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Volunteer Application Rare Care Supplement Form

Supplement - Rare Care Additional Information

You indicated one or more positions with the Rare Care program in your preferences. These positions require some additional information. Please fill out this form with your availability, field experience, travel interests, and how you learned about Rare Care, then click Continue to Next Page.

AVAILABILITY:
How Many Days per Month or Season Are You Available?

PLANT ID AND DATA COLLECTION
Rare plant monitoring and seed collecting require a high degree of certainty in identifying species (sometimes distinguishing between two very similar species) and comfort with collecting and reporting scientific data. Describe your experience and training in identifying native plants and data collection. Please be specific.

FIELD EXPERIENCE (required)
Monitoring often requires working in wilderness areas away from roads. Describe your experience and skills in orienteering, GPS use, map reading, and wilderness travel.

TRAVEL (required)
What distance are you willing to travel and/or what part of the state are you interested in?

HOW DID YOU LEARN about this volunteer opportunity?

PLEASE NOTE: Site visits are expected to take a full day and multiple visits may be necessary. Initial research on the plant and site may take several hours. Training is expected to take one full day each for both plant monitoring and seed collecting.

Thank you for your interest in the Rare Care program. You will be notified of the date and location of our next training session if accepted into Rare Care's Rare Plant Monitoring and Seed Collecting Program.