National Public Lands Day
Saturday, September 27, 2008
National Public Lands Day (NPLD) provides an opportunity for volunteers nationwide to roll up their sleeves and build sweat-equity in America’s backyard—our public lands.
Volunteers build trails and bridges and transform many sites into universally accessible areas. They renew buildings, improve wildlife habitat, plant stream banks, restore shorelines and complete other projects that would not be undertaken without the infusion of volunteers that National Public Lands Day provides.
Sponsored for the tenth straight year by Toyota Motor Sales USA, Inc., NPLD is the largest volunteer hands-on activity of its kind in the country providing over $12 million in volunteer labor and in-kind contributions to over 1,100 public land areas nationwide.
National Public Lands Day partners with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Reclamation, Department of Defense, Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, and USDA Forest Service along with state, county, city and other local land management agencies.