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Wish List/Volunteer Opportunities
Since the Cumberland Trail covers over 300 miles of trail corridor in 11 East
Tennessee counties, there are lots of opportunities for you to help support the
park. The Friends of the Cumberland Trail group will devote its efforts toward
supporting park needs in the area of natural resources management, historical
and cultural resource inventory and preservation, special events, ranger equipment
needs, visitor center development and publicity, while The Cumberland Trail Conference
focuses on trail building and trail maintenance. Both organizations will contribute
to critical land acquisition needs.
Education/Community Outreach Ranger Gives an Educational Talk - Friends Ambassadors in each county
- Public meetings
- Festivals, events
- School sponsorships - school affiliations - service projects
- Music organization sponsorships & affiliations
- Interpretive/educational films
- Public hikes/newsletter/website
Natural Resources Management
- Hemlock adelgid monitoring
- Potable water assessment
- Need volunteers who know how to use field equipment to collect and
handle field samples
 Natural Resources Management - Invasive exotic pest plant removal
- Boundary monitoring/maintenance
- Native plant restoration
- Native plant landscaping
- ATBI
- Interpretive geology/section by section
- Natural History Calendar (flowering, singing, bugling, migrating, etc)
- Photographic Inventory
- Iris Fund Project assistance
- Floral Inventory
- Collect specimens, take photos
- Mount and label specimens
- Press specimens
- Submit data to floral inventory database
- Hikers Photo Album
- Submit your photos of scenic vistas, rock formations, wildlife,
wildflowers, historic sites
Cultural Resources Management
- Audubon Acres cabin restoration
- “The Cumberland Trail” Radio Show
- Music Heritage
- Contribute interviews and existing recordings of music along
the CT
- Label and organize interviews and recordings
- Dub/burn discs/convert reel-to-reel
- Collect newspaper clippings about music and artists along
the CT
Equipment Needs
History
- Conduct oral history interviews and transcribe
- Log tapes by subject
- Connect photos to stories
- Collect old photos and copy
- Collect old postcards
- Collect articles from microfilm at library
- Ask local historical society
to do a collection
Land Acquisition
- Fundraising for land purchases
- Volunteers for GIS data collection, initial surveying
- Community contacts
Trail Maintenance and Development Trail Volunteers - Volunteers for maintenance and new trail construction - to be coordinated through the Cumberland Trail Conference
Future Development
- Visitor Center Planning
- Architectural design
- Interior design
- Visitor Center exhibit research, planning, and design
- Fundraising
- Volunteers for Visitor Center staffing, grounds maintenance
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