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Hmm... dessert contest... that idea seems to have come from our open house event in april last year.... maybe there should be categories of vegan and standard recipes to spur even more diversity.... good luck... k

sjchaplin at sbcglobal.net wrote:  IT'S ABOUT A BAT!

WHEN: 4 p.m., Sunday, March 11, 2007

WHERE: Rudyard Kipling Restaurant, 422 W. Oak St., Louisville (502) 636-1311

WHAT: An evening with Kentucky Heartwood.

LINK TO FLYER: http://www.precisionavrecording.com/Tree-Huggers.pdf

Kentucky Heartwood, the state's leading public lands protection citizen's group, on Sunday, March 11, will mark the 40th anniversary of the Indiana bat's listing as an endangered species with a day of education, activism and arts at Louisville's Rudyard Kipling Restaurant in historic Old Louisville. The Indiana bat has been on the Endangered Species List longer than any other creature. 
The Indiana bat once numbered in the millions. Then in 1967, as its numbers fell to only 1 million, it joined the American Bald Eagle as species first listed on the Endangered Species Act. Now, 40 years later, the bat is more endangered than ever, its numbers have fallen below 400,000 and scientists and politicians admit there is heavy pressure from big business to have it de-listed.

A newly-revised recovery plan for this species is expected to be released any day and Kentucky Heartwood needs you to be prepared to act, especially if there is an attempt to diminish this important mammal's standing in the face of its dwindling population.

EDUCATION

Learn how new methods for counting bats now being developed by scientists commissioned by your government are designed, they admit, to lead to the bat's de-listing. That action would open up new lands in the Daniel Boone and Hoosier National Forests for logging, road-building and mining.

"Let me play some statistical games," said a scientist working on the new calculations for the U.S. Department of Fish and Wildlife. "There is a fair amount of pressure to take this species off the list.This is commerce."

Meet David Cooper, a Gandhi of the Appalachians who for years has been traveling the country advocating for an end to the most environmentally destructive business practice in the United States, mountaintop removal coal mining. David will present his Mountaintop Removal Road Show.

ACTIVISM

Network with activists working on issues like mountaintop removal, sustainable communities and public lands protection, hear the best reasons for protecting the Indiana bat, other federally-listed endangered species and plants and animals that face threats from global warming, logging and pesticide spraying.

Consider opportunities to take part at various levels in campaigns to stop the largest logging project ever proposed in the history of the Daniel Boone National Forest and to help protect the Indiana bat and other endangered species living in the Boone and the Hoosier National Forests.

ARTS

Louisville's renowned poet and songwriter Ron Whitehead, along with partner and acclaimed mountain songstress Sarah Elizabeth, will highlight an entertainment bill rooted in respect and reverence for nature. The evening's performances will begin with Relic, a four-piece Bluegrass band based in Louisville, and end with a SouthXSouthwest Festival send-off concert by Secretly Canadian recording artists The Broadfield Marchers.

AND THERE'S MORE..

Donate a pie, bake a cake or come prepared to make a donation to Kentucky Heartwood to participate in a homemade pie and cakewalk fundraiser that will include desserts from Louisville chefs, state fair blue ribbon winners and other sweet-toothed personalities.

FOR MORE INFORMATION, TO VOLUNTEER or DONATE FOR THIS EVENT, call 606-356-6551, 812-331-1475 or email sjchaplin at sbcglobal.net.

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