The Rindge Conservation Commission is currently accepting volunteers for the Rindge Conservation Corps, a group of active volunteers that assists the commission with its responsibility of maintaining and preserving the town’s natural resources.
The conservation corps is composed of residents, non-residents and students who want to enhance the quality of life in Rindge by focusing on development and/or improvements to conservation areas, hiking trails and other environmental protection or educational activity.
Working with and under the direction of the conservation commission, the conservation corps will help improve town conservation areas.
Corps members may serve to enhance a specific conservation area or for conservation lands in general and are encouraged to recruit others to assist with their conservation area. An example of this would be Tetreault Park or Converse Meadows. Groups of corps members may also be formed to focus on a specific area.
Corps members who focus on a specific area will make recommendations for improvements to that area and will assist in carrying them out with the approval of the conservation commission. Each year the commission will collect recommendations for improvements from corps members and will then prioritize work for the year based on funding and resources.
Some of the responsibilities of the corps will be the following: making improvements to conservation areas; hiking, snowshoe or cross-country ski trails, marking trails and trail openings; running outdoor educational programs such as trail events; running indoor educational programs featuring speakers or films of environmental protection; assisting the commission in town-wide programs; assisting the commission with improvements to conservation areas; assisting with fundraising activities as needed; walking trails in a specific conservation area on a regular basis and reporting to the commission area on conditions; and assisting partner organizations – like the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests or Monadnock Conservancy – with joint efforts to improve Rindge’s natural resources.
To volunteer, a person applies to the Rindge Conservation Commission (forms will be available at the town office or on the town’s conservation commission webpage). Their name will be added to an email list for communication purposes.
The commission’s secretary will maintain lists of corps members and will email them as appropriate. Corps members are welcome to attend Commission meetings.