Volunteers for Outdoor California, V-O-Cal, was founded to provide a volunteer workforce for large-scale trail maintenance and construction projects, habitat restoration and related land stewardship activities on public lands, in partnership with public agencies and other non-profit organizations.
V-O-Cal is closely modeled on a 22-year old organization in Colorado, VOC. While there are many Bay area organizations that do some form of land stewardship, the V-O-Cal approach is a little different, and it is designed to complement the work of local Friends of... groups and extend the reach of other agencies. We will work all over the region, from Monterey to the Trinity Mountains and from the coast to the western Sierra, offering volunteers a broad range of project types in a consistently well-organized fashion.
V-O-Cal provides the project planning and volunteer supervision for its partner agencies on its projects. A typical V-O-Cal project will have accumulated several hundred volunteer planning hours before the project weekend and provides the equipment, trained crew leaders, and quality control monitoring for the project itself, in accordance with the standards developed cooperatively with the partner agency.
