Lots of opportunities to get volunteer experience coming up!
http://galvbay.org/volunteer.html
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Volunteer News
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Abandoned Crab Trap Removal
February 16, 2013
Ft. Anahuac Park
Volunteers with boats/airboats needed!
GBF's Young Professionals CAST Happy Hour
February 19, 2013
Location - TBA
Trash Bash - Armand Bayou
March 23, 2013
Bay Area Park
Land-based volunteers and paddlers (with your own vessel) needed!
Bay Day Festival
June 1, 2013
Kemah Boardwalk
Environmental exhibits and volunteers needed!
Many companies have volunteer grant programs: monetary grants given to
nonprofits based on employees' volunteer activity. For example, for
every ''X'' hours of time you volunteer with GBF, your company donates
$''Y'' to us. Check with your HR department!
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GBF's Volunteer
Opportunities
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Abandoned Crab Trap Removal - VOLUNTEERS AND BOATS NEEDED!
Please consider joining GBF staff as we work to remove abandoned crab
traps from Trinity Bay. Volunteers with boats will pull crab traps, and
individual volunteers will remain on-shore to disassemble the found
traps.
DATE: Saturday, February 16, 2013
TIME: 8:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
LOCATION: Ft. Anahuac Park boat ramp, Anahuac
We ask that all volunteers sign
up for this event. Feel free to email Julie or call (281) 332-3381
x207 with any questions.
Each year, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) closes crabbing
in all Texas waters for a 10-day period in February--this year from
February 15-24. Any traps left in the water during these ten days are
presumed abandoned and considered litter under state law. During this
time, it is legal to remove any found crab traps and return them to the
designated crab trap disposal receptacles.
'Clean It Like You Mean It' at Trash Bash 2013
Grab your family
and friends, and spend the day cleaning up the Armand Bayou watershed
with GBF! Trash Bash 2013 is Saturday March 23, and we have determined
several cleanup sites along Armand Bayou and its tributaries. There are opportunities
for land-based clean-up at parks and alongside trails and roadways in
the Armand Bayou watershed, as well as opportunities for
kayakers/canoers to collect trash from their personal watercraft.
LOCATION: Bay Area Park,
7500 Bay Area Blvd., Pasadena
SCHEDULE:
Registration & Orientation - 8:00 a.m. -
9:30 a.m.
Watershed Clean-up - 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Lunch & Fun - 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
We ask that all volunteers sign
up for this event. Feel free to email Julie or call (281) 332-3381
x207 with any questions.
Wildlife Workday - Prairie Restoration
 GBF is recruiting volunteers to help
restore coastal prairie. Volunteers are needed to help plant prairie
grasses at a newly created monitoring area, owned and maintained by University
of Houston Coastal Center. Please consider joining us.
DATE: Saturday, February 23, 2013
TIME: 8:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
LOCATION: University of Houston's Coastal Center
We ask that all volunteers sign
up for this event. Feel free to email Julie or call (281) 332-3381
x207 with any questions.
Save-the-Date:
Bay Day 2013
Please "Save the Date" for the Bay Day Festival
on June 1, 2013. GBF is looking for additional education exhibits as well
as volunteers to come out to this bay-related festival at the Kemah
Boardwalk. If you would like to volunteer to join the committee to help
plan the event, volunteer on the day of the event, or know of a potential
exhibitor, please email Julie
or call (281) 332-3381 x207. We ask that all volunteers sign
up for this event.
Stay Tuned!
Marsh Mania dates and sites will be announced in February.
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