12:45pm | More than 180,000 volunteers at more than 2,000 sites across the country and in U.S. territories met on Saturday, September 24, to take part in National Public Lands Day (NPLD), the largest single-day volunteer effort for public lands in the United States.
Volunteers in every state visited their favorite parks, beaches, wildlife preserves, or forests and chipped in to help improve these treasured places that belong to all Americans.
Locally, volunteers gathered at El Dorado Regional Park to remove concrete from around a lake edge and restore the area to native habitat including: soil prep,planting trees and shrubs and mulching.
Volunteers gathered at El Dorado Regional Park to remove concrete from around a lake edge and restore the area to native habitat including: soil prep,planting trees and shrubs and mulching.
Volunteers gathered at El Dorado Regional Park to remove concrete from around a lake edge and restore the area to native habitat including: soil prep,planting trees and shrubs and mulching.
Theresa Maceyka, Grounds Maintenance Superintendent for Dept of Parks, Recreation & Marine, helps carry a tree at El Dorado Regional Park.
A duck wanders past a potted plant where volunteers gathered to restore to native habitat the area by the lake at El Dorado Regional Park.
Volunteers gathered at El Dorado Regional Park to remove concrete from around a lake edge and restore the area to native habitat including: soil prep,planting trees and shrubs and mulching.
Volunteers gathered at El Dorado Regional Park to remove concrete from around a lake edge and restore the area to native habitat including: soil prep,planting trees and shrubs and mulching.
Theresa Maceyka, Grounds Maintenance Superintendent for Dept of Parks, Recreation & Marine, shows a volunteer about planting during National Public Lands Day at El Dorado Regional Park on Saturday.
Volunteers gathered at El Dorado Regional Park to remove concrete from around a lake edge and restore the area to native habitat including: soil prep,planting trees and shrubs and mulching.
Volunteers gathered at El Dorado Regional Park to remove concrete from around a lake edge and restore the area to native habitat including: soil prep,planting trees and shrubs and mulching.
Volunteers gathered at El Dorado Regional Park to remove concrete from around a lake edge and restore the area to native habitat including: soil prep,planting trees and shrubs and mulching.
Volunteers gathered at El Dorado Regional Park to remove concrete from around a lake edge and restore the area to native habitat including: soil prep,planting trees and shrubs and mulching.
Volunteers gathered at El Dorado Regional Park to remove concrete from around a lake edge and restore the area to native habitat including: soil prep,planting trees and shrubs and mulching.
Theresa Maceyka, Grounds Maintenance Superintendent for Dept of Parks, Recreation & Marine, loads mulch for newly planted trees and shrubs around the lake at El Dorado Regional Park.
A duck wanders past a wheelbarrow that volunteers used to restore the area by the lake to native habitat.
Volunteers gathered at El Dorado Regional Park to remove concrete from around a lake edge and restore the area to native habitat including: soil prep,planting trees and shrubs and mulching.
Volunteers gathered at El Dorado Regional Park to remove concrete from around a lake edge and restore the area to native habitat including: soil prep,planting trees and shrubs and mulching.
Volunteers gathered at El Dorado Regional Park to remove concrete from around a lake edge and restore the area to native habitat including: soil prep,planting trees and shrubs and mulching.
Volunteers gathered at El Dorado Regional Park to remove concrete from around a lake edge and restore the area to native habitat including: soil prep,planting trees and shrubs and mulching.
Volunteers pose with certificates after planting trees and shrubs along a lake at El Dorado Regional Park on Saturday.