Last year nearly 110,000 volunteers worked on public lands across the country on National Public Lands Day. This year National Public Lands Day is Saturday, September 27th, 2008. Save the date on your calendar and plan to get out into a national park to lend a hand.

Many national parks will be hosting projects this year and could use your help. For example, volunteers in Greenbelt Park in Maryland will work to repair stream erosion and to remove invasive species. Herbert Hoover National Historic Site in Iowa needs volunteers to help restore the 81-acre native tallgrass prairie.

To learn more about projects in a national park near you, visit www.publiclandsday.org.

The Park Service has declared National Public Lands Day a "Fee Free Day" and all National Park Service sites will offer free visitor admission on September 27th, 2008.