Dear Friend of Great Plains Restoration Council,  

It's been a very busy year, and we have a lot of news soon. 

In the meantime, we wanted to send you these great paintings done by the youth of Alameda County Juvenile Justice Hall in Oakland, California. 

The Sharing the Journey tour is sponsored by Arcus Foundation in New York City.

The youth incorporated some of GPRC"s Ecological Health principles after GPRC founder and CEO Jarid Manos (and author of Ghetto Plainsman) spoke and worked with them through their "Write to Read" program. 

The nationally emerging ECOLOGICAL HEALTH movement is for everyone. 

These "12 Components of Ecological Health" underlie GPRC's  3 -tiered restoration process of self and environment inherent in our Life Wheel. which is used in our two programs Restoration Not Incarceration™ and Plains Youth InterACTION™. 

It's become very clear to us that there is a great gap between social and ecological organizations, and this is to all of our detriment. 

To build movement support, we have been spending a lot of time this year speaking and working with people across the country, from universities to churches to community organizations, conferences, and convocations to jails and more telling the story of our shattered prairies and plains, of the great struggle prairie dogs and buffalo and the other animal nations of the praires and plains go through each day to survive and thrive, and how we ourselves are strengthened through the process of helping them find refuge through the prairies we help heal.  

Our youth and young adults learn that "we take care of body and Earth as one" , and "by taking care of others, we take care of ourselves."

This in turn is helping build more support for our prairie parks and preserves, so please spread the word! 

Thank you for being part of Great Plains Restoration Council! 

DOWNLOAD the GPRC 12 COMPONENTS OF ECOLOGICAL HEALTH (PDF)