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GHETTO PLAINSMAN
"Path to redemption and healing... a journey into the devastation engulfing one man and our sacred, shattered Earth."
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What You Can Do:
(Doing any of these will help. Pick and choose as you wish!)
- Become a member of Great Plains Restoration Council at www.gprc.org, helping build the Texas, Colorado and South Dakota efforts.
- Help spread the word about the critically-endangered Fort Worth Prairie Park tallgrass prairie ecosystem, a hidden national treasure that will either be bulldozed in the next few years or saved to form the nation’s first large-scale urban prairie wilderness complex based on Ecological Health principles. GPRC is in need of all skill sets, and lots of financial support, as we work to set up a permanently protected system of core reserves and corridors stretching from the Fort Worth Prairie Park to the Western Cross Timbers.
- Form your own local or online GPRC support group, raising awareness and money to help further GPRC’s specific programs in positive, creative ways.
- Sponsor a GPRC Plains Youth Inter-ACTION child for a year.
- Adopt a Prairie Acre though our website, so GPRC can build and expand its prairie/plains reserves where acquisition is needed. This is particularly crucial and time-sensitive because the 65 or so remaining buffalo descendents of the Great Southern Herd in West Texas are stuck on 330 fenced acres in Caprock Canyons State Park and losing their ancestral herd culture and behavior.
- Help build GPRC’s new “Restoration Not Incarceration” program which will provide good outback jobs, training and work experience, counseling and support, and character development for ex-offenders (and those on their way to the joint if they don’t get their act together) who are seeking to stay out of prison.
- Donate restoration supplies, from fencing to vehicles to solar power systems to work tools and more.
- Donate professional services and skill sets, from GIS mapping to marketing and communications to green building, donor relations and much more.
- Volunteer for restoration work projects.
- Insist that the U.S. Forest Service stop poisoning prairie dogs on our national grasslands.
- Insist that industrial wind energy corporations a.) carefully site new turbines away from bird and bat migration paths, b.) don’t build new roads to reach new turbine sites unless absolutely necessary, and c.) for every square mile of wildlife habitat that is sliced and strung up by their roads, transmission lines, turbines, etc., they protect an equal square mile as unfragmented wildlife habitat.
- Visit local communities on the Great Plains that are making efforts to restore, connect and permanently protect wild native grasslands. Your nature tourism dollars will support the local economy of these hard-working, good-hearted people. See www.gprc.org for a list of recommended places, or contact us at the office.
- Get out and hike under our big sky where possible, move your physical body with the Prairie Earth, experience the beginning rebirth of a land that America wiped out, wrote off and forgot.
- Call your U.S. senators and congressional representatives to advocate for a first-ever Great Plains National Park, which can be accomplished in three units by upgrading federal national grasslands in South Dakota (Buffalo Gap National Grassland), Colorado (Comanche National Grassland), and Texas (Rita Blanca National Grassland). These are already public lands, and it will help stop the poisoning and killing. Park Service grazing lease buyouts will be more than fair to the handful of usually-subsidized cattlemen, and still save U.S. taxpayers much money. Set up advocacy groups around the country to push for this. This is something the people of this country need to take the lead on. GPRC has its hands full.
Things you can do to help the whole Earth:
- Educate and engage youth in Ecological Health and positive environmental action.
- Become vegetarian. Whether combating global warming, wildlife slaughters, water pollution, or desertification of the biosphere, eating less or no meat is one of the most immediate, powerful things you can do to help save the Earth.
- Insist on the rapid advancement and implementation of solar energy for every city and town in America.
- Fight Nature Deficit Disorder! Ensure that children everywhere – absolutely including inner city and low-income youth – are reconnected personally and physically with the natural world, and given meaningful roles to help heal and protect living ecosystems.
- Lastly, each city and town across America should create and connect their own large, urban wilderness areas on undeveloped as well as restorable lands, using conservation biology principles and conservation design. Embrace your region’s unique ecological identity; in this way you can work to make sure that native wildlife have refuge, the waters are clean, and people have personal belonging, responsibility and solace where they live. Then, work with neighboring municipalities, non-governmental organizations and private individuals to further connect these reserves where and however possible.
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