Grasslands Awareness Project-Official Launch

This past Tuesday evening at The Lodge Conference and Retreat Centre in 100 Mile House, the GCC in partnership with myself, officially launched the Grasslands Awareness Project. The goal of the project is the creation of a major BC publication on the Grasslands of British Columbia. The presentation included a power point presentation describing the grasslands from a global perspective to that of the grasslands in B.C. This was followed by the feature presentation on the grasslands of the Cariboo-Chilcotin which included a slide-sound show. The evening was also a fundraising event. The response was overwhelming. One lady offered to initiate an artists retreat in the grasslands which is to end up as an exhibit to promote the project. A gentleman volunteered to be an official fundraiser for the book project while yet another gentleman offered to sponsor a 500 mm IS telephoto lens in order to capture the endangered birds and animals which depend entirely on the grasslands. There were many other donors as well and they are being rewarded with a tour to the grasslands with a grasslands ecologist and myself. All-in-all it was a most encouraging evening...a great one for the grasslands and for the book project as well. Thank you so very much from all of us.

Comments

[Barrie Bolton]

A great evening presentation by all involved. I hope to see the grasslands projects brought to the level of importance the deserve. Se you some time over the next weeks. Barrie Bolton