• Each year the Glacier National Park Fund helps plan and organize the annual Spring for Glacier event. Spring for Glacier is hosted by the four park partners - Glacier Association, Glacier Park Associates, Glacier Institute and GNPF - in the park each year in late May. The assistance of volunteers at this event is instrumental to its success.
View pictures of the most recent Spring for Glacier gala

• We also find the assistance of volunteers invaluable in other areas of our day-to-day operations from helping in the office with filing, scrap booking, mailings and correspondence to serving on special committees and assisting us with specialized services such as marketing, PR, design and layout and proposal writing.

• In the summer of 2011, we will again sponsor several volunteer trail crew work days in the Park. This is a great way to give back to Glacier, meet new people, enjoy the great outdoors and be of valuable assistance to the Park. If you would like to do some trail crew work this summer, contact us.
View the volunteer trail crew teams from this past summer

• Volunteer for the High Country Citizen Science Program. Volunteers have helped Glacier National Park resource managers build baseline information about the status of flora and fauna to study population changes. In a multi-year study funded by GNPF, Glacier National Park is focusing on mountain goats, loons, pikas and Clark’s Nutcrackers to detect changes that may occur on these "canaries" of global warming.  

For more information about this interesting field work in the park, go to http://www.nps.gov/glac/naturescience/ccrlc-citizen-science.htm.

To volunteer for this data collection work, e-mail glac_citizen_science@nps.gov.

• You can also help out in the Native Plant Nursery every Tuesday starting in June. From June through August, GNP invites you to drop in at the native plant nursery each Tuesday to assist with plant maintenance and nursery chores. You are free to come and go whenever you choose. This is another great way to meet new people, enjoy the great outdoors and be of valuable assistance to the Park. For more details

Our volunteers’ annual time commitment ranges from helping with one event to those who dedicate time on a weekly or monthly basis throughout the year. For more information about any one of these volunteer opportunities or just to learn more about how you can help, please e-mail Merry Lynn.