Youth Volunteer Patch Program

• Litter pickup on trails
• Deberm trails
• Honeysuckle, garlic mustard and other invasive species removal
• Maintain flower beds at visitor center (weeding, watering, etc.)
• Maintain gravel walkways around monument
• Reset gravel and landscaping stones at back of visitor center

• Trash pickup in the swimming hole/shut-ins area
• Exotic species eradication along the bike trail and at the horse camp
• Special event assistance
• Graffiti removal from picnic tables
• Big Creek trash pickup
• Visitor center assistance
• Participate in Keep Baker Beautiful Day event

• Trail work on Snow Trillium Trail – general maintenance/debris removal
• Trail work on Oxbow Trail at Iliniwek Village State Historic Site – cutting small limbs and debris removal
• Sweep out six historic buildings

• Gardening
• Trimming and pruning foliage
• Splitting rails
• Staff visitor center
• Give tours of the Anderson House
• Assist with programming
  • Could incorporate site’s geocache in GPS program
  • Could incorporate site’s ropewinder in knots and rope work program

• Brogans Trail maintenance
• Spring cleanup and readying the site for on-season

• Litter pickup in the following areas
  • Three fishing zones
  • Campgrounds
  • Along roads
  • Shelter areas
  • Cabin areas
  • River access

• Rake leaves in the fall
• Spring cleanup

• Debris cleanup
• Power washing buildings
• Clean up playground equipment
• Replace playground border and the level sand
• Replace boundary signs
• Clean up and straighten all park signs
• Painting

• Trail maintenance: Boardwalk Trail and Bottomland Trail
• Giant cane planting along the day-use area/natural area boundary
• Natural area sign replacement/park boundary sign replacement
• Lake cleanup: debris/trash removal around the lake and cleaning fishing access areas
• Painting and minor structure repair

• Assist visitors and staff at special events
• Clean stream bed
• Clear vegetation from stream banks
• Cemetery trail maintenance
• Clean machinery in mill
• Site programming – using themes relevent to both the site and their organization

• Maintenance on hiking trails
• Whitewashing of Boone home and yard fence
• Setup/take down/parking cars at the Homestead Days Festival in October

• Assist with special events
• Operate concession stand
• Park cars
• Maintain trails
• Trash pickup
• Sweeping out historic structures along trails
• Cleaning off bench seats

• Trail cleanup
• River access cleanup

• Cleaning the headstones in the cemetery
• Policing and cleaning up the playground area
• Policing and cleaning up the Pergola site

• Invasive plant removal (seasonal)
• Litter collection
• Restoration planting (seasonal)

• Spring cleaning of Camp Grand River in preparation for on-season
• Spring cleaning of enclosed shelter house for on-season
• Trail maintenance to include removal of litter, trimming of branches and informing staff of other issues
• Spring litter cleanup along park roads and along mowed areas
• Invasive plant removal
• Assistance with special events
• Visitor programming such as:
  • Guided hikes
  • Fishing clinics
  • Orienteering
  • GPS
  • Knots and rope work

• Litter patrol
• Trail work – the park has 36 miles of trail
• Stewardship projects
  • Evasive species control
  • Seed collection
  • Tree thinning
  • Fish habitat

• Trail renovation
• New trail construction
• Exotic species removal

• Mow lawns
• Weed site gardens
• Paint fence
• Give relevent history program

• Trail maintenance
• Interpretive programs
  Outdoor skills
  Fishing clinics
  Outdoor cooking
  Orienteering
  GPS
  History
• Huzzah stream cleanup

• Braille Trail - maintenance
• Engine House Trail – maintenance
• Spring cleanup and readying the park for on-season
• Stacking wood
• Invasive plant removal

• Help with site gardens
• Help with special event

• Spring cleanup in preparation for the on-season
• Fall cleanup at end of camping season
• Trail maintenance
• Fire line preparation
• Invasive plant removal
• Minor maintenance and cleaning
• Painting
• Visitor programming, such as:
  • Outdoor skills
  • Outdoor cooking
  • History
  • GPS
  • Guided Hikes

• Interpretive programming
• Trail maintenance
• Park cleanup
• Exotic species removal

• Post Office Day-Use Area Grooming
• Pick up litter along roadsides

• Trail work – clearing and maintaining trails
• Install logs (water bars) for erosion control in day-use area
• Litter pickup
• Paint and stain bridges/structures
• Plant willow cuttings along creek
• Build campsite tent pads
• Transplant pine trees for restoration (November)

• Weeding, cultivating and mulching the flower beds, herb garden and other plants and flowers in the house and office area.

• Clear trails
• Build trails
• Work with recycling (sort)
• Make/set up benches for fire ring
• Gravel a walkway to the fire ring
• Make/place posts for Horseshoe Glade Trail podcast
• Ditch around mosaics
• Plant/maintain wildflower garden; includes preparing a place/bed for it

• Spring cleanup and readying the park for on-season
• Litter patrol
• Trail duty – walk trail and inform full-time staff of downed trees and any other problems
• Visitor Programming
  • Invasive Species Detection and Removal – Bush Honeysuckle, Johnson grass, etc.
  • Equestrian Dos and Don’ts - followed by a ride on equestrian section of the trail
  • Bicycle Maintenance 101 followed by a bike ride on the trail

• Plant/fungus identification and utilization
  • Use MDCs cookbook “Missouri’s Wild Mushrooms” to cook small meal as an example of resource available to visitors
  • Use wild mushrooms found in the park
• Invasive Species Detection
• Assist with managed deer hunt
• Visitor programming
• Guided hikes – any or all trails, longer hikes could be planned with McAdoo Trail or Opossum Hollow Trail
• Equestrian Dos and Don’ts followed by a ride on McAdoo Trail
• Bicycle Maintenance 101 followed by a bike ride on Opossum Hollow Trail
• Fire building
• Outdoor cooking – Dutch oven cooking, etc.
• Orienteering – KNSP has two courses, which would be good for the patch
• GPS – could be used for a scavenger hunt
• Leave No Trace – An overnight program could be held in the special-use area
• Knob Noster SP history – park’s importance to WPA era
  • Spring cleanup and readying the park for on-season
• Cleaning fire rings in campground
• Removing large sticks/branches from campground area
• Detail clean specific buildings, such as showerhouses, visitor center, vault toilets, etc.
  • Stacking wood – for park shop
  • Assistance with a specific area of the park
• Special-use area: check for litter
• Lake(s): check for litter
• Group camp(s): check for litter
  • Invasive plant removal, bush honeysuckle, teasel, etc.
  • Minor maintenance, such as
• Trail work
• Basic maintenance/building
• Trail duty – walk trail and inform full-time staff of downed trees and any other problems
  • Staffing the visitor center: weekends during on-season
  • GPS specific themed sites of interest and create an activity associated with those sites (examples – historical tour of park or a winter GPS trail to areas off the beaten path that have some significance to the park.
  • Equestrian training workshops – leave no trace, guided trail ride with cookout somewhere along the trail
  • Solar energy program – or have a group build some type of equipment
  • Wood working program – building animal houses, then naturalist would do a whole day of wildlife activities
  • Mushroom program

• Pick up trash in the campground
• Pick up trash along lake shore
• Clean fire rings in campground and Pin Oak Hollow
• Sort aluminum cans

• Litter and debris cleanup on the park grounds
• General cleanup of campground in the late fall (leaf cleanup, etc.)
• Spring cleanup and readying the park or the campground for on-season
• Stacking wood/preparing the campground for on-season
• Assistance with a specific area of the park as needed
• Invasive plant removal at the interpretive plaza, bottomland restoration area and native tallgrass prairie
• Minor maintenance, cleaning and possibly small construction projects
• Painting
• Trail work
• Visitor programming such as
  • Outdoor skills
  • Guided hikes
  • Fire building
  • Outdoor cooking
  • Orienteering
  • GPS
  • Knots and rope work
  • History of Lewis and Clark’s voyage through the area (significance of the park)

• Backpack camp construction and repair existing backpack camps along the backpack trail
• Retaining wall construction and landscaping at varied locations
• Trail clearing – 25 miles of trail that could be adopted and the need to clean large amounts of flood debris off of the trails
• Landscape project to plant trees in campground and mulch around trees
• Bulletin board construction and placement – use of state park design is required
• Repaint parking stripes on park’s parking lots
• Paint jobs
• Pour a hopscotch play area at the campground
• Build some benches and have them placed at the appropriate locations in the park (Park must approve design)
• Repair seats in the amphitheater
• Roadside cleanup along the route to the park

Individual Projects:

• Produce interpretive materials to distribute to the public (for example: Design and make 1,000 buttons to give out on stopping the spread of the emerald ash borer; example 2: Design a park safety coloring book or fishing “how to” coloring book to give to park visitors)
• Visit the park during each of the seasons and help create a bird list for the park that could be put in checklist format and distributed. Observe and identify all the birds you can during your visits.
• Design and run a recycling program for our park for one full year (vacation season)
• Make a display for the park on water safety

• Pick up trash

• Assist with management of a natural area
  • Invasive species control
  • Seed collection
  • Seed planting
  • Boundary line management
    • Ensure that signs are up
    • Look for encroachment
    • Remove undesirable vegetation

• Invasive plant removal
• Trail maintenance
• Assist with interpretive activities in the museum annex (mainly Saturday hours)

• Painting
• Cleanup an area, such as Cane Bottom
• Stacking wood

• Stream cleanup
• Trash pickup and maintenance along hiking trails
• Clean the mill
• Paint buildings
• Water flowerbeds
• Help at special events
• Eradicate invasive species
• Assist with nature programs
• Remove branches with hanging line and hooks from stream bank
• Plant native trees and flowers

• Trail maintenance: Beech Tree Trail
• Construct and place bridges/water crossings at points on the trail
• Tree planting at a small reclamation area
• Invasive plant species removal

• Glade restoration
• Exotic species removal
• Litter cleanup along highway
• Wildflower garden work
• Trail work
• Cave cleanup
• Assist with Haunted Cave Tours
• River bank cleanup

• Spring cleanup of the campground – trash removal, cleaning fire rings, trimming limbs, etc.
• Spring cleanup to open the showerhouse – thorough clean inside and out
• Spring cleanup of the shelter house – thorough clean inside and out
• Clean up along the boardwalk – trash removal, trim limbs, minor maintenance, clean displays, etc.

• Paint buildings
• Shoreline cleanup
• Trail maintenance

• Improve wet crossings on trails with stones or other means
• Forb or grass seed collection
• Keep the picnic area cleaned up
• Monitor or do light upkeep on trail
• Catch critters for the nature center – food items for animals already there
• Pick up trash along county roads and throughout park
• Assist with Prairie Jubilee or other events
  • Maintain a booth
  • Pick up litter
  • Greet people
  • Take meals and water to stations
  • Do face painting
  • Assist people getting on the trailers for the bison tours

• Paint or stain benches
• Pick up trash
• Trail maintenance
• Campground projects
• Special event assistance
• River cleanup 

• Collect nuts from specific oak, hickory, buckeye and walnut trees
• Plant trees in specific areas of park
• Invasive plant removal
• Paint and waterproof park structures
• Lead guided interpretive hikes
• Assist with special events

• Invasive plant control
• Old fence wire removal
• Assist with programs if youth have applicable skills (e.g., orienteering or GPS)
• Assist with wildflower seed collection

• Playground and picnic area maintenance
• Trail maintenance
• Litter removal
• Downed limb removal from mowed areas

• Assist with general maintenance
• Assist in fee booth
• Mowing and trimming
• Trash collection and removal
• Trail maintenance
• Removal of invasive yucca in fen area
• Assist naturalist with interpretive programs
• Assist with restoring glade

• Pick up litter
• Minor cleaning of restrooms
• Trail work

• Trail construction (pending clearance)
• Lakeshore cleanup
• Clean up special-use area (remove downed wood and improve area)

• Litter cleanup in campground and on shoreline of Table Rock Lake
• Invasive plant removal
• Trail work on the White River Valley or Table Rock Lakeshore trails

• Litter removal
• Lake cleanup
• Trail work
• Invasive plant removal
• Projects with park naturalist

• Litter patrol
• Trail building/maintenance
• Invasive species removal
• Interpretive programs (with appropriate training)
• Special event assistance

• Pick up litter
• Water flowerbeds
• Sweep sidewalks
• Wash outside windows in historic home

• Shoreline cleanup
• Trail maintenance
• Paint buildings

• Count firewood
• Load recycled materials       
• Spring cleanup of buildings and grounds
• Invasive plant removal
• Painting        
• Trail work
• Staff museum
• Campsite rehab
• Vehicle maintenance(cleaning, checking fluids, etc)

• Assist at special event programs
• Do research for a temporary exhibit
• Maintain fire lanes
• Maintain trouble spots on the trails

• Roadway edges - litter patrol
• Trails - litter patrol and minor maintenance
• Lake shores - litter patrol
• Campground - litter patrol and minor maintenance

• Trail cleanup – walk a trail and pick up litter and remove small branches from trail
• Day-use area cleanup – pick up litter and remove small branches from mowing area
• Color a park poster – Don’t Kill the Snakes, Please Don’t Pick the Wildflowers, Park Program poster

• Conduct programs, such as weekday youth fishing clinics, guided hikes of Opossum Track or Thousand Steps Trail, orienteering
• Plant and/or wildlife survey of the glades
• Waterline cleanup
• Pick up litter in the park
• Perform a nature play at the amphitheater (several to choose from)

• Pick up litter around bicycle trail
• Pick up litter around lake shore
• Pick up litter in campground
• Clean fire rings in campground
• Whitewash fence
• Build replacement benches for the amphitheater
• Assist with wedding heirloom garden
• Assist with the removal of invasive species
• Paint exterior trim on the school
• Build new repro privies for church and school yards
• Paint window sashes and glaze window panes in the mill
• Replace board/batten exterior siding on garden shed
• Assist with installing borders for the flower and vegetable beds in the heirloom garden

• Brush clearing/trail maintenance on park trails
• Installation of water bars/erosion prevention projects on park trails
• Litter pickup
• Fall campground cleanup: leaf removal, litter removal, cleaning of fire grills
• Painting of park structures
• Replacing of park fence (rotted sections)
• Painting of parking lot stripes
• Plant/ animal surveys
• Invasive species removal
• Evening campground interpretive program
• Special event setup, cleanup and activities