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"Serving our Youth, Protecting our Prairie Earth"
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Dear Friend of Great Plains Restoration Council,
Here are three of the latest updates for your Great Plains Restoration Council. Thanks for making a difference, and thanks for being part of GPRC's growing Ecological Health movement to save and restore our endangered prairies as a matter of physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health for all people.
-The Staff, Crew and Board of Great Plains Restoration Council
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Introducing Your Health Outdoors™, an opportunity for everybody to get outside and help the prairie and their own health
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Want to step away from your desk and refresh your soul and body with some good hard work helping GPRC save and restore the prairie?
Due to strong interest from the general public, Great Plains Restoration Council is now unveiling its third program Your Health Outdoors, where you may join us for a day of Ecological Health prairie and health restoration in Texas or New Mexico working shoulder-to-shoulder with our Restoration Not Incarceration or Plains Youth InterACTION crew members and staff.
Students from the University of Tennessee - Chattanooga recently traveled to Houston and joined us for a day of invasive species removal at Esteban Park. '
Students from Spelman & Morehouse Colleges in Atlanta are planning an Alternate Spring Break for 2013.
This week in Santa Fe County, New Mexico we are hosting a work day for several foundation executives and local community people in support of the Gunnison's prairie dog reintroduction site and some needed arroyo erosion protection at the Galisteo Basin Preserve
Please contact Great Plains Restoration Council for new opportunities that will begin after Labor Day 2012. Thanks!
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Esteban Park update
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Pierre and Alex working on a coastal prairie interseeding transect at Esteban Park, Houston, TX. Esteban Park is a close-in Ecological Health demonstration park currently in its second year of restoration.
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Thanks to the invasive species removal and ground prep work done with UT-Chattanooga, Pierre and Alex and GPRC staff were able to interseed the front prairie section of Esteban Park. We planted 41 different (and locally sourced) native Coastal Prairie plants including Seacoast Little Bluestem, Horned Beaksedge, American Aloe, Giant Coneflower, and more.
Much work remains to be done on this urban demonstration/education park in southeast Houston. We are supporting the ancestral native plants that had lain dormant in the soil for so many years like Rattlesnake Master, Maximillian Sunflower, Slender Gayfeather, and Snow-on-the-Prairie, and which began to appear after the choking canopy of invasive Chinese tallow trees (over 1,000 grown Chinese tallow trees were chain-sawed down) and other exotics were removed.
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Earth Day Dallas 2012 was a huge success, thanks to Trammell Crow's leadership and vision
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Young visitors to Earth Day Dallas 2012 visit a public demonstration at one of the more than 500 exhibitor booths.
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In just two years, Earth Day Dallas has grown to be the one of the biggest Earth Day festivals in the country. Attendance this year grew by over 10,000 from the first year.
GPRC thanks Trammell Crow and the whole Earth Day Dallas Team for creating such an important and positive event for North Texas.
At Earth Day Dallas, Great Plains Restoration Council engaged with citizens from all over North Texas in support of the Fort Worth Prairie Park, and we look forward to welcoming new Preservation Committee members from the east side of the Metroplex.
While the preservation effort continues and is called the Fort Worth Prairie Park because it refers to a specific ecotype of native tallgrass/mixed grass prairie that was once 1.3 million acres strong (now down to only several thousand wild acres), this rare preservation park is a grassland preserve for all of North Texas (and people everywhere).
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GPRC North Texas: Theresa Mayo, Lisa Morgan, and
Fort Worth Prairie Park Committee Chairman Greg Hughes.
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