Voyageurs National Park Volunteer Rendezvous

Due to chronically underfunded budgets, it is often difficult for Voyageurs National Park to complete all of the conservation and maintenance work that keeps the Park a great place to visit. Voyageurs National Park Association organizes the Volunteer Rendezvous to help the Park meet its needs and engage community volunteers in caring for the Park.

Past events have provided upkeep and preventive maintenance for the Park’s trails, but recently, based on the Park’s needs, we shifted the focus of the Rendezvous on habitat restoration. Volunteers plant native trees and remove non-native vegetation to restore disturbed sites in the Park to their natural state. Native planting enhances the beauty of Park shorelines, improves wildlife habitat, discourages invasive species, and helps the Park receive federal funding for future restoration projects. We planted 350 trees and dug up 700 pounds of non-native plants at last year’s Rendezvous, and we want to do even more this year.

VNPA is hosting a Fall 2009 Volunteer Rendezvous habitat restoration event. Join us! Just email vnpa@voyageurs.org and we’ll keep you in the loop. View photos of past events to check out the work we accomplished.