Get Involved: Boulder County Parks & Open Space

Volunteers will lead fun educational programs at the recently restored Altona Schoolhouse at Heil Valley Ranch.

Volunteers will:

• Present one room school field trips for pre-requested group visits. Teachers will choose from a pioneer school experience or mining program.
• Present artifact trunks for pre-requested group visits.
• Research, develop, and present future field trip or public program activities.
• Research and lead period-appropriate crafts, games, and possibly songs.

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Assay Office Museum

Do you love sharing stories, talking with people, and have a passion for history? Volunteers are needed to help visitors explore and learn about mining history at the James F. Bailey Assay Office Museum.

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Do you love sharing stories, talking with people, and have a passion for history? Volunteers are needed to help visitors explore and learn about mining history at the Nederland Mining Museum.

Duties include:

• Welcome and orient visitors to the site.
• Interpret objects and mining history.
• Answer visitor questions regarding the museum collection and local history.
• Provide information about the area and nearby open spaces.
• Lead educational programs for organized groups, such as schools, senior centers, and interest groups.

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Share the history of Boulder County at events hosted by Parks & Open Space. Visitors love to talk to volunteers and learn about what life was like on a working ranch in the late 1800s.

Volunteers dress in period costume to demonstrate daily chores of a working western ranch for school programs and special events at the Walker Ranch Homestead. Training and costumes are provided.

Some of the activities you could demonstrate are cooking on a wood-burning stove, churning butter, making roof shingles, assisting the blacksmith, doing laundry the old-fashioned way, and historical games.

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Do you want to help enhance habitat and clean up the trails, while getting your hands dirty?  

Weed Warriors is an exciting new program utilizing entirely mechanical control methods to control invasive weeds at  Walker Ranch. We need your help to spread the word and stop the spread of invasive weeds!

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