For those who want to be outside as the temperatures warm, gardening is one of several outdoor volunteer opportunities at Audubon Community Nature Center.

Volunteers recently maintained social distancing while responding to Audubon Community Nature Center’s call for help.

The annual spring roadside clean-up is usually part of a major Volunteer Day. To comply with COVID-19 restrictions, this year Audubon sought households to do it as a stand-alone event. Participants brought their own gloves, while ACNC provided vests, bags, and guidelines.

Garlic mustard is an invasive plant that spreads quickly and takes over habitat from native plants.

The Audubon Community Nature Center provided garbage bags and identification materials for volunteers who worked in the Ted Grisez Arboretum to help get rid of the invasive species.

Other participants prepared the arboretum for lawn mowing by filling Audubon’s red wagon with branches that had blown down.

Volunteers also cleared brush off the trails, planted trees, weeded and planted gardens, cleaned out beaver debris from pipes, and more.

For more information about how to volunteer for the Audubon even while staying at home, visit AudubonCNC.org/volunteer or email Senior Nature Educator Katie Finch at KFinch@AudubonCNC.org. Audubon Community Nature Center is located at 1600 Riverside Road, just east of Route 62 between Warren, Pa., and Jamestown.

While the Nature Center building is closed until further notice due to COVID-19 and state recommendations, visitors are welcome to walk the trails and view Liberty, Audubon’s non-releasable Bald Eagle, from dawn to dusk daily.

More information can be found online at AudubonCNC.org or by calling 569-2345.