Opportunities From: Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources

Volunteers will assist park naturalists with their hiking programs by taking the 'sweep' position in the back of the group and ensuring everyone stays together. Volunteer will alert staff if there is an issue and help maintain a safe atmosphere for all program participants. Hikes will vary in length and difficulty. Volunteers will be requested mostly from September to early May. 

Find out when the club is next working together to improve our parks by emailing president@butleroutdoorclub.org.  This opportunity is for joining in with the volunteer work aspect of the Butler Outdoor Club. Join the club itself by contacting president@butleroutdoorclub.org (there are modest yearly dues) to become involved in their many activities.

The Butler Outdoor Club promotes outdoor education and provides year-round outdoor activities in Western Pennsylvania and surrounding areas. These activities are geared for all levels and are designed to provide recreation and foster a better understanding and responsible use of the outdoors. Our activities include: hiking, backpacking, biking, birding, canoeing, kayaking, xc-skiing, snowshoeing, camping and trail maintenance.

The mailing address for the club is PO Box 255, Yatesboro, PA 16263

 Volunteers are appreciated to maintain and improve all trails to ensure safety, accessibility, and sustainability. This includes litter pick up, tossing small branches into the woods, and reporting downed trees and unsafe conditions to the park office. For organized trail work, also join the North Country Trail and Butler Outdoor Club opportunities. Thank you!

From time to time the park educators see a need for handcrafted items to share with audiences.  This could be small weaving looms, representations of animals, historic toys. Including things that answer the question: "How did children play or learn about nature before electronics?" Put your name on this list, along with your skills and interests and we can find you.

Many miles of the hiking trails in Moraine State Park are a part of the North Country Trail Association (NCTA), Butler Chapter. Discover training opportunities and help maintain the trail as part of this dedicated group of volunteers. We are looking for volunteers!  Would you like to be a trail adopter? Help maintain the trail? Assist with outreach, communications, and social media?  For more information on how you can help, send us an email at  but@northcountrytrail.org

The Moraine, McConnell’s Mill and Jennings Commission (3MJC) is on a mission! We are a community 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization providing support for Moraine and McConnells Mill State Parks and Jennings Environmental Education Center in beautiful Western Pennsylvania. Our mission is to enhance the appearance and function of these parks and to help educate the public and park visitors on park operations. We invite you to browse our website and attend one of our free monthly public meetings to learn more about our organization and the projects we manage. https://www.3mjc.org/

Contact the GRT team to see how you can help!
The GRT will offer four events to provide participants a choice of distances to match their experience, early-season fitness, and season-long goals – the 20 Mile Trail Run, the 50K and 50 Mile Ultramarathons and the 50-Mile 5-person relay. Except for a short stretch at the start and near the end, the 20 Mile and 50K events will be entirely on an exceptional single-track trail. In addition to the single-track, the 50 Mile course also includes a section of very runnable, yet very hilly, double-track/fire roads through beautiful hardwood forests. This race is held annually to celebrate our local trails and to provide a donation of all net proceeds to Moraine State Park, Jennings Environmental Center and McConnells Mill State Park. Our generous race sponsors have offset many of the race costs so that $140,000 could be provided to these parks over the race’s lifespan of thirteen years.

Moraine Preservation Fund (MPF) is a non-profit, volunteer organization that supports Moraine State Park. MPF has helped to develop important wildlife restoration projects like Project BATitat, the Osprey and Barn Owl Reintroduction Programs, along with the creation of a Native Plant & Butterfly Trail near the Giftshop.
MPF operates the Owlet Gift Shop located at McDanel’s Boat Launch, located off the North Shore park exit on Rt. 422 in Portersville. Moraine Preservation Fund also operates Preston’s Pearl, an enclosed pontoon boat that offers interpretive boat tours around Lake Arthur.  
Our Mission:
To promote community stewardship of natural resources within Moraine State Park, McConnells Mill State Park and Jennings Environmental Education Center.

The National Horse Lovers Assn, which is locally headquartered, maintains the trails used by horses in Moraine.  Contact them at www.nationalhorselovers.com

Volunteers maintain this site, and interpret it's history for visitors. An operating central power is tucked in the woods just beyond Muskrat Cove where a stream crosses under the service road. Built at the turn of the century, it contains a Bessemer engine, pumping jacks, and other equipment used during the early days of the oil industry. The engine is operated several times a year, typically second Saturdays of summer and fall months.

The Native Plant Butterfly Trail is a demonstration garden for educational purposes that is managed by dedicated Master Gardeners who work to remove destructive invasive plants, maintain the trails, and restore plants that are historically native to Butler County, Pennsylvania.   Our goal is to create an appreciation for and understanding of the importance of native plants, the interconnection with pollinators and wildlife, and to encourage their adoption in the home environment. To learn about volunteering in the butterfly trail gardens, visit https://extension.psu.edu/programs/master-gardener/counties/butler