Be sure to turn in your volunteer hours!
Why should BCHU members/volunteers keep accurate time sheets and work description records?
At the national level BCH of America uses the volunteer hours records as a basis of indisputable interest and use to promote new legislation and new laws to protect and promote stock use in National Forests, National Parks and Wilderness Areas throughout the United States. At the State level, BCH of North Carolina uses the volunteer hours from all the State Chapters to promote new State legislation and laws to protect and provide recreational stock use in North Carolina. The volunteer time sheets are proof of the use and interests of North Carolinians, in the recreational use of equines and pack stock. In the Uwharrie National Forest, these volunteer time sheets have a large impact on the equine community. Volunteer time sheets collected after every project and the totals are submitted to the Forest Service annually. These various volunteer hours and task descriptions are assigned a dollar value by the Forest Service. These dollar values are uses in several ways, the first use is as matching funds for currently non-motorized funded grants, the second as dollars spent in the forest for equine trails, camps, etc. by the Forest Service (the tracked dollar amounts create a larger budget for equine infrastructure), and third these volunteer hours and dollar amounts are used to apply for new grants to target the equine infrastructure in the Uwharrie National Forest, the fourth and possibility the most important is that the volunteer hours show the Forest Service our efforts and dedication to working with the Forest Service staff to keep Uwharrie National Forest open to equine/stock users. If you have any question on filling out the BCHA timesheet, please e-mail or call one of the BCH of Uwharrie officers. To print and email or mail volunteer form, click here. 2023 - 2024 BCH of NC Volunteer Hours |