Over 137,000 people volunteered in our National Parks last year, for a total of 5.2 million hours. In California parks there were 40,000 volunteers contributing over 1 million hours. Portland's Forest Park had more than 1,000 volunteers and the Cascades Raptor Center thrives because of the benefit of 10 full-time equivalent volunteer workers. Those are just a few examples of the work…
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