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RE: Prairie Promoter

The Prairie Enthusiasts also have a website:
http://www.prairie.pressenter.com/

Patrick Daniels



-----Original Message-----
From:	owner-prairie@mallorn.com [owner-prairie@mallorn.com] On Behalf
Of John Bauman
Sent:	Monday, September 28, 1998 2:32 PM
To:	prairie@mallorn.com
Subject:	Re: Prairie Promoter

For information about The Prairie Enthusiasts including The Prairie Promoter
newsletter, the
address to write to is: The Prairie Enthusiasts 10052 CTH C  Woodman, WI
53827.  Walter Mirk is
the managing editor and his phone number is 608-988-4760.

John Bauman

Alan_Rider@ILLINOVA.COM wrote:

> Can you provide an address or phone number on the Prairie Promoter to get
> in touch with them?
> ---------------------- Forwarded by Alan Rider on 09/28/98 12:09 PM
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>
> Please respond to prairie@mallorn.com
>
> To:   prairie @ mallorn.com
> cc:    (bcc: Alan Rider)
> Subject:  Welcome from a Texas subscriber
>
> Dear Grasslands People,
>
> Ilya, welcome as our (first?) international grasslands subscriber!
>
> Your email reminded me that "The Prairie Promoter" (newsletter of the
> Prairie
> Enthusiasts in Wisconsin and neighboring areas) in its winter 1995 issue
> ran a short
> article about the Central Asian and South Aferican Grasslands.
>
> In essence, it said that although only small remnants of North America's
> tallgrass
> prairie remain pristine, there are still wide expanses of grasslands in
> China, Russia,
> Kazakstan, and Mongolia, and the eastern highlands of South Africa BUT
they
> are losing
> ground and that economic and social pressures (of course) are
overshadowing
> conservation
> needs. They said that overgrazing and the planting of cereal crops are the
> primary
> problems for the steppes, as well as sheep farming.
>
> The International Crane Foundation is working in Asia also because cranes
> depend on
> grasslands. You may have this already, but here's their homepage:
> www.baraboo.com/bus/icf/whowhat.htm  and their email address is
> cranes@baraboo.com
>
> The editor of the "Promoter" printed the names of two people working on
> steppe and veld
> grasslands and encouraged readers to get in touch, to be supportive and
> encouraging
> because it can be hard and lonely work in a country with a harsh economy.I
> didn't have
> email at the time, and had just in the last couple of days remembered that
> article and
> thought to get in touch. I love coincidences.
>
> Ilya, I suppose you know Dr. Oleg Goroshko of the Daurski Nature
> reserve-where Russia,
> Mongolia and China meet?  He is establishing a tri-national nature reserve
> for the
> steppes.  His email is chita@glas.apc.org.  Address is Box 50, Nizhniz
> Tssuchey, Chita
> 674480, Russia. "The Promoter" reported that he was short of many basic
> needs to
> continue his work, including receiving regular paychecks.
>
> Also, they included a contact with the South African Veld, Ms. Elna Kotze
> (Wakkerstroom
> Natural Heritage Association), PO Box 223, Wakkerstroom 2480, South
Africa.
> No email at
> the time, but a phone number 27-013-339-233. She heads a program to
> establish a
> Grasslands Biosphere Reserve in South Africa. Perhaps she can help you get
> such a
> program going for the Steppes? United Nations money may be available for
> it.
>
> Also the International Society for Ecological Restoration is meeting here
> in Austin this
> week.  I believe next year's conference will be in Liverpool, England.
Does
> a subscriber
> have their email address handy? These folks could be very helpful.
>
> Welcome again.  It's very nice to hear from you.
>
> Lee Stone
> Austin, Texas
>
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