Santa Clara County Parks Volunteer Activities

Equestrian Healthy Trails ride, Deep Gulch Trail, 6/1/08


Mike Boulland giving instructions to volunteers during cleanup of the Alamitos Creek watershed, 9/17/11


Volunteers with trash picked up above Jacques Gulch, Creek Cleanup Day, 9/17/11


Docent Teri Rogaway at the Almaden Quicksilver Mining Museum, Living History Day, 3/11/12


Docents Teri and Mary (left and right), with park interpreter Heidi (center) at the Almaden Quicksilver Mining Museum, 3/11/12


Blacksmith Chuck Farrier talks at the blacksmith shop, Almaden Quicksilver Mining Museum, Living History Day, 3/11/12.


Docents Mike Boulland and Dennis Moran at the ore cart race during "Play Like a Miner Day" at the Almaden Quicksilver Mining Museum, 6/30/12


Volunteer Shari Sullivan checks in visitors during "Play Like a Miner Day" at the Almaden Quicksilver Mining Museum, 6/30/12


Ribbon-cutting for the Hacienda Mining Museum Display, with members of the New Almaden Quicksilver County Park Association, who helped design and built the outdoor museum, 7/8/12.


Sam Drake gives a talk and demonstration on geocaching at the Wood Road Trailhead, 10/20/12


At the grounds of the Casa Grande, docent Kathy Kleinsteiber leads a class in phenology, which is the study of changes in plants and animals over time.

Cait Hutnik talking about the wildflowers on the Rancho San Vicente hike, 3/16/13


Cait Hutnik talking to the visitors at Calero Reservoir, before the Rancho San Vicente hike, 4/7/13


Cait Hutnik on Rancho San Vicente, near the canal, 4/7/13


Cait Hutnik pointing out the endangered Santa Clara Valley dudleya in Rancho San Vicente, 4/7/13

Volunteers helping with kids fishing at South Bay Fishing in the City, Sandy Wool Lake, Ed Levin, 2/13/11


Cleaning fish


Volunteers tending to the fishing tackle

Mike Boulland at the park information table, Healthy Trails Kickoff, 5/18/08


Docent Ken Halsey leads a bike ride at the Healthy Trails kickoff, 5/18/08


Hellyer, National River Cleanup Day sign-in 5/21/11


Volunteer Janice Frazier hands out Healthy Trails information, Festival in the Park, 6/25/11


Volunteers John Nast and Robbie Lamons at the County Parks Volunteers booth, Festival in the Park, 6/25/11


Volunteer sign-in booth, Festival in the Park, 6/23/12


Roy Ichinaga leads a crew of volunteers at Festival in the Park, 6/23/12


Docents help out at the kids craft tables, Festival in the Park, 6/23/12


Volunteers for National River Cleanup Day at Hellyer get instructions from the rangers.


This group is cleaning up the shores of Cottonwood Lake at Hellyer, 5/18/13

Tour of the Grant Ranch House, co-led by Ron Brickman, 3/6/04

Volunteers for South Bay Fishing in the City in Los Gatos Creek Park, led by Roy Ichinaga, help setup fishing tackle 9/14/08


A volunteer with South Bay Fishing in the City helps a kid who just caught a fish, 9/14/08




Volunteers clean fish for the lucky fishermen at  South Bay Fishing in the City, 9/14/08

Sam Drake prepareing for his geocaching class, Mt. Madonna 7/11/09


Sam Drake's geocaching class, 7/11/09


Sam Drake and John Nast, geocaching class, 7/11/09


Cait Hutnik talks about the Henry Miller at the ruins of the Miller estate, Mt. Madonna, 3/2/13

Volunteer leading hike at Sanborn's Forestry Days, 4/5/08

Fortini Trail workday, 5/3/08


Norred Trail work day 3/13/10


Ron Horii's outdoor photography hike, Bernal-Gulnac-Joice Ranch, 10/2/10


Docent Shari Sullivan greets visitors at the Park Information Table at Family Fandango, 8/13/11


Docent Dennis Moran helps setup roping horses at Family Fandango, 8/13/11


Friends of Santa Teresa Park booth, Family Fandango, 813/11


Bay Area Ridge Trail/REI work day at the Pueblo Area, volunteers getting instructions from Greg Bringelson, 11/5/11


Boy Scouts working on restoring the benches and cabinets at the Bernal-Gulnac-Joice Ranch, 2/18/12


Boy Scouts restoring garden boxes, Bernal-Gulnac-Joice Ranch, 2/18/12


Docent Cait Hutnik points out rare native plants on the Stile Ranch Trail, 2/16/13


Artist and docent Kathy Kleinsteiber conducts a wildflower drawing class at the Stile Ranch trailhead, 4/27/13.


Chuck Rambo shows plants at Carnivorous Plant Night at the Bernal-Gulnac-Joice Ranch, 5/11/3


4H'ers help cleanup the garden area at the Bernal-Gulnac-Joice Ranch, 5/18/13


Brian Shively helps with the Jr. Ranger program, 5/18/13

Cait Hutnik leads a hike on the Waterfall Loop in Uvas Canyon, 2/21/09


Docents and outdoor recreation coordinator Carrie Grisenti at the Uvas Canyon Valentine's Day hike, 2/13/10


Docent Mike Boulland takes pictures for the guests at Blackrock Falls


Mike Boulland takes pictures for couples at Basin Falls, 2/13/10


Cait Hutnik points out pictures during her mushroom hike in Uvas Canyon, 3/17/13

Vasona Cleanup, 1/15/12


Dr. Shirley Reekie, professor of kinesiology at SJSU, teaching her kayakking class at Vasona Lake, 5/26/13