Natural Area Preservation (NAP) works to protect and restore Ann Arbor’s natural areas and foster an environmental ethic among its citizens. This involves conducting plant and animal inventories, ecological monitoring, and a variety of stewardship projects in Ann Arbor parks. These tasks are performed by both staff and volunteers. One third of NAP’s field work is done by volunteers, so community involvement is vital to the success of our conservation efforts. NAP projects take volunteers well beyond the realm of litter clean-up into broader areas of concern, such as maintaining biodiversity and restoring damaged ecosystems. Through the combination of hands-on involvement and scientific understanding, we hope to encourage and support a connection between individual volunteers and their surrounding natural environment. By sharing this experience with friends and neighbors, volunteers also play an important role in fostering an environmental ethic in the community.
To learn more, check out the Natural Area Preservation Factsheet (pdf).
Stay in touch with NAP news and events:
Want to learn more about volunteer opportunities? Interested in receiving our free quarterly newsletter with the latest calendar of events? Please call (734) 996-3266 to speak with our Outreach Coordinators or to listen to our 24-hour stewardship events “hotline.” Or, feel free to email us at nap@a2gov.org.
If you would like to receive email notification when our latest newsletter is available on our website, simply send an email to majordomo@great-lakes.net with "subscribe nap-events" (minus the quotes) as the only text in the body of the message. No subject line is required. Do not include a signature in the body of the message. You should receive an email confirming your subscription and welcoming you to nap-events shortly. Or, just let us know and we'll sign you up! If you prefer a hard copy of our newsletter, let us know and we'll add you to our maling list.
Current volunteer opportunities:
Check out our Spring 2008 Volunteer Stewardship Calendar for upcoming events and trainings! You can choose either a pdf or html version of the calendar. The html version includes links to maps of event locations.
For more details on all the exciting ways you can volunteer with NAP, check out our Volunteer page.
Current NAP Newsletter:
Spring 2008 Newsletter (pdf)