Upcoming Volunteer Events
Looking for a Way to Get Involved in Freshwater Stewardship?
Here are a few ways you can help!
- Event support: Join the fun and help out at evening or weekend events throughout the year.
- Photography/videography: Share your talent with natural landscape or event photography or capturing moments from our programs on video.
- Regional tree plantings: Plant trees, recruit other volunteers, and promote tree plantings.
- Tree monitoring: Help us monitor how our tree plantings are doing.
Sign up below or contact us at development@stroudcenter.org or 610-910-0049.
![A volunteer from Exelon plants a tree in a new riparian buffer.](https://stroudcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/tree-planting-volunteer-exelon-flowers.jpg)
![A group of tree planting volunteers from Sycamore.](https://stroudcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/sycamore-volunteers-tree-planting.jpg)
![Volunteers planting native plants at Overlook Park.](https://stroudcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2022-overlook-park-tree-planting-volunteers-1024x576.jpg)
![Brownies flex their tree-planting muscles](https://stroudcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/brownies-planting-stroud-preserve.jpg)
Volunteer News
![A group of Exelon volunteers lean against a Stroud Center truck at a tree planting event.](https://stroudcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024-volunteer-tree-planting-truck.jpg)
Enhancing Ecosystems Through Community Efforts
Volunteers from Exelon, Wilmington Trust/M&T Bank, and Dansko joined us for tree plantings and maintenance at New Bolton Center. We appreciate their support!
![A streamside forest and native plant garden take root at Overlook Community Campus.](https://stroudcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/overlook-park-native-plant-garden.jpg)
Transforming Local Parks to Enhance Fresh Water
A streamside forest project in Lancaster, Pa., inspires sustainable initiatives for a cleaner Chesapeake Bay.
![Four women smile while holding tree cages at a tree planting event.](https://stroudcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/four-women-planting-trees.jpg)
Earth Week Volunteers Help Restore Red Clay Creek
Thanks to the volunteers from Constellation Energy, Dansko, LINKBANK, Resolution Life, Charter School of Wilmington, and the community who made the day a success!
![Volunteers staking native trees in Overlook Park](https://stroudcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/volunteer-tree-staking-overlook-park.jpg)
Cultivating Stewardship of Our Shared Waters
Brian Preston shares how people in a popular local park are discovering how a streamside forest and pollinator garden can be beautiful and good for clean water.
![Tom Best smiles as he stands in a young riparian buffer.](https://stroudcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/tom-best-young-tree.jpg)
Caring for Trees
Tom Best doesn’t own the young streamside forest he maintains each day. It's an act of service motivated by a parental feeling toward the woods.
![Three people identifying live aquatic macroinvertebrates.](https://stroudcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/watershed-steward-macro-id.jpg)
Earning a “Master’s” in Watershed Stewardship
How Penn State Extension launched one of the most successful volunteer training programs in the U.S. and revived struggling local watershed groups.