April 2009
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Mark Your Calendar: Fort Worth Prairie Park,...
GPRC Fort Worth Youth are working on restoring native tallgrass prairie to the pipeline cut at the Fort Worth Prairie Park this Saturday, April 4. Volunteer opportunities are available for the public, as this will be a large, ongoing project.
February 2009
3 posts
Tuesday March 3, 2009
Ittleson Foundation Funders’ Breakfast NYC 8;30-10 a.m.
Feb 13-21, 2009
Houston Endowment just completed a fact-finding trip through the Texas Plains that included visits to GPRC West Texas project areas, as well as to Fort Worth, where they observed a Youth InterACTION session and later visited the Fort Worth Prairie Park. Out at Caprock Canyons, State Park, GPRC secured agreement on release of the first three buffalo bulls for our new 12,000 acre Cynthia Ann Parker...
Saturday, Dec 19, 2009
Plains Youth InterACTION Christmas Party 6-9 p.m at GPRC headquarters., sponsored by Judge Maryellen Hicks.
November 2008
2 posts
GPRC Youth InterACTION Fort Worth kids will travel...
GPRC Youth InterACTION Fort Worth kids will travel to the Fort Parker site in Limestone County, TX Saturday November 15th, where Cynthia Ann Parker was born, and taken from her Anglo family to live with the Comanches. (Cynthia Ann is the namesake of GPRC’s new 12,000 acre project in West Texas).
On Saturday we will learn and understand the start of Cynthia Ann’s story, the frontier...
October 2008
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Fort Worth Jaycees and GPRC have agreed to a...
Fort Worth Jaycees wants to help raise $5.5 million within the next 6 - 8 months toward this goal, $5 million which will go toward direct acquisition of this endangered prairie tract, and $500,000 of which will go toward GPRC’s programs and efforts in support of the Prairie Park and its emerging Ecological Health movement.
The public is enthusiastically encouraged to participate in this...
September 2008
3 posts
FORT WORTH PRAIRIE PARK HIGHLIGHTED AT...
PRESS RELEASE September 21, 2008
For Immediate Release Contact:Coletta Strickland (817) 838-9022 or info@grpc.org Great Plains Restoration Council
FORT WORTH PRAIRIE PARKHIGHLIGHTED AT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCEGPRC
Youth Leader Kabongo “KB” Kabuta (age 17) and Jarid Manos to speak FORT WORTH, TX - Fort Worth Prairie Park - Our own “Prairie Rainforest”, a 1,983...
U.S. needs a Great Plains Trail, by GPRC Board... →
By Scott Wails,
Deborah Popper
and Frank Popper
PRINCETON, N.J. — Our country has 26 National Scenic or Historic trails that draw visitors from everywhere. The tourist or native can hike, say, the Appalachian Trail in the East or the Pacific Crest Trail in the West, savoring the Shenandoah Valley or the Sierra and Cascade mountains. Or they can explore the Gulf Coast on the Florida National...
Jarid Manos speaking at Unity Church, September 14 →
Jarid will be the guest speaker at Unity Church on Sunday September 14.
August 2008
1 post
June 2008
5 posts
Back to Nature and Ready for Guests in the Great... →
New York Times Article By JOSHUA KURLANTZICK Published: June 8, 2008
Unity Church to tour Fort Worth Prairie Park, June 7th, 2008
Sundance Channel: PEOPLE OF COLOR DON’T CARE ABOUT... →
“People of Color Don’t Care About the Environment.” Unfortunately, you’re likely to hear this dismissive comment far too often among lawmakers and media types—and even from some environmental activists. Fortunately, it’s not true.
MIT TechTV Remaking Environments →
Restoration and Remediation as Solutions?
See the video PART 1 and PART 2
Panelists: Brian Donahue, Jarid Manos, Kathryn Morgan, Jae Rhim Lee
Moderator: Dale Joachim
Friday, April 11, 2008
April 2008
2 posts
60 Oglala kids to venture to Harney Peak sacred...
Thursday, April 17, 2008 - This Thursday, 60 Plains Youth InterACTION kids in the GPRC-Thunder Valley youth leadership development program will travel from Pine Ridge Indian Reservation to Harney Peak where they will learn firsthand the cultural importance of this Lakota Sacred Site. Understanding Lakota cosmology and the ancient places of importance to Lakota people are part of the participatory...
Jarid Manos speaking at MIT
GPRC’s CEO Jarid Manos speaking at MIT, Friday April 11 at the “Disruptive Environments: Academics, Activists and Journalists in Conversation at the MIT Museum”
February 2008
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Saving the Wide-open Prairie →
Environmentalists want to keep power transmission lines out of a pristine Fort Worth park
January 2008
2 posts
UTA Grad student project on prairie preservation... →
Please join us in congratulating a multidisciplinary team of UT Arlington graduate students who have won the Student Project Award from the Midwest Section of the Texas chapter of the American Planning Association. Download the Prairie Park Report
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Creating a prairie park primer →
December 2007
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GPRC Founder, Jarid Manos, speaks at National Park... →
NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION LEADERSHIP SUMMIT ON PARTNERSHIP AND PHILANTHROPY Authors Forum - PERSPECTIVES ON PARKS AND PLACE Changes in place can affect us like nothing else. Understanding the significance of our nation’s most treasured places and the way they can influence our society is paramount to their preservation. Some of the parks’ great storytellers discuss how the individual...