Help native plants take root at the Grand Canyon after the Dragon Bravo Fire.
Join us August 4 − 7, 2026 on the north rim of Grand Canyon National Park.
In 2025 the Dragon Bravo Fire burned 145,504 acres across the north rim of the Grand Canyon. Staff at Grand Canyon National Park are working around the clock to rebuild infrastructure at the park and to help the land recover from this devastating fire.
We need volunteers to help native plants gain a foothold in the burn scar. Trust volunteers will pull invasive non-native plants, collect native seeds, and plant native seeds. Revegetating these burned areas will help control erosion and restore native plant life and wildlife habitat on the North Rim, an essential step in the area’s long-term recovery.
Location Arizona
Contact Lena Bain
Open to Everyone
Trip Rating Moderate
Topics Grand Canyon, Native plants, Restoration
Who can sign up?
We encourage everyone who is excited about conservation on the Colorado Plateau to sign up for our trips. Our trip ratings will give you an idea of the physical work, terrain, and accommodations involved. This trip is rated as moderate.
Many of our trips are family friendly! Please see our FAQs for more information or email us with questions about particular trips.
Membership is optional, but we ask that participants who are comfortable financially become members of the Grand Canyon Trust with a $25 donation. Members receive a subscription to our biannual print magazine, The Advocate. Please contact us if you have any questions. You’ll also need to submit your volunteer application form to secure your spot on the trip.
What to expect
We’ll fuel up with coffee and breakfast in the mornings and then spend the day pulling weeds, planting native plants, and collecting native seeds. We’ll return to camp in the evenings for free time, appetizers, dinner, and stargazing. We’ll hear from a Grand Canyon National Park partner and Trust staff about conservation work and ways to stay involved after the trip. On the last day, we’ll break camp, pack up, and head home.
Accommodations
We will be car and tent camping at a campground at the north rim of the Grand Canyon. We will have access to composting vault toilets and drinking water. The Trust provides a camp kitchen. Park entrance fees will be waived. More information will follow in our pre-trip emails.
The Trust provides: All meals, water, snacks, field equipment, tools, and training.
Participants provide: Personal transportation to Grand Canyon National Park, individual camping gear, coffee mug, lunch container, work clothes, work gloves, wide-brimmed hat, sunglasses, rain gear, and clothes for hot days and cold nights. Please come prepared.
How to sign up:
- Select “SIGN UP,” and follow the prompts.
- Check your email for further instructions.
- Send in your volunteer application form for the year.
- Become a member of the Grand Canyon Trust.
- A Trust trip leader will confirm your spot.
Questions? Email volunteernow@grandcanyontrust.org
Trip packing list
Our gear list will help you prepare. We can loan some items on a first-come, first-served basis. Contact us for details.
Frequently asked questions
Curious about logistics, the food you'll eat during the trip, or the difficulty of the field work? Check out the frequently asked questions.
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Public health considerations on volunteer trips
Our top priority is the safety and comfort of our trip participants. Precautionary measures that will be followed on trips to avoid the spread of communicable diseases will be communicated in pre-trip emails. If we feel that a trip cannot be safely conducted due to public health conditions, or for any other reason, we will cancel the trip with as much notice as possible. Volunteers or participants may reach out to volunteernow@grandcanyontrust.org with any questions.
The Grand Canyon Trust is committed to justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion at every level of our work. The conservation field and the Colorado Plateau have their own histories of racial injustice and exclusion and as a largely white organization, we know we have work to do. We are actively working to make the conservation field and the Colorado Plateau more just, equitable, diverse, and inclusive. Read the Grand Canyon Trust’s justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion statement
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