Below are details on all the ways you can volunteer with BEAT. Please Note : Our volunteer policy for minors is that everyone under 18 must have their guardian sign a waiver, and an adult must accompany anyone under Get your exercise and help eradicate this destructive invasive at the same time! Gloves and tools will be provided, but we encourage you to bring extra tools if you have them loppers, pruning shears, and pruning saws.
Hardy Kiwi is an exotic invasive ornamental that threatens forests in western Massachusetts through complete domination of mature trees. Once it germinates, it will climb surrounding vegetation and eventually kill support. Join us in surveying and sampling outfall pipes flowing directly into the Housatonic River around central and north Berkshire County.
These volunteer opportunities are only available from April through October. Contact : team thebeatnews. Remember how much fun it was when you were a kid, jumping into streams and rivers and playing in the mud? River cleanups are an opportunity to do that again! There are plenty of ways to help without getting your feet wet, too.
Check our event calendar for River Cleanup dates. For more information and to get our River Cleanup emails, contact team thebeatnews. Want to help salamanders and frogs safely move across roadways to their breeding habitats? Join us for one of our amphibian crossings during spring migration!
On the first warm, rainy nights of spring, thousands of amphibians โ wood frogs, spotted salamanders, Jefferson salamanders, spring peepers โ leave their overwintering upland forest habitat and make their way to vernal pools in the evening to breed.
