Volunteer

Invasive Plant Removal

Removing invasive plants is the first step in habitat restoration! Join us at one of our many events or contact jsoles@arlingtonva.us to schedule one for your school, church or business group, or otherwise want to participate in this program.

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Native Plant Restoration and Nursery Workdays

Join volunteers in restoration plantings in Arlington’s parks every fall and spring. All year round, volunteers also plant locally collected seeds and tend seedlings at our nursery, as part of the first step in returning native plants to Arlington’s parks. Nursery workdays will resume soon and will be held every Tuesday afternoon from 2-4 p.m. at our nursery in Barcroft Park. To volunteer contact naturalresources@arlingtonva.us. Contact jsoles@arlingtonva.us to learn more or for location directions.

Citizen Science

Participate in a BioBlitz or the City Nature Challenge – or participate in one of the many iNaturalist projects in the county. Contact aabugattas@arlingtonva.us to learn more.

Submit Natural Resources Volunteer Hours

Park Steward Application  

Native Plant of the Month

Skunk Cabbage

Symplocarpus foetidus

Skunk Cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus) is usually the first plant to flower every year. It's scientific name is very fitting, translating to "fetid or stinking compound fruit." They do indeed smell and the fruit that results if pollinated is a compound fruit. But this plant goes by a wide variety of common names however: Skunk Cabbage, Swamp Cabbage, Skunkweed, Meadow Cabbage, Fetid Hellebore, Parson-in-the-Pillory, Polecat Weed, Clumpfoot Cabbage, Midas Ears, and Polkweed for example. Read more.