We partner with others to create enduring conservation solutions for the Colorado Plateau.

The Grand Canyon Trust Volunteer Program is committed to conserving the ecosystems and landscapes that are fundamentally important to the Colorado Plateau. We do this by engaging volunteers—everyday people of all ages and backgrounds from across the nation and world, in science-based research and restoration projects that address the rapidly degrading ecosystems on public lands.

Our organization advocates collaborative, commonsense solutions to the problems affecting the region’s natural resources. We believe that long-term conservation efforts should balance a region’s ecological, economic, and community interests. That’s why we partner with others to maintain and restore public lands administered by the National Park Service, Forest Service, and Bureau of Land Management. We also contribute to the programs of the Arizona Game and Fish Department and restore sites that are administered by the Grand Canyon Trust.

Our philosophy in a nutshell: Volunteers Rock!

We take ordinary people to extraordinary places and get an unbelievable amount of work done in the process. We aren’t your regular sightseers, because we see the sights like a rare few: from behind the blade of a handsaw, the handle of a shovel, with a clipboard in hand. We look at the forest from within a square meter frame, and with a roll of barbed wire over our shoulder. We enjoy the view from under a tamarisk tree and from the middle of a field of blue corn.

We believe that the world can be changed with a few thoughtful people, giving their time to a larger effort. We only believe this because we see it again and again in the field working alongside amazing, generous people.