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Great Plains Restoration Council has had 15 years of success helping people, prairies and wildlife. When we first started, America had largely forgotten about its devastated and Prairie and Plains region. We were simply "flyover country".
Over these years we have been methodically building "a new culture of caring". All of this work is laying the groundwork for a larger national expansion of the Ecological Health movement in coming years.
We have succeeded with your support. And we need you as much as ever as we prepare for 2015. Some of our campaigns, like the Fort Worth Prairie Park, are reaching a critical juncture.
Will you please make a year-end donation today so that we can ensure pristine prairies are protected, damaged prairies are restored, prairie wildlife like prairie dogs, buffalo and the endangered Monarch butterfly migration have safe places, and youth and young adults from all walks of life are able to support their own education and health through taking care of the Earth?
2014 Year in Review - Great Plains Restoration Council
Fort Worth Prairie Park, Fort Worth, TX
In Fort Worth, TX we have kept the virgin tallgrass Fort Worth Prairie Park, critical to the monumental Monarch butterfly migration, alive for over 8 years even as it faces new threats by multimillion dollar development interests.
Galisteo Basin Preserve, Santa Fe, NM
In Santa Fe County, NM, on the ecotone where the High Plains meets the Southern Rocky Mountain Foothills, we have just completed and capped several years work to establish the first-ever Gunnison's prairie dog town reintroduction on the 13,000 acre Galisteo Basin Preserve.
Saltwater Country, Texas Gulf Coast
On the "Saltwater Country" of the Texas Gulf Coast, our Restoration Not Incarceration™ crew completed our first contract with The Nature Conservancy and removed over 15,000 highly invasive Chinese tallow trees so that a rare patch of native coastal prairie could breathe. We did this by hand so important wetlands and native biodiversity were spared all-out assault by aerial spraying. We are working to establish Restoration Not Incarceration™ as a go-to agency for critical ecological restoration on the coast and second-chance transitional jobs and training for ex-offenders, intersecting coastal prairie protection, climate change resilience, and social needs.
Esteban Park, Houston, TX
In Houston, TX we're now creating the ecological farming gateway to Esteban Park, a new urban park of health and nature offering three intersecting experiences: entryway organic farm, bayou savannah, and coastal prairie that connect people with the health of our bodies, lives and the land. This new urban park, named after Esteban the Moor, the first African in Texas, who washed ashore with Spanish conquistadors in 1528, is in conjunction with St. John's Downtown United Methodist Church.
Oglala Prairie Preserve, Badlands National Park, SD
And the 4,600 acre Oglala Prairie Preserve, adjacent to Badlands National Park in South Dakota, acquired years ago in partnership with Wildlands Restoration Corporation, ensuring buffalo, ferrets and prairie dogs have refuge and wild prairie important to the Oglala Sioux Tribe is protected, is still pending inclusion into the National Park System. But over these years it has been kept safe from prairie dog killing clubs and poachers.
All of these successful efforts are establishing "a new culture of caring" on America's devastated prairie heartland region, and with your support we are able to not only continue our vital on-the-ground efforts but springboard Ecological Health education to help people in other ecosystems around the country.
Please donate today. Thank you for your support. Your contribution helps us get this essential hard work done. Together we demonstrate on-the-ground hope, breathing new life and strength into nature and people.
Best wishes and health, from all of us out here in the land of sun, wind, grass and blue sky,
Jarid Manos
Founder & CEO
Great Plains Restoration Council
P.S. If you have already donated, please pass this on to a friend or family member. Great Plains Restoration Council can't do this work without the support of people like you. You may also donate online right here, or mail a check to:
Great Plains Restoration Council
PO Box 1206
Fort Worth, TX 76101
www.gprc.org
All donations are tax-deductible. Thanks again!
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