General Volunteer

Volunteers lend a hand in all aspects of the sanctuary and play an especially big role in helping with our tours and events. Our volunteers have a diverse variety of skill sets and backgrounds. We are grateful to all those who are willing to contribute their time toward helping the wolves.

Volunteers are typically needed on Tues, Thurs, Sat, and Sun, before, during, and after tour times. For public tours, they should arrive no later than 1.5 hours before the tour, and are encouraged to stay at least until the tour is over. Help is needed both indoor (gift shop cleaning, inventory, filing, etc.) and outdoor (weeding, snow/ice removal, chopping/prepping meat, installing/repairing fencing, etc.). Volunteers are expected to listen to assigned tasks and are not permitted to wander the property if their assigned task is not yet completed.

Volunteers are placed on the schedule on an as-needed basis. During the winter months, we typically have less visitors, and less outdoor work to complete, so volunteers may not be scheduled for all of their desired hours. Volunteers should submit their availability via email no later than the 23rd of the preceding month, and will be contacted if they are not needed for a particular day that they listed. Volunteers are not permitted to come help without notice. Volunteers must call the information center or email if they cannot make it on a scheduled day. If volunteers miss a day without notifying the appropriate party, more than 3 times they will be dismissed and no longer permitted to volunteer.