Trail, Grounds and Facilities Crew

Do you carry your clippers or your machete with you on hikes, trimming blackberry branches as you go? Do you like the idea of giving native plants some breathing room in the forest, saving them from alien invasives? Would you like to see our trails identified with better signage? Or are you manic about weeds? Do you love landscaping and flowers, all the traditional Koke'e garden plants? Are you excited about the interpretive potential of an ethnobotanical garden? Or are you a great handyman, know some carpentry, enjoy sprucing up old country buildings?

In any of these cases, we need you! We're trying to:

1. Landscape and maintain the grounds for the Museum and the Souza Center buildings.
2. Maintain "The Nature Trail" behind the Museum as a great interpretive walk.
3. Renovate the old CCC Camp buildings as the Joseph M. Souza, Jr. Resource Center and Field Station, Kauai's first and only forest research center.
4. Work with State Parks in general for trail maintenance.

Requirements

Interpretive Training Course, additional training on plant handling, Hawaiian botany, trail clearing techniques, not afraid of getting your hands dirty!

Commitment

Two days per month and as you are able - we'll never run out of work! Special workdays will be scheduled, but this position is also great for the lone-worker who can tackle special projects or garden regularly on their own.

Creativity Opportunities

 Help us make trail design and signage decisions, landscape the Souza Center with Koke'e plants that tell a story and reinforce park interpretation, give historic buildings new life where history can continue to be written! Perks

 The satisfaction of seeing lasting results for your efforts! Put a smile on an old building! Reopen trails for all to enjoy! Plus all regular volunteer discount privileges.

To volunteer call 808/335-9975 or E-mail Facilities Volunteer