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Become a Busy Beaver
for the Indreland Audubon Wetland Preserve!

The Sacajawea Audubon Society is a small nonprofit organization, so we are highly dependent on our incredible crew of dedicated volunteers. 

Volunteering at the Indreland Audubon Wetland Preserve is a unique opportunity to get involved with a local conservation effort and the largest urban wetland in Montana. 

The IAWP Busy Beavers are a volunteer corps dedicated to preserving, restoring, and maintaining this wetland site. 
Busy Beavers commit at least 10 hours a year to a combination of one-day and long-term volunteer opportunities and gain access to valuable community, training, and education opportunities. 

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Find out more about your local wetland and fill out the application below.

Become a Busy Beaver today! 

 

Contact Information


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Select Adult if you are 18+ and Youth if you are under the age of 19. (If a youth, parent or legal guardian will be required to enter contact information further down in this agreement).

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Busy Beaver Info

Are you a returning Busy Beaver or signing up for the first time?
Which Busy Beavers training and other training/certification have you completed in the past?
Which of these long-term projects are you interested in?
Which of these recurring or one-time projects are you interested in?
Are you interested in joining the Speedy Beavers? These volunteers will be called on short notice to help with urgent beaver management (such as wrapping trees and clearing dam material from the culvert), filling gaps in the water monitoring schedule, and other "rapid dispatch" tasks.
Busy Beavers Members Water monitoring at the Indreland Audubon Wetland Preserve
To help us with scheduling events, please let us know your preferred days and times to volunteer.

Let us know more about your schedule and what times you'd prefer to volunteer.

SAS is always looking for volunteers with unique skills that can help our mission and we're eager to help you find your niche. What skills or knowledge do you have that you'd like to bring to the project?
How are you willing to be contacted on short notice for Speedy Beaver tasks?

Do you volunteer for other organizations? Are you a member of any organization that may be interested in collaborating with SAS on restoration, education, or events at the IAWP?

What volunteering have you done with the Busy Beavers so far and how did it go? Do you have any comments, concerns, or suggestions based on your experiences?
Volunteer Agreement
The activities the volunteer/participant engages in with SAS are inherently risky and may cause harm to the volunteer/participant including injury, illness or even death. Recognizing this, volunteer/participant and guardian do hereby release, to the fullest extent allowed by law, and forever discharge and hold harmless SAS, its staff and board, its successors, and assigns from any and all liability, claims and demands of whatever kind or nature, either in law or in equity, which arise or may hereafter arise from the volunteer/participant’s work with SAS. Volunteer/Participant and guardian understand that this release discharges SAS from any liability or claim that the volunteer/participant and guardian may have against SAS with respect to any bodily injury, personal injury, illness, death or property damage that may result from volunteer/participant’s work for SAS. Volunteer/Participant and guardian also understand that SAS does not assume any responsibility for or obligation to provide financial assistance or other assistance, including but not limited to medical, health, or disability insurance, in the event of injury or illness.
Volunteer/Participant and guardian are aware that there are inherent risks in the activities associated with SAS programs. Knowing this, Volunteer/Participant and guardian do hereby release and forever discharge SAS from any claim whatsoever that arises or may hereafter arise on account of any first aid treatment, or service rendered in connection with the volunteer/participant’s work for SAS or with the decision by any representative of SAS to exercise the power of consent to medication or dental treatment, as such power is granted and authorized by the volunteer/participant signature and/or parent or guardian signature below for treatment of a minor. Volunteer/Participant and/or guarding represent and verify that Volunteer/Participant has no past or current physical condition that might affect his/her participation in the SAS programs or activities, other than as separately provided in writing to SAS. In the event that Volunteer/Participant is in need of emergency medical treatment, and guardian and/or the emergency contact listed above cannot be contacted Volunteer/Participant and guardian hereby authorize SAS and its instructors, volunteers/participants or staff to obtain or provide emergency hospitalization, surgical or other medical care for Volunteer/Participant. Volunteer/Participant and guardian specifically indemnify and hold harmless SAS, its instructors, volunteers/participants or staff from any negligence and all costs arising out of the decision to obtain and provide such care, treatment and/or procedure for such emergency,
BY CHECKING THIS BOX, I HEREBY ACKNOWLEDGE RECEIPT OF A COPY OF THIS AGREEMENT. I ALSO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THIS RELEASE WILL CONTINUE IN EFFECT ANY TIME I PARTICIPATE IN AN SAS-LED OR -SPONSORED ACTIVITY. IF I DO NOT FULLY UNDERSTAND THIS AGREEMENT AND RELEASE AND THE EFFECT OF ITS PROVISIONS, I WILL SEEK APPROPRIATE ADVICE OR CLARIFICATION BEFORE I SIGN IT BY CLICKING SUBMITTING .
Volunteer Agreement & Instructions for Youth Volunteers (under 18)

Please download the SAS Participant Service Agreement 2023 in the link below. Read the agreement before signing for individuals under the age of 18. All participants under 18 are required to submit this agreement signed by a parent or legal guardian before attending any Busy Beaver activities or events.

SAS Participant Service Agreement 2023

* FOR INDIVIDUALS UNDER AGE 18, THIS DOCUMENT MUST BE SIGNED AND INITIALED AT ALL INDICATED LOCATIONS BY A PARENT OR LEGAL GUARDIAN.

The signed document can be sent to wetlands@sacajaweaaudubon.org as a PDF, mailed to Sacajawea Audubon Society (ATTN: Busy Beavers) at PO Box 1711, Bozeman, MT, 59771, or a parent/guardian can bring a hard copy to your first Busy Beavers event.