On this page:
1. Volunteer Forms and Duty Statements // Video: Why become a volunteer with Stewards of the Coast and Redwoods?
2. Volunteer Handbook and Emergency Contact
3. New Volunteer Trainings and Orientations – Zoom Recordings
4. State Parks Better Impact Volunteer Portal/Record your hours.
5. Volunteer Manuals and Other Resources
6. Program Resources
7. Articles and Videos
8. Training for Stewards administration only
9. Chainsaw Safety. Supervised Ground Work Only
10. State Parks Special Event Permit Forms
1. Volunteer Forms and Duty Statements
Volunteers must sign and return these forms to Amelia Schall in order to resume volunteers in State Parks
- Click here to access all Volunteer Forms and Duty Statements
- Watch: Why become a volunteer with Stewards of the Coast and Redwoods?
2. Volunteer Handbook and Emergency Contact
3. Resources from Volunteer Orientations and Trainings
- Check our YouTube Page for the latest recordings
- Includes New VOlunteer OriensSeal Watch, Coastal, Tidepool, Seabird, Art of Interpretation, and more!
- Marine Protected Areas (MPA) Courses and MPA Docent Training Frequently Asked Questions
- Docent Training with Save the Redwoods League’s Deborah Zierten 2021
- Interpretation Session with State Park Interpreter Michelle Levesque, February 13, 2021
- Marine Mammal Seminar with Dr. Sarah Allen – February 20, 2021
- Outdoor Ethics with Bill Nay. March 5, 2021
- Whale Entanglement Response May 14, 2021 with Jack Barkowski and Dick Ogg
- Whale Watch Training November 13, 2021
4. State Parks Better Impacts Volunteer Portal
Volunteer Better Impact Guides for tracking Volunteer Hours – Contact Amelia Schall for help.
The following two resources developed by Stewards and State Park staff should be helpful when navigating the Better Impact System:
- Better Impact – sign in, sign up
- My Volunteer Page – record your volunteer hours
- How to Create Your Profile OR Complete the Online Volunteer Application – YouTube
- How to Log In & How to Find Features in Your Better Impact Profile – YouTube
- How to Log Hours – YouTube
State Park Guides
5. Volunteer Manuals and Other Resources
Please be advised that our Docent manuals are out of date but there is still some very good information included in them. We will be updating these resources in the coming months.
ALL PROGRAMS
- Bear in Mind Training:
- Armstrong Redwoods Docents
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- New Docent Training materials:
- Climate Steward Syllabus – University of California 2022
- Jenner Visitor Center Docent Manual
- Marine Protected Areas (MPA) Docent Manual
- Pond Farm Docent Manual
- Seabird Volunteer Manual
- Seal Watch Docent Manual
- Tidepool Docent Manual
- Watershed Docent Manual
- Whale Watch Docent Manual
- Willow Creek Docent Manual
6. Program Resources
- Alpha Codes for Bird Species
- Armstrong Redwoods Fire Ecology Brochure
- Armstrong Redwoods Reopening FAQ
- California Coastal Monument – Bill Stanley
- California Pinniped Guide
- Cobra 2-Way Radio Manual
- Disturbance_Report_Slides_2020
- Dogs on Coastal Beaches – Jeffrey Smith – updated 11.5.21
- Drones: District Superintendents Order on Drones
- Drones: Banning Drones in Sonoma/Mendocino State Parks – Superintendent’s Order 2020
- Emergency Checklist – Ranger Tim Murphy – 2019
- Harbor Seal Fact Cards
- Lifeguard Safety Video
- Marine Mammals – Dr. Sarah Allen 80 page PDF presentation – 2019
- Marine Mammals of Central CA – Dr. Sarah Allen 130 page PDF Presentation
- Marine Mammal Center PDF presentation – Phil Warren – 2019
- MPA Outreach Education Guide
- MPA – Russian River SMCA
- MPA – Russian River SMRMA
- National Marine Sanctuary and Seabird Protection Network Presentation – Sage Tezak
- Pinnipeds and Cetacean Presentation – Jazzy Dinger
- Report Wildlife Crimes – 2019
- Seabird Protection Network – Paul Hobi – 2019
- Seabirds of the Sonoma Coast Presentation – Hollis Bewley
- Sonoma-Mendocino Coast District Redwood Interpretation Master Plan
- Speaking with the Public Reminders – Alex Weseloh (State Park Peace Officer)
- Find good tidepooling low-tides with Cal Coast Tide Finder
- Tidepool Beaches Sonoma Coast
- Tidepool – low tide -1.2 July 2, 2023 by A. Durica
- Viola adunca/Western Dog Violet and Myrtle’s Silverspot Butterfly – Where to find March through June
- Whale Watching and Pacific Gray Whale Facts
- Whale Watch Selected Resource List
7. Articles and Video
- Armstrong Redwoods
- “Austin Creek Campsites Now a Click Away” by Derek Moore, The Press Democrat
- Bodega Rock 5.23.2023 video by Stewards Seabird Watch Docents.
- California Marine Protected Areas
- Coastal Safety Training 2024
- Fishing and Marine Protected Areas
- Fire: Austin Creek after the Walbridge Fire, November 5, 2020
- Ice Age Bay Area video: Quest’s TV story, Ice Age Bay Area, premiered on KQED on Tuesday, November 11, 2007. The story is based in part on Breck Parkman’s paleoenvironmental research of the San Francisco Bay area. Breck participated in two day’s of filming with the Quest crew, including a bit at Sunset Rocks.
- Kashia Pomo Tribal Traditions
- Land Management: A Public Perspective, with Sarah Reid
- MPA: Sonoma-Mendocino County 2024
- MPA: Why do we need Marine Protected Areas?
- Oral History: David Steward
- Oral History: Gail Steele
- Oral History: Peder Hegland
- Pond Farm: Marguerite Wildenhain
- Pond Farm: Marguerite Wildenhain by Rollie Younger
- “Rubbing Rocks, Vernal Pools, and the First Californians: Pursuing the Rancholabrean Hypothesis” by E. Breck Parkman, Senior State Archaeologist
- Sonoma Coast: Blue Eyed Grass
- Sonoma Coast: California Hedgenettle
- Sonoma Coast: Exploring the Tidepools
- Sonoma Coast: Seaside Daisy and Buckwheat, with Laura Morgan and Peter Warner
- Sonoma Coast: Seaside Lunch Hour with Father Nayture
- Sonoma Coast: Sea Stars at North Salmon Creek
- Sonoma Coast: Tidepool Safety: Three Point Stance
- Sonoma Coast: Coastal Safety Guidelines
- Tidepool: At a Snail’s Pace – the distribution of a common Pacific Coast sea snail explains the underlying logic of the universe.
- Whales in Baja Aldolfo Lopez February 4, 2018
- Wildflowers: Armstrong Spring Flowers
8. Training for Stewards Administration only
9. Chainsaw Safety. Supervised Ground Work Only.
- CA State Parks list participating in free Memorial Day for Veterans.
- Chainsaw Safety – video for supervised ground work only. Watch before attending a live chainsaw training demonstration. Courtesy of Antiphony Life.

