Shenandoah Valley Stewards - Volunteer Interest Survey
Are you someone who loves the outdoors? Trying to see more of the Shenandoah Valley? Are you interested in learning about the realities of conservation work? Valley Conservation Council (VCC) is non-profit land trust that is looking for interested volunteers for 2023 to join our Land Protection Specialist on the annual surveying visits of the conservation easements we hold! You will be provided with training on how conservation easements and land trusts work and how we protect private lands in Virginia. You will serve as an extra set of eyes to help survey the easements we hold, all while lending your unique perspective to both landowners and VCC. This is also an opportunity to visit privately owned and protected land throughout the Shenandoah Valley.

Since VCC follows the standards of the National Land Trust Alliance (LTA), we conduct annual visits of all our easements each calendar year. These annual visits ensure that VCC is upholding our commitment as a land trust and that the conservation values of the properties we hold easements on continue to stay protected. This process involves traveling throughout our 11 county service region within the Shenandoah Valley from Frederick County down to Botetourt County. This often includes extended time outdoors in variable environments and weather conditions.
Please help us gauge general interest by filling out the survey below. We will contact you with a more concrete position description and more details in the coming months! We appreciate your time and responses and will use them to help shape our future monitoring schedule.

To join annual monitoring visits, volunteers will need to have availability Mon - Fri between 8am - 4pm.

If you have any questions about this survey, please contact Lily Bose at lily@valleyconservation.org.
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How did you access this survey or hear about it?
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Are you a student?
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Do you have any current areas of interests or are interested in learning more about a specific topic related to conservation? Do you have any skills, abilities, or experience relevant to this position? This question will not be used to select volunteers, but to give us a better idea of your interests!
Examples: I am interested in learning more about working in the field of conservation, I have knowledge on regional bird/plant identification, I worked a past job that was in the environmental field, etc
Are you interested in ever potentially volunteering at our office located in Staunton, VA?
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VCC works in 11 counties throughout the Shenandoah Valley. Which counties would you be interested in traveling to and volunteering in?
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How long of a commitment  do you feel you would like to make to volunteering? This is not a binding commitment but will help VCC with the planning of our program
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When are you available to volunteer? A general idea is fine to give. Examples would be if you can only volunteer weekdays/weekends, times of the day you may be available, or times of the year you are more able to volunteer (spring/fall semester, summers only, etc)
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There is often a lot of driving that must be done to visit our easements. How much time are you willing to spend driving your own vehicle to easement monitoring locations?
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Do you have your own reliable form of transportation?
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Monitoring easements often occurs in a variety of temperatures and conditions. Which seasons are you comfortable being in the outdoors for extended periods of time?
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Monitoring of easements can take an average of 1-4 hours but can potentially be much longer or shorter depending on the acreage and topography of an easement. What is the maximum amount of time you would be willing to spend at a given visit (not including driving)? *
Often stewardship requires traversing difficult terrain with no trail and sometimes climbing fences and crossing streams. How comfortable are you with this?
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I am comfrotable only on flat terrain
I am able and willing to traverse terrain that is difficult and may have no trails
VCC conducts around 40 in-person individual easements visits per year ranging from Frederick County down to Botetourt County. How many times a year would you like to volunteer and join these stewardship visits?
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Is there anything else you would like us to know or are particularly interested in doing with VCC?
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