What we are Doing,How are we Doing it,What You Can Do To Help,About Donations
What
we are Doing.
What we are trying to do here is to help raise awareness
to both the Kermode Bear and the Grate Bear Rainforest. In doing this we
will be helping to save them both. This is important to me in many ways. I
remember the first time I saw a picture of the Spirit Bear I just felt
that I needed to be involved in helping to save this animal and the land
where it lives. So I started "get the word out" and talked to
people about the Spirit Bear and had planed to go on a trip to photograph
the land and the Bear. Well that after a while lead to this page. As much
as my ego would like to say that I personally saved them it simply would
not be the truth. The Rainforest in that area is being clear-cut EVERY DAY
and as bad as it sounds even while you read this we are loosing trees that
have stood for hundreds of years, we are loosing land that is needed to
support the Spirit Bear, and we are loosing shade to cool the streams that
the Salmon spawn in. Once it is gone it will take a long time (if ever) to
get it back.
First of all get the word out! That is what I hope to do with this web page. Things like this can be won or lost based on simply how many people get talking.
We need people to help with Writing E-mail or snail mail letters to the companies and people involved in making the choices on what to do with this land. To do this people need to know where to send the letters and why. I plan to give people that very information.
The web page also provides a place where people can be kept up to date on what is going on. This is also something that we will provide.
What is also needed is a place where others can go to get information on what is happening, If all a person can do is talk about the problem at the water cooler at work or general chat at home then by all means do it! We will provide the more in-depth information or at least a link to it so others can check it out on there own time.
We also plan to set up trips to go and get the photographs, film, ect. to get the word out.>
There are many other ideas that we have to help in this cause and will be adding to this web page.
What
can I do to help?
Donations
, buying stuff If you buy
something from this site where dose the money go? The money that is received when you buy something or
through donation goes back into this site, the trip, or for other products
to be offered. I'm not receiving any pay for doing this and all people
working directly are not getting paid it is all volunteer work right now
with some exceptions. EXCEPTIONS!?! Exceptions would be in cases of people helping out. A
good example of this would be if someone offered to drive part of the trip
group to a location then they could receive money for gas, or someone
offered to print the T-shirts for free but needed money to buy the actual
shirts, things of that nature would be exceptions. An offer dose not mean
that there would be pay involved. The pay if any would have to be
discussed and worked out by both groups before a service would be
excepted. But you can feel safe with the fact that all money donated goes
back into this project. I don't honestly feel that at this time there is any
need for a paid job with this project but this may change in the future if
the need arises. What we keep in mind though is that every dollar that
goes out to pay someone is a dollar that is gone and could of maybe been
used in a better way. Right now this site is a personal site. I hope to get
this into a non-profit site but I want to get things going on saving the
Spirit Bear first as that is the goal here.