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How can you have fun, meet others, gain new skills, enjoy fresh air, and participate hands-on in an important cause?
Volunteer for a few hours in a WMTP work party!
No special skills, fitness, or gear from you are required! We’ll show you how to do everything and provide all the tools and support needed. Working safely and comfortably as a flexible group, the work is always fun and satisfying!
Family members (elementary age or older) and friends can come too — and often do! (Participants age 14 and under must be accompanied by a parent/guardian… see our Work Parties FAQs.) Usually, we have 20-25 people per event — a “just right” size.
Coordinating a group to volunteer together? First, click here to see special details that apply. Then please contact us before you sign up as a group. Thanks!
Ready to sign up with us? All it takes is the few easy steps below:
Step 1: New to WMTP Work Parties?
Please click the button below:
Register to volunteer HERE!Step 2: Already filled out the form from Step 1 above?
Then click any box lower on this page for a specific work party date to attend. After you submit the brief form that will appear, you’ll receive an auto-reply email confirming your submittal. (Check your Spam folder, if necessary.) Still didn’t receive the confirmation email? Please contact us ASAP.
Step 3: Keep an eye on your email Inbox.
Please be sure to add the work party’s date and time to your calendar. Then keep an eye on your email Inbox. No later than two days before the work party, you’ll receive a reminder email with further details (parking, exact location, any changes, etc.). If you have questions or didn’t receive the reminder email, please contact us ASAP. Thanks!
Upcoming WMTP Work Parties
Check out our Winter-Spring 2026 schedule below!
Registration is required to participate in all events – please sign up if you plan to attend, to ensure you receive event-specific updates and details you need to know. Registration deadline for all events is 11:59 pm the day before.
Monday, January 19th, 12-3pm: Ivy removal work party at Dittrich Park for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service
Honor the legacy of MLK, Jr. on this special day, by getting outside in community with others, and contributing to the restoration of a beautiful local park! You’ll remove invasive English ivy from the ground and tree trunks, extending the lives of trees, and clearing the way for native undergrowth to return. Ivy removal is an easy and fun way to make a real and immediate positive impact on the health of our environment!
Registration is required to attend – please sign up below!
Sunday, March 1st, 12-3pm: Seedling potting work party at the NSEA Native Plant Nursery.
Help us get a shipment of bare-root native tree seedlings and plugs safely into pots, so they can survive and grow until it’s time to plant them in their permanent home somewhere in Whatcom County. It’s a fun and very accessible way to support our tree-planting program!
Registration is required to attend – please sign up below!
Sunday, March 8th, 12-3pm: Tree-planting work party at Whatcom Humane Society’s Division St. Shelter
We’ll be adding native trees to the dog-walking field to provide much-needed shade for dogs and volunteers, visual and auditory buffers that will reduce stress, and natural pollution mitigation for the nearby wetland.
Registration is required to attend – please sign up below!
Sunday, March 15th, 12-3pm: Tree-planting work party at Whatcom Humane Society’s Division St. Shelter
We’ll be adding native trees to the dog-walking field to provide much-needed shade for dogs and volunteers, visual and auditory buffers that will reduce stress, and natural pollution mitigation for the nearby wetland.
Registration is required to attend – please sign up below!
Sunday, March 22nd, 12-3pm: Tree-planting work party at Whatcom Humane Society’s Division St. Shelter
We’ll be adding native trees to the dog-walking field to provide much-needed shade for dogs and volunteers, visual and auditory buffers that will reduce stress, and natural pollution mitigation for the nearby wetland.
Registration is required to attend – please sign up below!
Saturday, March 28th, 12-3pm: Jensen Family Forest Park
This beautiful park near Custer, WA had been in the Jensen family for generations until the family donated the 23-acre forest, placed under a conservation easement held by Whatcom Land Trust, to Whatcom County Parks in 2006. The park is home to many mature trees including Douglas firs and bigleaf and vine maples. It also protects important habitat and has an accessible trail for public use. It’s a beautiful park and will be even more enhanced by this planting project!
Registration is required to attend – please sign up below!
Saturday, April 11th, 12-3pm: Jensen Family Forest Park
This beautiful park near Custer, WA had been in the Jensen family for generations until the family donated the 23-acre forest, placed under a conservation easement held by Whatcom Land Trust, to Whatcom County Parks in 2006. The park is home to many mature trees including Douglas firs and bigleaf and vine maples. It also protects important habitat and has an accessible trail for public use. It’s a beautiful park and will be even more enhanced by this planting project!
Registration is required to attend – please sign up below!
Saturday, April 18th, 12-3pm: Jensen Family Forest Park
This beautiful park near Custer, WA had been in the Jensen family for generations until the family donated the 23-acre forest, placed under a conservation easement held by Whatcom Land Trust, to Whatcom County Parks in 2006. The park is home to many mature trees including Douglas firs and bigleaf and vine maples. It also protects important habitat and has an accessible trail for public use. It’s a beautiful park and will be even more enhanced by this planting project!
Registration is required to attend – please sign up below!
More work parties are added periodically to this page — subscribe to our free monthly e-newsletter to get the earliest scoop on our updates!
Please spread the word if you know anyone else who may like to attend one of our fun upcoming work parties! Thanks!
Work Parties FAQs
Q: When will I receive further details about the work party I signed up for?
A: Details such as the work party’s exact location, parking details, etc. will be emailed to registered participants no later than two days before the work party. If you don’t see that email by then, please contact us ASAP.
Q: What if I need to cancel?
A: If you signed up, please show up! But if you need to cancel for some unforeseen reason, that’s okay — just please let us know ASAP by email.
Q: Do youth who want to attend have special requirements?
A: For kids 8-14, a waiver must be signed for each youth by a legal guardian, and they must be accompanied and closely supervised by a legal adult. Youth 15-17 years old may attend without a parent or guardian as long as they have the signed waiver! Youth will not be allowed to participate without the signed waiver. Please request the waiver in your registration form if needed.
Q: What should I wear and bring to a work party?
A: Please wear sturdy closed-toed shoes, long pants, and weather-appropriate clothing. Bring a water bottle and favorite gloves if you have your own.
Q: What is WMTP’s work party focus?
A: It depends on the time of year. Tree seedlings are best planted in dormant (cold) months. So our work parties from late November through end of March tend to be focused on that. The remainder of the year our work parties maintain existing planting sites or remove invasive English ivy to save mature trees.
Q: Can businesses hold an employee work-party with WMTP?
A: Yes, we love doing that! Please consider an Employee Team-Building Work Party with us! We’ll handle the planning/logistics and support everyone at the event. The fun, satisfying work and team-building can have a terrific positive impact on your colleagues!
Q: What do I need to know if I am coordinating a large group to volunteer?
A: Please contact us at volunteering@whatcommilliontrees.org before you sign up. Work parties are a wonderful, positive team-building experience and we’re delighted to host large groups, but they do involve some extra coordinating and communication. Thank you for reading and following the additional guidelines below to help us best support your team’s success!
- For groups of 10-15 members, please give us at least three weeks’ advance notice for the event you wish to attend together to ensure there will be sufficient space and supplies.
- For groups of 16+ members participating, we may be able to coordinate a dedicated work party just for your team! Please give us at least six weeks’ advance notice ahead of when you wish to hold the event (eight weeks minimum for any event you wish to happen in April — Earth Day events are always in high demand).
- For youth/student groups, please have a faculty sponsor or adult facilitator from the group contact us to coordinate. (If the coordination/communication piece is part of an assignment to gain leadership experience for an individual student or group of students, please let us know. We will still require an adult contact as back-up, and extra lead time to support effective planning and communication.)
- For younger groups of youth (8-14 yrs of age), at least one adult chaperone for every two youths is required to attend with the group. WMTP staff are not responsible for providing child supervision. The nature of the work, involving sharp and often heavy tools, requires close adult supervision to ensure everyone’s utmost safety, and the adults in your group need to provide that supervision as part of their participation.
- Liability waivers: Every adult must individually sign WMTP’s liability waiver for themselves before the event, and the event coordinator from your group is responsible for ensuring its distribution and providing reminders as needed. Each youth in attendance must have the youth liability waiver/consent form signed for them by a legal guardian.
