Visit the 170-acre Crow Canyon in Cortez, Colorado. Nestled between 13,000- foot elevations of the La Plata Mountains, you will live outdoors in a Navajo hogan and dig and explore the ancestral Puebloan culture of the Mesa Verde region. Crow Canyon is a nationally recognized research center that has educated thousands of students. Hundreds visit each year. According to the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, "During a typical field season, more than 75,000 artifacts and samples come into the lab.
Crow Canyon Archaeological Center
23390 Road K
Cortez, CO 81321
800-422-8985
crowcanyon.org
Travel with Amizade Global Service's Learning and Volunteer Programs to feed the homeless in Washington, DC. You will work through Georgetown Ministry Center (GMC), a non-profit that works with the city's homeless population. They provide shelter and other services to DC's most at-risk residents. First, learn about GMC's mission through an orientation that will prepare you to assist in Street Outreach with their staff members. You will make sandwiches at GMC, then work with the staff to deliver them and interact with the homeless on Georgetown's streets. You will experience the uniquely close relationships that GMC staff and volunteers have developed with the population they serve.
Georgetown Ministry Center
1041 Wisconsin Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20007
202-338-8301
georgetownministrycenter.org
Join with the Caretta Research Program to help at-risk loggerhead turtles at the 10,053-acre Wassaw National Reserve on a barrier island off of Savannah, Georgia. Loggerheads mostly nest off of the southeast United States. Through the years, the number of loggerhead clutches has grown from 50 to 60 to about 120, according to the Caretta Research Project.
Six volunteers stay at the reserve each week to tag and measure female turtles as they come ashore to lay their eggs. The volunteers also move the eggs if they are laid too close to the tide line and protect the egg clutches from feral hogs, raccoons and other predators. Volunteer travelers work in cooperation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services in Savannah, Georgia and the Wassaw Island Trust. Since loggerheads lay their eggs at night, a volunteer's work day is from nightfall to five in the morning.
Caretta Research Project
P.O. Box 9841
Savannah, GA 31412-0041
912-447-8655
carettaresearchproject.org
There are a number of lighthouses around the United States where you can be a volunteer lighthouse keeper. In the Wisconsin area, you can travel to the lighthouses on Devil's Island, Sand Island and Michigan Island. You must commit to a three-week stay and bring your own food and supplies. Your duties will be to lead tours, mow the lawn, do light maintenance and serve as an emergency contact.
Park Superintendent
Apostle Island National Lakeshore
415 Washington Avenue
Bayfield, WI 54814
715-779-3397
nps.gov
