Volunteer

As a volunteer, you can help us keep the sanctuary habitat in great shape for our flora and fauna. We need your help in removing invasive plants, maintaining our trails, picking trash from our shoreline, and keeping the sanctuary safe and beautiful for both visitors and wildlife.

How you can help

While Volunteer Workdays are scheduled periodically (click here for our calendar of events), we always appreciate anyone willing to donate their time to clean up the sanctuary! Contact our curator using the form to the right or stop by the nature center when staff are present and ask how you can help.

Want to clean up litter while walking the trails or beach? Grab a bucket located by the garage at the trailhead any day. We appreciate the extra hands in keeping our sanctuary beautiful!

On Volunteer Workdays, bring a water bottle, and dress for the season. We suggest wearing long pants, long-sleeved shirt, and sturdy footwear. We’ll supply the tools and cotton work gloves.

Thank you!

About The Edith G. Read Sanctuary

The Edith G. Read Wildlife Sanctuary is a 179-acre wildlife sanctuary adjacent to Rye Playland, in Rye, NY. The sanctuary features a shoreline on Long Island Sound, Manursing Lake, salt-marsh wetland, trails through a deciduous forest, a bamboo grove, and fields of native grasses and wildflowers. The National Audubon Society has acknowledged the sanctuary as an Important Bird Area. The sanctuary’s nature center building has nature exhibits and a bird viewing window, and a setting for educational programs. Learn more about the history of the Sanctuary

Volunteer Sign-up Form