Ways to Get Involved

Whether you want to further conservation, learn more about nature or share your love of the outdoors, you’ve come to the right place. National Wildlife Refuges provide many opportunities for you to help your community and fish and wildlife by doing what you love.

National Wildlife Refuges partner with volunteers, youth groups, landowners, neighbors, and residents of urban and coastal communities to make a lasting difference.

Find out how you can help make American lands healthier and communities stronger while doing something personally satisfying.

  • Volunteers: Gain new experiences and meet new people while helping to advance wildlife conservation.
  • Landowners: Learn how you can partner with the Fish and Wildlife Service to voluntarily restore land.
  • Friends: Join neighbors in helping refuges restore habitat and expand access to green space.
  • Local Groups: Find out how communities can work with refuges better for wildlife and people.
  • Youth: Explore internships to learn and develop conservation and leadership skills.

Volunteering

Single project volunteers are welcome to help with projects such as transplanting cottonwood saplings and working on bluebird boxes. You can contact the Visitor Center staff regarding volunteer opportunities and conservation projects by calling 970-365-3613 or emailing brownspark@fws.gov. 

Our Partners

Nature does not recognize human-made boundaries. In order to conserve our natural and cultural resources effectively, we must work with others to bridge these boundaries. Partnerships foster creative solutions to challenging situations and often the results are greater than the sum of the parts.

Education Programs

Browns Park is busiest during the field season which lasts from April to November each year. This is the time when most of the on-the-ground conservation and habitat management work are done and when staff most need additional help from interns who are interested in working in conservation. Over the past several years, the Refuge has collaborated with the Student Conservation Association, American Conservation Experience, and Youth Conservation Corps to hire seasonal interns and crews. Interns learn about Browns Park National Wildlife Refuge, its mission for wildlife and public use, and how the Refuge operates to fulfill its goals. They also learn about plant communities, how plants affect the ecosystem and wildlife occurring within it, and how to best manage the habitats occurring within the Refuge.