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Tuesday, September 4, 2007

Volunteers needed at Valley Forge park

Local Volunteers Needed

on Saturday, Sept. 29, 2007

for nationwide effort to improve public lands

VALLEY FORGE, PA. – On Sept. 29, an estimated 100,000 volunteers across the country will roll up their sleeves and get their hands dirty helping to improve the nation’s parks, forests, rivers, lakes and wetlands during the largest annual, single-day volunteer restoration effort for America’s public lands.

Valley Forge National Historical Park, the site of the Continental Army’s encampment during the winter of 1777-78 is inviting area residents, businesses, corporations, universities and schools to lend a hand and support your local National Park during the nation’s largest hands-on volunteer effort to improve and enhance public lands.

In 2006, more than 320 volunteers planted trees, helped to reconstruct an observation deck using recycled lumber, repaired replica soldier huts, helped with trails maintenance, painted cannons and removed trash and exotic invasive plants from the Park.

Park Volunteer Program Manager, Ernestine White said, "We are planning to have twelve projects requiring from minimal skill to high skill that volunteers can choose from, a guided nature hike, an Environmental Expo and a fun youth workshop called “Create Your Own Bird Feeder”. Children, with their parents, will create their own bird feeders while learning about birds native to Pennsylvania, their habitats and their diets,” said White.

For more information about activities or to volunteer on National Public Lands Day contact Volunteer Program Manager Ernestine White at 610-783-1065 or by e-mail at ernestine_white@nps.gov. To see a list of coast to coast National Public Lands Day sites, activities, contacts and downloadable photos from past events, visit the media center section of www.publiclandsday.org.

About Valley Forge National Historical Park To learn more visit www.nps.gov/vafo.

National Public Lands Day began in 1994 with three federal agencies and 700 volunteers. Last year nearly 100,000 volunteers worked in 1,100 locations and in every state. Now, nine federal agencies and many state and local lands participate in this annual day of caring for shared lands.




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