Volunteering with Katrina

Katrina was our leader at Sue-Meg State Park. Katrina has such a happy and welcoming personality that is important in her work. She works with many volunteers that help keep the park going and having a welcoming personality helps keep volunteers coming back. Katrina loves her work and is always ready to share what she has learned as well as sharing how she came to be doing what she is doing. Katrina is one of the leaders over volunteers that come help at the park. With the help of the volunteers she leads, they have a positive outcome of not only keeping the park running, but also helping the environment by giving the native plants a better chance of surviving with less invasive plants. Some contextual factors that go into this are the number of employees that work with Katrina. If there are not as many employees at a given time, there cannot be as many volunteer events. The public interest in state parks and taking care of nature is also an important factor. If there is no interest in volunteering then the park will not be able to be sustained. The government is a broad contextual factor but the government is one of the main ways state parks are funded, therefore, if the government is no longer willing to fund state parks, then the employees of these state parks will no longer be paid and will be forced to look elsewhere for employment. While state parks are also funded by donations, grants, and special funds, the government is a large part, and losing any of these sources of funds would be detrimental to state parks.Les mer