Volunteer

Snowy Plover Docent | Habitat Restoration | Tour Leader

Snowy Plover Docent Program

The Snowy Plover Docent Program was created to help decrease disturbance by educating beach visitors about the snowy plovers and their limited habitat. From Docents, visitors learn ways to preserve Sands beach as a safe and healthy place for roosting and nesting to continue. Among Docents, there is a shared goal of maintaining beach access and recreation for visitors while maintaining the preservation and protection of habitat for the snowy plovers and other native fauna. The success of the Snowy Plover Docent Program is a result of the commitment from our community to increase public awareness and protect adult snowy plovers and their eggs and chicks from predators and disturbances.

Remaining 2009 Training dates are October 3rd and , November 7th.

Snowy Plover Docent Program at COPR

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Habitat Restoration

Contact Tara Longwell to reserve the workday for your group longwell@lifesci.ucsb.edu.

Upcoming workdays for volunteers are the following saturdays 9:00 AM-12 noon

So if you are a big group let us know when you would like to come as soon as you know and also let us know how many people will come.

Habitat Restoration at COPR

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Become a Tour Leader at Coal Oil Point Reserve!

Do you enjoy learning and teaching others about the historical and natural wonders of Santa Barbara?  Then you might consider becoming a Tour Leader!

The tour is a two hour walk through the Coal Oil Point Reserve's eight ecosystems: from sandy beach to the Devereux Slough to a restored coastal dune system.  You will learn and teach others about the Reserve's cultural and geologic history and its current restoration projects.  When you are a Tour Leader you will be able to identify rare and endangered species-such as White Tailed Kite, Western Snowy Plover, Ventura Marsh Milkvetch, and the Wandering Skipper butterfly-that make their home at the Reserve.

Tour Leaders partake in a series of eight training sessions to learn about the history and ecology of Coal Oil Point Reserve.  Thereafter, Tour Leaders must give at least one two-hour tour per month and attend a monthly 1-2 hour lecture.

Potential benefits and opportunities of becoming a Tour Leader are: to expand your and the public’s ecological and historical knowledge of the area; to participate in a local environmental and educational movement; and to gain excellent community service or internship hours for schooling or occupation.

To become a Tour Leader, please contact the Program Coordinator at (805) 893-5092 or email coprstaff@lifesci.ucsb.edu