• Wildlife Rescue in Boulder
• SpeakUp!
• RMAD Cellphone Campaign
• Wildlife Habitat In Jeopardy
• Library Display
• Spare Change?

RMAD Events:

Wildlife Rescue in Boulder

Thanks again to the many kind souls and animal lovers who showed up last weekend when local wildlife was threatened. In case you missed it, Xcel energy has a canal on their property that they drained to do some maintenance on. Unfortunetely, they're doing this in the middle of winter when hibernating animals are most vulnerable.

During the draining, hundreds of fish, turtles, crawfish, and other residents of the canal were susceptible to freezing temperatures and disruption that the draining caused.

Volunteers showed up over several days to relocate threatened wildlife. Many RMAD volunteers as well as people from the following groups helped out:

• Colorado Reptile Rescue
• Bleating Hearts
• National Endowment for the Animals
• Prairie Dog Action
• Wild Places

Lots of questions remain: Why didn’t someone anticipate this problem? Why weren’t wildlife specialists consulted? Were environmental laws broken? What about the marsh to the south of the canal, which is predicted to go dry because of the dewatering of the canal? Who will help the wildlife there?

 We will need to get answers to these questions. And we will need to rescue more animals. We’ll keep you posted on our progress.

More articles in the Boulder Daily Camera.

SpeakUp!

(From Matt Bear, please contact him for more info)

Hello!

Do you want to become the most effective communicator for your cause that you possibly can? We all do! Whether it's talking to your co-workers, your family, outreach opportunities, the general public, the media, small groups or large groups, we want to help you break free from fear and speak thetruth with clarity and conviction.

We have room for 2 more participants and will start another group if need be. This is FREE to members of Rocky Mountain Animal Defense as a project of National Endowment for the Animals. Be an important part of the Nonviolence Revolution. Join us and Speak Up!

Next SpeakUp!
Monday January 3, 2005
7pm-9pm
CU Campus, Boulder

More info at http://www.TruthSayers.com.
RSVP to mattbear@neaforever.org (only if you'd like to attend).

Thank you!
matt :)

Matt Bear, Director
National Endowment for the Animals
"Helping those who help the animals."
http://www.NEAforever.org
mattbear@NEAforever.org

RMAD Cellphone Campaign

When RMAD needed a cellphone, people responded! Matt Bear sent out a plea asking for help to get a cellphone that we could take out on our actions and protests. Within just a few days we raised enough money to get several months of pre-paid minutes and even got the phone donated!

Thanks to everyone who pitched in and made this a very quick and very successful fund raiser.

We've left the donation link on the RMAD front page in case you didn't get a chance to contribute and would like to help out (we'll buy more minutes)!

Wildlife Habitat In Jeopardy

RMAD members continue to work to protect the wildlife habitat and prairie dog colony at 28th and Jay Road in Boulder.

The property owner, Palmos Development, wants to build a large "big-box" development there. But first, they must convince the city to re-zone and annex this county property. Therefore, it is not a sure-thing.

The city has to be convinced it's "needed." We believe it's not needed, and will be extremely detrimental as well.

On Dec. 2, RMAD activists spoke to Boulder City Council against the development, but a large number of people spoke in favor of the development, apathetic to the destruction of wildlife and habitat that developing the area will cause.

RMAD objects to:

• Habitat and Wildlife Destruction
• Urban Sprawl
• Excessive Traffic on 28th street
• Over development in a residential area
• Development where there is no compelling and immediate community need

There will be a Boulder City Council Meeting on Monday Dec. 6, although it does NOT appear that Council will be discussing or voting regarding the land.

Letters are very much needed on this issue. For a sample letter and council members' addresses, see below.

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Dear Council members:

I am very concerned about the possibility of "extending the urban growth boundary" in North Boulder, North of Jay and 28th. There is a lack of water at that site for further development, and the property is host to a large prairie dog
colony.

Palmos Construction has already killed thousands of Colorado's prairie dogs with developments. I am a resident of Boulder and do not want to see that happen here. I am sure many people in Boulder would agree with me.

I have other concerns as well, including water use, traffic and whether Boulder wants a shopping center in that location. As I drive around town I see several vacant buildings at this time. I would rather see a shopping area placed in a location that would not need to "extend the urban growth boundary.

Thank you for considering this important matter.

Sincerely,

Name
Address

Please send letters to:

Boulder City Council
P.O. Box 791
Boulder, CO 8030

Contact Information For Council Members

Library Display

RMAD members Lynee Zajac, Ann Swissdorf, Eryn Swissdorf and Sarah Zellmer put together this great library display of vegan foods for the Arvada Library public display. If your library has a display like this, please fill it with veggies! Ask your librarian for details and contact us for help in filling it up!

Spare Change?

Here's your chance to create lasting change with your spare change:

Compassion Over Killing (http://www.cok.net) will air ads promoting vegetarianism in our community on MTV for only $25 per ad. These ads have the potential to reach thousands of people—including students home on holiday break. When C.O.K. has aired these ads in the past, the visits to their TryVeg.com website have gone up substantially. And for every person who sees the ads and chooses vegetarianism, 100 animals (and an acre of trees, 1.3 million gallons of water, etc.) will be saved per year!

If you'd like to view the ads, check out: http://www.cok.net/feat/commercials.php

Barbara Bear is looking for places in Boulder to collect spare change for these adds. More details when we have some spots. Alternately, you can take your coins to a bank yourself and then mail a check made out to C.O.K. to Barbara at:

Barbara Bear
P.O. Box 1161
Boulder, CO 80306

RMAD Events:

Stock Show Protest

January 15th
11A-2 p.m.

National Western Complex, Denver.

To protest the horrific confinement, torture, and slaughter of 10 billion animals every year in the United States.

We need help with night-time leafletting and demonstrating with our body screen TVs. Please email Chris (chrisj@rmad.org) if you can help out! We'll also need people for other days and nights of the stock show.

We’ll again have some “special guests.”

Dining Out Day

Mark your calendars! January 25th is our second annual 'Dining Out Day' for RMAD.

Once again, we'll be at the fabulous WaterCourse Foods in Denver. More details as it gets closer...

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