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"Serving our Youth, Protecting our Prairie Earth"
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| December 2010
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 | Dried December virgin grassland and the wild bull buffalo within the Fort Worth Prairie Park. This remnant virgin prairie is still safe, and still functioning as a wild ecosystem, after 4 and a half years! Early December, 2010, Fort Worth, TX.
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We now have three park preservation areas, the Fort Worth Prairie Park, the Oglala Prairie Preserve in South Dakota, and the brand new Esteban Park coastal prairie restoration site in inner city south Houston. We're especially proud of the Fort Worth Prairie Park, where the reintroduced buffalo are allowed to live completely natural lives as wildlife on this beautiful prairie, without any human interference at all. I can't tell you how much it means to see such peace and health on the prairie.
This work will only grow. Our success has only happened because of you.
GPRC's Ecological Health approach of taking care of your own health through taking care of our shattered prairies and plains produces tangible hope and work, as well as personal understanding of endangered prairie ecosystems, whereas before people didn't even give a thought to prairies (let alone the critical health they provide for our own lives and existence).
Stay tuned for even more news as we all prepare for a productive and exciting 2011. Together we have a lot more work to do, including nudging the National Park Service to finally complete the acquisition of the Oglala Prairie Preserve as an expansion of Badlands National Park.
Please consider a year-end donation to the people and wildlife of Great Plains Restoration Council, so that both may continue to thrive in vitality and health.
And if you happen to be in one of our prairie park project areas, please give us a call. We'd love to give you a tour of our Ecological Health parks in person.
Thank you very much, and best wishes for the Winter Solstice and Holiday Season.
 Jarid Manos Founder & CEO
Great Plains Restoration Council
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 | | GPRC Crew Member Danielle Daniels showing off Texas Swamp Sunflowers and 6 foot tall Little Bluestem grass on a high-quality remnant patch of critically endangered native coastal prairie we are working to save adjacent to our new Esteban Park. Houston, TX. |
 | | "The Audacity of Hard Work". GPRC "Restoration Not Incarceration" Staff and Crew. Open Park celebration of Esteban Park coastal prairie restoration site, Oct. 23, 2010. Houston, TX. |
 | | Calvin Glenn, GPRC Restoration Crew Member in remnant native coastal prairie. Esteban Park, Houston, TX |
 | | Harris County Attorney Vince Ryan gave the keynote speech at the opening of Esteban Park, GPRC's brand-new coastal prairie restoration park. GPRC extends a big thank you to Pastors Rudy and Juanita Rasmus of St. John's Downtown for the generous donation of the land, as well as Houston Endowment, Powell Foundation, Trull Foundation, the Jacob and Terese Hershey Foundation, the George and Mary Josephine Hamman Foundation, Mrs. Cyrene Inman, Banner Foundation and others for their outstanding financial support. |
 | | Sunset refecting over the Fort Worth Prairie Park "sea". In a world of sadness and chaos, moments of silently thunderous beauty... Fort Worth, TX |
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This work has occurred because of your generous support, for which we are immensely grateful.
Please help us continue toward that time of health, peace and renewal by considering a donation to Great Plains Restoration Council today. Your tax-deductible gift goes straight to our important work.
http://www.gprc.org/makeadonation.html
Please also pass this email on to any of your friends and family.
Thank you very much for caring - from all of us out here in the land of sun, wind, grass and blue sky.
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