Nature Based Organizations

Cakes at the Lake Volunteers assist at our popular pancake breakfast and nature presentation program. Volunteers can choose the task that they prefer including assisting in the kitchen, directing parking, setting up the Rec Hall for the presentation, or greeting visitors. 3-4 hour shift. You can choose to help at just one or at all three events.

Turtle Care Assistant - Volunteers will assist with feeding, record keeping, and cleaning the tank for our educational snapping turtle - Snappy. Training and support will be provided to ensure that no injuries or accidents happen when working with a snapping turtle. Ongoing year-round, but you may choose the length and frequency of your service. 1 hour per time, 1-3 times per week. You can choose the duration and frequency of your service. Hunt Hill staff and volunteers will fill in the additional dates to ensure that Snappy receives proper care year-round.

This person would be contacted every time we have an event to see if they are willing to take photos.

Hunt Hill Nature Center is seeking volunteer School Field Trip Environmental Educators (EEs). EEs would lead one hands-on activity with elementary aged students during their field trip, usually rotating through four groups of students. The activities are pre-written and EEs are provided with orientation prior to the field trip season to learn how to lead the activities. Volunteers can choose how frequently they volunteer. There are opportunities each weekday during the month of May. Most field trips are 5 or fewer hours long.

Bat Roost Counters sit near the locations of our bat houses beside the Barn at Hunt Hill at dusk. They count the bats as they emerge, providing use with data about how many bats are using the bat houses at different times throughout the summer. Bat Roost Counters do not come in contact with bats. 1 hour per count. You chose the frequency. The more frequent the counts, the better data we have. We aim for a minimum of two counts per summer on the pre-volancy and post-volancy count weekends, but we would like more if possible. No prior experience necessary. We can provide the training to get you started. Priority on the prevolancy weekend (June 5-7) and the post-volancy weekend (July 10-12)

Bluebird Nest Watch Volunteers will check the bluebird nestboxes in the restored prairie one to two times per week to keep track of the number and types of nests, eggs, and young that are raised in the nestboxes through the summer. 1-2 hours, 1-2 times per week. Volunteers do not need to be bird experts. You will be provided with enough training and resources to confidently identify the bird species using the nestboxes.

Youth summer day camps have been a long-standing tradition at Hunt Hill! Our day camps typically feature environmental-themed learning activities, games, swimming, and crafts in small, age-appropriate groups. Camps are interactive and led by a team of trained and enthusiastic educators. Day camps are Monday through Thursday from 9:00am to 4:00pm, with camper drop-off starting at 8:30am.

Join Hunt Hill in learning about the types of bats that live in the area and ways that citizen scientists can monitor them. Once the sun goes down, we will count the bats that emerge from the bat houses around camp and maybe try some acoustic monitoring.

Although we’d like to spend more time walking on the trails, sometimes we’re stuck in the office doing paperwork. We’re looking for volunteers who would adopt our trails and try to walk them once a month or so, carrying along loppers for those unruly prickly shrubs, and letting us know if there are fallen trees that need removal. We have several trails of various lengths waiting for you to adopt!

Explore creative inspiration from nature in this hands-on, two-day art workshop featuring land art, printmaking, nature photography, and so much more. Open to all and eligible for WI Master Naturalist continuing education, this workshop encourages creative exploration using natural materials from the Hunt Hill landscape.

Explore creative inspiration from nature in this hands-on, two-day art workshop featuring land art, printmaking, nature photography, and so much more. Open to all and eligible for WI Master Naturalist continuing education, this workshop encourages creative exploration using natural materials from the Hunt Hill landscape.