For that memorable backpacking trip … for the clean water flowing from your tap … for the chance to glimpse a massive bull moose … September 24 is your day to say thank you.

National Public Lands Day, held annually in September, is the nation’s largest single-day volunteer event for public lands in the United States. Each year, thousands of volunteers turn out to remove trash, pull invasive weeds, improve trails and do much more to improve the public lands that provide us all with so many benefits.

With our community-based mission, the National Forest Foundation is dedicated to involving people and communities in this very type of environmental stewardship year-round. But the NFF is also helping to add to the results that National Public Lands Day generates with some NFF-sponsored events this September 24.

Check out our volunteer opportunities page to learn more or sign up to volunteer for one of these great projects:

** Engage in family-friendly conservation work at the NFF’s Tale of Two Rivers conservation campaign site on Oregon’s Deschutes National Forest, where the fisheries of Whychus Creek and the Metolius River are benefitting from active community support.

** Join the NFF and REI Northridge/Arcadia to restore the Wildwood Picnic Area and Stone Canyon Trail in California’s Angeles National Forest, an NFF Treasured Landscapes campaign site.

** Help improve wildlife habitat at another NFF Treasured Landscapes site by enhancing forest openings and streams in the Bearcat Hollow area of Arkansas’ Ozark National Forest.

Or if you need to find something closer to home, search the National Public Lands Day volunteer opportunities posted on their web site at http://www.publiclandsday.org.