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Thank you everyone for your support and kind words. I was very humbled. Your very welcome and it was an honor for me to serve as a spokesperson for our cause. It is an honor for me to be Part of the NAPgA association. I am preparing a full after action report along with the press article to our president Larry and senior board member Charles Jennings. Thank you Saph for keeping us posted. Lots more to come I have some ideas that I'm bouncing off Charlie and Larry be I need to follow out chain of command. More to come. Thank you again everyone.
" Long Live The Pack Goat".
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Hey, Goatpacking Friends! I just got off of the phone with my friends at KSL Outdoors, the Saturday morning outdoor radio show in Salt Lake City! They were curious about why the Forests are trying to ban goatpacking and wanted to know more. They were eager to learn more about what we do and why we do it, and asked how they could help. KSL Radio, 1160AM and 102.7 FM has a very large listening audience! I told them that their listeners could help us best by donating to our site at
www.GOFUNDME.COM! So they recorded our segment and it will be aired either this Saturday or the next!
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Fabulous news!
(04-07-2014, 05:03 PM)vigilguy Wrote: Hey, Goatpacking Friends! I just got off of the phone with my friends at KSL Outdoors, the Saturday morning outdoor radio show in Salt Lake City! They were curious about why the Forests are trying to ban goatpacking and wanted to know more. They were eager to learn more about what we do and why we do it, and asked how they could help. KSL Radio, 1160AM and 102.7 FM has a very large listening audience! I told them that their listeners could help us best by donating to our site at www.GOFUNDME.COM! So they recorded our segment and it will be aired either this Saturday or the next!
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That IS awesome! Great job!
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NICE! First Curtis in the paper and now you on the radio! Whos going to cover the tv slot?
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How about I contact our local TV station to come to the rendy and we can all talk about this. They also post their segments online and reach a bunch of outdoor people.
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I think that is an EXCELLENT idea. Many people have no clue that the Forest Service plans to shut the Forests to goatpacking. Our attorney suggested recently we we need to be doing as much "PR" work as possible, getting the word out to newspapers, radio stations, TV, etc.
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Excellent idea!
(04-08-2014, 04:29 PM)deschutes dawn Wrote: How about I contact our local TV station to come to the rendy and we can all talk about this. They also post their segments online and reach a bunch of outdoor people.
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This is a very critical time RIGHT NOW for goat packing. With all that is going on right now in Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, Oregon and Washington we need to respond very Aggressively before June 15th and even sooner for the other states. How we navigate the next two months is extremely important. Let's work the problem and make this happen. The future of goat packing is hanging by a thread at this very moment. Let's talk about what we did at the Rendy What else can we do in the next 30 days?? I want to do Moore but I just don't know what. Give us your thoughts.
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What Curtis says is well worded and Spot on.
I have always felt that the goat packing community is some of the nicest, most thoughtful, generous people on the planet! Thanks to ALL of you for donating your time and/or money to this worthy cause!
NAPgA has a financial goal of raising $85,000 between now and July 4th to put into our NAPgA Account, in order to have the funds to go to Court and help the Forest Service realize that we are all very serious about our desire for freedom to continue to have access to our National Forest Lands. (Boy, that was a LONG sentence!)
This is not an ego trip for any of us in pursuing this direction. We just want to be able to implement NAPgA's Best Management Practices and show the Forest Service that we are responsible Goat packers. I for one am certainly willing to Highline, to use GPS Collars on the Alpha Goat (when in Core Bighorn Sheep habitat), etc. I just want my access to all areas of the Forests, and you all do as well.
I would invite you to donate whatever possible to the GOFUNDME site, AND Post the GOFUND ME LINK on EVERY social media page you can think of. FaceBook, Twitter, ALL of your Email addresses in your address book. I have, and you can also in a courteous and respectful fashion. Merely iinvite them to consider donating, or ask your friends if they know ANYONE who could donate even $5 or $10 or $20 to our campaign.
Folks, NAPgA has generated over $2700 in the last 6 days, just on the GOFUNDME site! Larry has also received close to $2000 in the last week in checks! WE CAN DO THIS!
We have received from VERY generous donations recently, THANK YOU!!!!
But think about it....if we had 8500 people donate $10 each, we can reach our goal! WE can do this IF we tell our friends and family members. Tell your local Veterinarian. Like Curtis said, the future of goatpacking is literally hanging by a thread at the very moment. Let's not leave any of our efforts on the table, you nor I want to have any regrets. We want and need to do our best in this.
After talking with Curtis King over the weekend, I was very appreciative of the cordial and respective nature of the USFS personnel that he encountered at the public meeting that he attended in NAPgA's behalf. We all (and I will too) need conduct ourselves in a similar fashion. Take the high road, so to speak, in our interactions with USFS personnel. I believe that they really care about the survival of Bighorn Sheep. We do too.
Thanks again to all of you for your passion to keep the Forests open.
Charlie Jennings, Land Use Chairman
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