If you are interested in contributing your time and energy to invasive plant control, there are a variety of ways in which you can get involved and help.

• Set a good example by removing invasive species from your yard. Then encourage your neighbors and friends to do the same.
• Schedule ainvasive plant presentation for your church, 邻里或房主协会, or other community group to learn more about what can be done. (520) 883-3008或发邮件至 皮马县环境教育局.
• ASDM志愿者 if you would like to do office work, research or help with the mapping effort.
• 参加志愿除草活动. Weed pulls are regularly scheduled in a variety of locations and you may join in these efforts throughout the year. 除草计划清单.

如果你不能参与身体拉扯, there is still the opportunity to foment this effort through a monetary donation.

Here at the Desert Museum we want to help you find opportunities to help save our saguaros, while also learning about the Sonoran Desert and having fun while you do it!

原因: Buffelgrass is invasive grass species that has established a strong foothold in the Tucson Basin. 牛膝草和大鳄不能共存. 水牛草在空间上胜过树蛙, 营养和水, 慢慢地从景观中消除树蛙. It also poses a serious fire risk, burning hot and fast. Can you spare a couple of 小时 to save a few saguaros or reduce the risk of catastrophic fire to our community?

怎样去: 如果你对志愿服务感兴趣， 报名做志愿者 and you’ll be taken to a list of action events across the region. If you’d like to host an invasive plant pull in your own neighborhood, 你最喜欢的公园, 或其他地方, 注册网站, and it will be added to our list of sites for 志愿者 to choose from.

**Not all activities listed here are through 亚利桑那-索诺拉网上买球十大正规平台. Each organization registering on this site takes responsibility for their own event.

定期拉船

索诺兰沙漠除草者

The 索诺兰沙漠除草者 were organized in September 2000 by a group of dedicated 志愿者 who recognized the substantial threat of exotic weeds to the Sonoran Desert. As one of the longest running volunteer organizations dedicated to weed removal in Tucson, the 索诺兰沙漠除草者 have cleared thousands of acres of buffelgrass in Tucson Mountain Park. Their continued success is evidenced by the relatively buffelgrass-free slopes and washes within the Tucson Mountains. 志愿者 events occur every second and fourth Wednesday, 每月第三个星期六, 一年到头. 除草者是由皮马县支持的, 亚利桑那-索诺拉网上买球十大正规平台, 以及亚利桑那本土植物协会, all of whom have provided ample resources throughout the years.

星期六活动的平均义工人数:

12-15 during the cooler months, 8-12 during the summer

Average Number of 志愿者s for Wednesday Events:

电场的志愿者

会议时间:

Every 2nd and 4th Wednesday; Every 3rd Saturday
8:00am January-February; November-December
7:00am March-May; September-October
6月6

拉力位置:

图森山公园内的不同地点.
The Wednesday Weedwackers tackle harder to reach areas by hiking farther, 攀爬更高, 工作时间也比星期六的小组长. First time 志愿者 are encouraged to attend a Saturday event to get a feel for the work before coming to the harder Wednesday events.

联系人:

艾莉 Schertz, Invasive Species Program Coordinator, Pima County Natural 资源 Parks & 娱乐,520-724-5246, 艾莉.Schertz@pima.政府

萨瓜罗国家公园

The park began hosting regular group buffelgrass pulls (now called "buffelgrass parties") in October, 2007. Park staff hike new and returning 志愿者 to patches of buffelgrass and provide training and supervision in safely digging up buffelgrass, fountaingrass, 以及其他入侵的草. 活动通常持续4个小时左右. 多年来, 推荐一个买球网站已经清除了离道路最近的地块, so now it usually takes about 30-45 minutes to reach the patches. At least some of the hiking is off-trail, and terrain can be steep and rocky. We have multiple buffelgrass parties each month from October to March, and sometimes in April. 公园提供工具和手套.

Become a "Saguaro Steward" with a more significant commitment:
With experience and training, people can sign up to become Weed Free Trail 志愿者. These 志愿者 hike trails within the park and remove our priority invasive plants, which include invasive grasses as well as some winter annual herbaceous plants. Weed Free Trail 志愿者 work on their own schedule and as often as they want, and they can coordinate with other 志愿者 about which areas have been recently covered or need to be covered.

A brand new volunteer program was officially kicked off in January, 2022. Adopt-an-Area 志愿者 have similar training as Weed Free Trail 志愿者, 同样是独立运作的. 志愿者s work with park staff to select areas to adopt, picking places and terrain of their liking. They work on their own schedule as often as they wish.

Both Weed Free Trail 志愿者 and Adopt-an-Area 志愿者 can recruit friends and family to help them, and the volunteer supervises them to ensure they are killing invasive plants, 而不是本地植物.

联系人:

• sagu_invasive@NPS.政府
• perry_grissom@nps.政府
• 520-733-5179

卡塔利娜州立公园水牛杀手

The Buffel Slayers work to rid Catalina State Park of buffelgrass. They go out once per month September through May, taking a break over the summer. For a list of upcoming events see our buffelgrass pulls calendar. Events run from 8 am to noon, though it’s not necessary to work the entire time. 请与帕蒂·埃斯蒂斯联系 estes.亚利桑那州.edu 了解更多信息.