- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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3 people are interested
Community Builder
ORGANIZATION: Lake Ripley Management District
Please visit the new page to apply.
- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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3 people are interested
Do you love animals? Plants? Families?
Whether you are introverted or extroverted, a science-nerd or a life-of-the-party, the District has a place for you in building our organization's capacity to connect people with the plants and animals that live in and around our lake and 200-acre prairie and woodland preserve.
We need people to welcome newcomers, or simply to update our database with newcomers' addresses. We need people who like to sit quietly in an office and volunteer, and those that like to write, draw, research, take photos, pick up litter, and set up events. Your work is the invisible kind that allows us to protect the threatened Blanding"s Turtle, and put the community in our preserved community forest.
More opportunities with Lake Ripley Management District
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About Lake Ripley Management District
Location:
N4450 County Road A, Cambridge, WI 53523, US
Mission Statement
The Lake Ripley Management District seeks to preserve and enhance Lake Ripley's water quality, its fish and wildlife communities, and its overall ecological health, while ensuring public access and use of the lake that is safe, fair and practical.
Description
Scenic shorelines, good fishing, abundant wildlife and clean water are a part of our culture that we work to maintain. Since 1990, when a group of citizens got together and realized that the lake they loved, like other ecosystems, needed stewardship or might lose its ability to house the beautiful plants and animals that it did. Once the plant life degraded, the lake might succumb to harmful levels of bacteria and algae, which would mean swimming, fishing and boating would also be impaired. Instead of despair, hope happened, when people got together and started the Lake Ripley Management District. We do not regulate or enforce rules; instead we use education and help to keep landowners up-to-date on best management practices. But community conservation works best when it is a true community effort. There is only one staff-member at the Lake District, and that means many opportunities for education and outreach pass us by. We need buy-in from the community and those that love lakes, wetlands, and the animals and plants within them to help us do even better work.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
N4450 County Road ACambridgeCambridge, WI 53523
DATE POSTED
November 7, 2019
SKILLS
- Habitat Restoration
- Environmental Education
- Photography
- Data Entry
- Botany
- STEM
GOOD FOR
- People 55+
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
- Orientation or Training
- 2-4 hours per week