5.4.07

Hello, Friends.

Recent Media: Boulder’s Women’s Magazine did a full-page feature on RMAD, covering numerous aspects of the organization while focusing heavily on the involvement of recent RMAD additions Lynne Sprague and Kris Candour. Pick up a copy and let us know what you think! Colorado Hometown News quoted Dave Crawford about the prairie dog killings at 95^th and Arapahoe; RMAD joined local citizens in calling for Lafayette to stop the killing of prairie dogs within town limits. The Boulder Daily Camera also provided RMAD’s perspective in an article about the probable killing of prairie dogs by Boulder city staff during road work at the Foothills/Arapahoe intersection.

Summer Support Needed for Field Study: RMAD has received a grant to study Boulder open space lands to determine their availability and suitability for prairie dog relocation release sites. We keep being told “there’s no room” but we are skeptical; this is our chance to find out for ourselves. Three or four students will be in town for two weeks this summer, probably in June. We need to provide them with lodging and a vehicle. If you have any ideas, suggestions or offers, please let us know. Thanks!

Volunteer Pippi Howard (who also maintains RMAD’s fantastic MySpace page) has organized a Rocky Mountain Animal Defense work party this weekend at Peaceful Prairie Sanctuary. The volunteer slots are already full, but stay tuned for more opportunities in the future.

Calling all volunteers! Please join us Wednesday, May 16, from 10am to 8pm for an RMAD mailing party. Come whenever you're free and stay as long as you'd like. Our mailing parties are fun, and in addition to offering a valuable service to RMAD, you'll have the opportunity to meet other advocates and hang out with the coolest AR staff in the West. Food and drinks will be provided. For more information, please contact Kris Candour or call the RMAD office 303-449-4422.

If you can’t make the mailing party but would like to get involved, please see our Volunteer Opportunities below. Lots going on, and lots of chances to help.

If you missed Marc Bekoff’s Boulder event, don’t fret – he will be speaking about his new book, The Emotional Lives of Animals, at the Tattered Cover in LoDo (Denver) on Saturday, May 12 at 2 p.m. More info on this book and Marc can be found here. This will be a great event! Please attend if you can.