School helped us plant native Beach grass on ocean side dune restoration site.
who can volunteer?
The Safe Harbor Volunteer Program is open to individuals of all age groups, backgrounds and educational experience.
We welcome student groups, community groups and individual volunteers. Volunteers should be available for a two and a half hour work period.
Volunteer Coordinator Jaimie
VOlunteer with us
Contact Jaimie, our Safe Harbor Volunteer Coordinator at:
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Director Gordon Peabody with volunteers
Important information for volunteers
The work is weather sensitive and volunteers are expected to be properly dressed for the coastal environment.
Volunteers should bring:
appropriate clothing for fieldwork
a notebook
communication skills
the desire to gain more education in resource area ecology
Ballston Beach Community Planting
These volunteers were from Friends of the Cape Cod National Seashore and Truro Non Resident Taxpayer groups. Giving these local residents an opportunity to experience stewardship of their natural resources.
Projects
Projects are located around the Cape Cod coastline. We try to schedule volunteer work a week or more ahead of time but scheduling may change due to weather conditions.
Check out a local newspaper article on the volunteer project on Ballston Beach (left) where volunteers planted American Beach Grass, completing one of our barrier dune restoration projects.
Truro community volunteers cleaning up storm damaged materials from a section of salt marsh. Tidal eddies were scouring away native marsh vegetation for twenty years before volunteers removed debris and improved the habitat.
Truro community volunteers cleaning up storm damaged materials from a section of salt marsh. The removed wood was recycled locally as firewood. This taught volunteers the value of community partnerships with natural resources by working with local conservation commission and nearby property owners.
Ocean side Restoration Project Truro, MA
Every volunteer project incorporates environmental education. Honors Biology Students from Harwich High School getting field orientation before beginning work on an ocean dune restoration project.
On the right, director Gordon Peabody and Audra, our volunteer coordinator at the time give instructions to volunteers.
Head of the Meadow Beach, Truro
Safe Harbor Student Mentor Fiona, works in 25 knots onshore winds to complete seasonal removal of our biomimicry sand collection system before shorebird nesting season, with student volunteers from a Falmouth Church Group.
These volunteers are reducing restoration project costs on a community beach by removing biomimicry at the end of a winter storm season.