Earth Day: Teller Wildlife Refuge Needs Volunteers

Earth Day is Saturday, April 19 and the place to be is the Teller Wildlife Refuge in Corvallis, Montana. Teller needs volunteers for riparian planting, building willow exclosures, fence removal, wetland planting, houndstongue pulling and outdoor clean-up at the Quast House.

You must sign-up by Wednesday, April 16 to be included for lunch provided by Teller.

Volunteers Sign-in: 8:00 a.m. at The Teller Slack Barn

Projects: 8:15 to 11:30

Volunteer Lunch: 12:00

Teller 20th Aniversery Celebration: 1:00

What to Bring

Volunteers should wear shoes, clothing, work gloves, and gear suitable for outdoor work.

There will be coffee, muffins and fruit available in the morning for everyone when you sign in.

Volunteers should bring the following:

• Beverage container. Coffe and tea will be provided.
• Enough water/beverage to get you through to lunch
• Any snacks you might want to get you through to lunch
• Extra clothing layers and/or rain gear, depending on the weather

Stewardship Projects:

Riparian Planting: Planting 500 plants in riparian exclosure

Leader: Amy Sacre and Paul Rosenberg

Number volunteers: 30

Volunteers should bring work gloves. Planting tools will be provided.

Wetland Planting

Planting carex and bulrush plugs at new wetland site.

Leader: Sam Lawry

Number of volunteers: 10

Teller Provide: 10 shovels

Volunteers will need rubber knee/hip boots, gloves/gear that can get wet and muddy. We have tall waders, if you do not have rubber boots.

Willow Exclosure Work

Enlarging fenced area around willows; removing wire from exclosures not needed; remove chicken wire by Spring Creek, pull any additional blue browse protectors.

Leader: Steve Powell

Number of volunteers: 5

Bring: work gloves, and if you have the following, they will be handy: fence pliers, heavy wire cutters, bucket to hold tools and fence brackets—please label any tools you bring with your name.

Fence Removal

Leader: Nader Shooshtari

Number of Volunteers: 8

Tools Needed: Bring work gloves and fencing tools, such as fencing pliers, wire cutters, anything that will help wrestle old fencing from posts and out of the places it gets stuck, bucket for tools and nails.

Houndstongue Bagging/Digging

Leader: Lindsey Bona, from Ravalli County Weed District

Bagging seedheads and digging rosettes within the riparian exclosure

Teller supply: 2 shovels, bags for bagging seedheads

Number of Volunteers: 5

Please wear slick, non-fleece clothing—houndstongue seeds are like velcro and stick to you!

Tools: Work gloves

Quast Yard Cleanup

Lead Volunteer: Dave Vietz

Number of Volunteers: 10-20

Teller has rakes, shovels, pruning sheers and wheelbarrows. Volunteers can bring additional if they want to. Please label any tools you bring.

General Cleanup: Chaffin and Quast Lanes

3-6 volunteers needed.

Teller will provide garbage bags.

Volunteers bring gloves.

To volunteer contact: Lauren Ghiloni

Administrative Assistant

The Teller
PO Box 548
Corvallis, MT 59828

(406) 961-3507

lauren@tellerwildlife.org

www.tellerwildlife.org