Volunteer With Us!
Save Texas Streams’ volunteer workdays offer community members across the Austin area meaningful, hands-on opportunities to restore and protect our local environment. Our volunteers contribute directly to the health of local waterways, greenbelts, and wildlife habitats by helping pick up litter, removing invasive plants, and supporting the regeneration of native flora. These efforts not only improve water quality and strengthen ecosystem resilience, but also foster a shared sense of stewardship and connection to the land. By engaging people of all backgrounds in this vital work, Save Texas Streams empowers the community to take part in preserving the natural spaces that define Central Texas.
We also welcome volunteers to get involved in our outreach and fundraising efforts—from representing our organization at community fairs to serving as a peer-to-peer fundraiser during our annual Amplify Austin Day campaign. If you're looking to share your passion for protecting water while also connecting with new people, we encourage you to get involved! Our volunteer initiatives offer rewarding ways to make a lasting impact.
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Volunteer Opportunities
Invasive Plant Removal Workday
March 28, 2026 | 2 - 4 PM CT
1600 Spyglass Drive, Austin, TX 78746
Help Save Texas Streams restore the Barton Creek Greenbelt to its native habitat by girdling invasive privet, chinaberry, and nandina trees! We will be led by invasive plant removal expert, Cliff Tyllick, who will demonstrate how to effectively sever the bark to block nutrient flow. All tools will be provided; just bring yourself, water for hydration, and an eagerness to tackle some stubborn invasives!
Help Us Table at Earth Day Austin
April 11, 2026 | 12 - 5 PM CT
900 Chicon Street, Austin, TX 78702
Help Save Texas Streams expand our reach and promote our cause at Huston-Tillotson University's annual Earth Day celebration. We will be handing out Explorer's Guides and leading a trivia game!
Watch the video on Austin Earth Day's home page to learn more about the festival and this year's theme. Hope to see you there!
Trash Cleanup Workday
April 25, 2026 | 2 - 4 PM CT
Chalk Ridge Falls Park, 5600 FM1670, Belton, TX 76513
Join Save Texas Streams and our partner, KAOS soccer, for a trash cleanup workday at Chalk Ridge Falls Park in Belton, Texas. We want to keep this recreational swimming area pristine and litter-free for people and wildlife, alike. Trash grabbers, heavy-duty trash bags, and rubber gloves will be provided. Please be sure to wear close-toed shoes and bring water for hydration!
Previous Volunteer Events
Save Texas Streams, Austin Ridge Riders, and other local volunteers collaborate to remove trash from the mountain biking trails surrounding Barton Creek.
Eric Paulus of Ecology Action worked with Save Texas Streams volunteers to ecologically restore a once neglected brownfield site abutting Roy G. Guerrero Park.
Save Texas Streams is committed to volunteer efforts to restore lands dedicated to water quality, such as the Shudde Fath Tract.
Volunteers set up an educational kiosk for the Goat Cave Preserve, a City of Austin preserve that showcases karst sinkholes that you can walk up to and look in.
Save Texas Streams tree planting and mulching at Circle Acres.
Save Texas Streams participated in a creek clean-up.
Program Assistant, Sara Zaman, worked with several volunteers to build an education kiosk at Goat Cave Preserve that details the unique hydrogeology of the preserve and Central Texas.
Save Texas Streams volunteers and Austin Preserve Manager, Renee Barrera, stand for a photo after a clean-up event.
