The Arizona Native Plant Society (ANPS)
Website: http://aznps.org/html/activities_volunteer.html
Contact info: Use above link
Description: "The Arizona Native Plant Society is a statewide nonprofit organization devoted to Arizona's native plants. Its purposes are: to broaden knowledge and appreciation of plants and habitats native to Arizona, to work to protect those native plants and habitats, and to encourage landscaping with native plants and other noninvasive plants appropriate to Arizona."

Buffelgrass Removal Volunteer Day
Contact Information: Jennifer Becker, Water Resources Section, 740-6350 or 349-2027.
Description: see click here.

Center for Biological Diversity
Contact Information: Isabel Segovia, Membership Associate, 623-5252 ext. 316.
Description: see http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/swcbd/.

Forever Wild
Website: http://www.theriver.com/Public/foreverwild/body_index.html
Contact info: Darlene; telephone: 574-3579.
Description: "Forever Wild is an Animal Rehabilitation Center based in Tucson, Arizona that deals with wildlife and their needs. Wildlife rehabilitation is the process of caring for injured, orphaned or sick wild animals and releasing them back into the wild when they are able to survive on their own. The director of this center has been licensed by the Arizona Department of Game and Fish and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Such licenses are required by law to rehabilitate any native wild animal (including birds.). Wildlife rehabilitators throughout Tucson also answer thousands of telephone calls from the public about wild animals."

Native Seeds/Search
Contact Info: Diana Peel; telephone: 622-5561 x 310; email: dpeel@nativeseeds.org
Website: http://www.nativeseeds.org/v2/default.php
Description: Native Seeds/SEARCH is a nonprofit conservation organization based in Tucson, Arizona. NS/S works to conserve, distribute and document the adapted and diverse varieties of agricultural seed, their wild relatives and the role these seeds play in cultures of the American Southwestern and northwest Mexico. They are located at 526 North Fourth Avenue, Tucson, AZ.

Nature Conservancy, Tucson Office
Contact Info: Diana Peel, Volunteer Coordinator Tucson Chapter, 547-3437, email: dpeel@tnc.org
Description: Volunteers help with clerical assistance, errand running, GIS assistance, ProCite database assistance, landscape maintenance, and educational outreach.

Pima County Natural Resources, Parks, and Recreation
Contact Info: Call the Environmental Education Volunteer Coordinator at 520-877-6032.
Website: http://www.pima.gov/nrpr/
Description: We have a diverse collection of properties and programs that provide opportunities to develop healthy bodies and minds while protecting many of the region's most significant natural and cultural resources. Often need environmental education volunteers.

SAEMS Adopt-A-Highway
Contact info: Barb Ricca
Email: at mailto:ricca@us.ibm.com
Description: Join us at the next cleanup on Sat. Feb. 11th. We will meet at 8:00 a.m. at the Sonoita exit of I-10. Park in the dirt lot just south of I-10. Our mile of highway is east of the Sonoita exit. After we finish the cleanup about 11:00 a.m., we will have breakfast at Triple T. -- SAEMS is buying. Please be on time, as we will leave the parking area about 8:10 and drive to our cleanup area. If you show up late, nobody will be there. Wear long pants, long sleeves and hard-soled shoes. Safety vests, gloves and litter tongs will be provided.

Sky Island Alliance
Website: http://www.skyislandalliance.org
Contact info: Trevor Hare, Conservation Biologist, Sky Island Alliance, 520 624-7080, email: trevor@skyislandalliance.org.
Description: Sky Island Alliance is an organization dedicated to the preservation and restoration of native biological diversity in the Sky Islands of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico. Volunteers help with weekend-long projects in various outdoor settings. Camping/hiking required.

Southwest Conservation Corps
Website for volunteer opportunities: http://www.sccorps.org/
Contact Info: Leeanne, 520-629-2604, 1735 N 6th Ave., Tucson, AZ 85705.
Description: Southwest Conservation Corps (SCC) is a non-profit employment, job training, and education organization with locations in Durango and Alamosa, Colorado, and Tucson, Arizona.

Tucson Audubon Society
Website for volunteer opportunities: http://www.tucsonaudubon.org/education/banding.htm
Description: Tucson Audubon Society is dedicated to improving the quality of the environment by providing education, conservation, and recreation programs, as well as environmental leadership and information.

Tucson Botanical Garden
Website: http://www.tucsonbotanical.org/index.html
Contact info: 326-9686 ext. 17 or e-mail Education@tucsonbotanical.org.
Description: "Tucked within the heart of the city, Tucson Botanical Gardens is a five-acre collection of 16 specialty gardens including a historical garden, an herb garden, a butterfly garden, a cactus and succulent garden, and much more." Located at 2150 N. Alvernon Way.

Tucson Clean and Beautiful
Website for volunteer opportunities: http://www.ci.tucson.az.us/tcb/tcbuevnt.htm
Contact Info: B.J. Cordova, Director of Development & Community Outreach, at bj.cordova@tucsonaz.gov
Description: Tucson Clean & Beautiful, a nonprofit organization, conducts environmental volunteer programs in waste reduction and recycling, land stewardship, urban forestry, and beautification. Trees for Tucson is a program of Tucson Clean & Beautiful.

Wildlife Rehabilitation Clinic
Contact info: Janet and Lew Miller; telephone: 743 - 0217.
Description: Help care for injured, sick, and orphaned wildlife. The clinic is located just a few miles up Silverbell Road from the West Campus.

Other volunteer opportunities may be posted by Nan Schmidt at http://dtc.pima.edu/~biology/105/extra_credit.html