Bureau of Land Management Volunteer Feature

Sierra Club Service

The Sierra Club refers to these types of volunteer projects as "service" projects. Participants, primarily Sierra Club members, pay over $500 each for the privilege of providing their time and labor toward the completion of a specified project--in this case, hand digging weeds. Some of this years' participants had never taken a Sierra Club Service trip before while others had taken two or three each year. The BLM's Montrose District considers this partnership with the Sierra Club a great opportunity and an ideal way to match eager, dedicated volunteers to a job that would otherwise go undone. Considering the resource values at stake, weed control in these valuable river corridors is very important. However, because of the extensive labor required, hand digging is an expensive measure that is very dependent on volunteers. This project compliments other integrated weed management approaches being used by Colorado BLM along these river corridors such as chemical spraying and biological control.

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