[tn-bird] Whooping Cranes Need Help
- From: John Devereux Joslin <jdjoslin@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: TN-Bird <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 16:17:33 -0400
Whooping Cranes over Tennessee Needs Your Help!
WHO IS ?WHOOPING CRANES OVER TENNESSEE??
In preparation of the return of the whooping cranes in the fall of 2002,
volunteers have joined forces to start ?Whooping Cranes Over
Tennessee?. This is an event designed to promote the protection and
create a source of joy and pride in the ?ultralight aircraft led
Whooping Cranes? when they migrate over Tennessee. An
educational/outreach effort will be conducted at schools, civic
organizations and various clubs along the migration route to inform
students and other members of the public about this endangered bird and
how its return will have a positive impact on our home state.
Event organizers are busy arranging a public ?walk-a-thon,? which will
closely mimic the flight path of the young Whooping Cranes as they exit
Kentucky and enter Tennessee just west of highway 127 and eventually
leave our state passing east of Chattanooga before crossing into
Georgia. The walk will be Olympic torch style with a ?symbolic Whooping
Crane? being passed from one walker to another at various checkpoints
over the walking course. This fun and exciting event is scheduled to
take place during the week of October 11 ? 20 and will finish in
Chattanooga with a festival in the park planned for walk participants
and the public.
HOW CAN YOU HELP?
?WHOOPING CRANES OVER TENNESSEE?? NEEDS:
1. Someone to solicit walkers to help walk the route.
2. A ?walk-leader ?: someone who can take the volunteers, assign a
pre-determined portion of the route to be walked. Ensure that the
walkers get their t-shirts, sufficient water (which has been donated
already), and other necessary support things.
3. Contact civic organizations, clubs, etc. to whom we can make
presentations.
4. Someone to give presentations (we will have a ?canned? presentation
prepared within three weeks)
5. Someone to coordinate and ?manage? fundraiser(s). Perhaps it could
be a per-plate type sit down dinner. We can help get a speaker to draw
a crowd (perhaps sell corporate tables). There are several options for
the speaker.
6. An event coordinator. This person needs to take items 1 ? 5 and make
sure they are coordinated and get accomplished.
Last year Chattanooga TOS was able to raise $8,500 at a dinner/speaker
event for the Sandhill cranes.
The goal of the fast approaching ?Whooping Cranes Over Tennessee? event
is to make Tennesseans aware of a history making Whooping Crane
reintroduction program, which began in 2001 and will continue for the
next 10-years. Funding is desperately needed for the success of this
project. Proceeds raised will go to both the Tennessee Wildlife
Resources Foundation (TWRF) and the Whooping Crane Eastern Partnership
(WCEP). The Whooping Crane Eastern Partnership includes the
International Crane Foundation and Operation Migration, Inc., both of
whom are non-profit organizations as is the Tennessee Wildlife Resources
Foundation and a tax-deductible receipt will be issued for donations.
The monies designated for the TWRF will be used for an educational
outreach program, habitat enhancement, and a new education facility
currently under construction at the Hiwassee Refuge in Meigs County, TN.
A permanent pen was donated and constructed in 2001 at the Hiwassee
Refuge so that during the migrations south the migration team,
consisting of pilots, and the ground crew, as well as the cranes will
stage at the refuge for up to a week before continuing south toward
Florida. Monies destined for WCEP will help fund this and subsequent
migration flights between Wisconsin and Florida and helps remove the
Whooping crane from the endangered species list.
Anyone interested in helping or learning more about this effort can
contact a volunteer at (865) 675-6132; e-mail at
whoopingcranesovertn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or sending a note to Whooping Cranes
Over Tennessee, PO Box 788, Kingston, TN 37763-0788 or by contacting
Sandra & Jerry Ulrikson, 176 Bayview Dr., Ten Mile, TN 37880, Tel:
(865) 376-1819.
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