Become a Community Representative 

Volunteer to educate your community and help your neighbors figure out how to identify and remove invasives. No experience needed!

Fairfax PRISM community representatives lead their communities in the following capacities: 

  • Educating the community about the importance of controlling invasive plants and adding native plants

  • Accessing and disseminating resources for invasive plant control

  • Maintaining a relationship with Fairfax PRISM through reports on efforts

  • If able and interested, helping to coordinate invasive removal efforts and native restoration


To support you, we will provide the following:

  • Ideas for doing outreach to your neighbors

  • Networking opportunities with other community reps and invasive experts

  • Expertise on invasives

  • Planning assistance for community events

  • Presentations and links to resources about invasives and invasive management

  • Training to run an invasive removal project, if requested

  • Access to invasive management equipment and supplies

To learn more, fill out this volunteer interest form.

Area Representatives

Area Representatives help the Community Representatives collaborate with each other. They work with the Community Representatives as a team to strategize about how to reach and assist all the area’s landowners wherever invasive plants are problematic. To volunteer as an Area Representative, fill out this interest form