Community Stewards

Description:

Purpose

The Community Stewards Program works to empower community members to take action, encourage resilience through volunteerism, and increase the health of the community. The program consists of three “Adopt-A” style programs where individuals or groups commit to maintaining designated sections of trails, roadways, or stream sections by removing litter, invasive species, stream blocking woody vegetation and debris.

Community Steward Volunteers may request supplies for any of their coordinated clean-up efforts. They must submit a request for supplies at least two weeks prior to any clean-up effort. The following supplies are available for “check-out”:

• Safety vests
• Disposable gloves
• Trash pickers
• Trash and recycling bags
• 5-gallon buckets
• Small hand tools such as loppers or hand shears.

Key Responsibilities

Adopt-A-Stream:

• Remove invasive plant species, woody debris and litter from the stream channel and report items too large for removal such large branches, mattresses, shopping carts, small furniture, etc... Items too large for removal are items that the volunteers do not feel comfortable to remove or do not have the means to transport.
• Tracking impacts by recording the number of bags of trash and invasive plant species removed. Submit photos of volunteer efforts
  • Current reporting form (Stream Steward Reporting Page (arcgis.com)).

Adopt-An-Ave:

• Remove litter from adopted section and report if there are items too large for removal such as mattresses, shopping carts, or small furniture.
• Report cleanup activities through email (Number of trash/recycling bags, participants, hours spent on the cleanup and photos).

Adopt-A-FUTS:

• Remove litter from adopted section of the Flagstaff Urban Trail System (FUTS) and report if there are items too large for removal such as mattresses, shopping carts, or small furniture.
• Report cleanup activities l (Number of trash/recycling bags, participants, hours spent on the cleanup and photos).

Time Commitment:

Duration

Adoptions have a two-year requirement, with a minimum of 3 cleanups per year. Cleanups can take place anytime of the year with safe weather conditions. Cleanup Supplies are available for pickup two-days prior to the event. Supplies are returned no later than the Monday after the cleanup. Reporting for the cleanup is due on the Monday after the cleanup.

Time Commitment

• 1-2 hours per cleanup. (average)
• 2-3 times per year (minimum)
• A minimum of 3 cleanups per year.

Volunteer Benefits:

• Public facing name on Adopt-A sign
• Education on Invasive Plant Species
• Becoming more familiar with the Flagstaff area

Documents:

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Assigned sections of Stream, Avenue sections.

• Adopt-An-Ave and Adopt-A-FUTS (litter cleanups): Sections in black are adopted, sections in red are available. Community Stewards Adopt-a-FUTS (flagstaffaz.gov)
• Adopt-A-Stream (removal of litter, invasive plant species and woody debris blocking the channel): Sections in purple have been adopted, sections in blue are still available. Friends of the Rio de Flag Stewards (arcgis.com)