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recreation, urban/rural integration, new ways to incorporate sustainable agricultural
practices on cropland between the streams, and vast opportunities for human involve-
ment, including a lot of educational activity.
The second program envisioned is called the Prairie Plains Conservation Corps.
This will consist of a mobile stewardship and restoration crew working on Prairie
Plains lands and project areas as well as private land and doing public community ser-
vice projects. Both of these programs will become major platforms for intern and vol-
unteer action, and they will be deliberately educational in their goals. Outcomes, in
addition to the work accomplished in the field, will include building knowledge,
skills, and character in the interns and Corps members.
Conclusion
Our ecological restoration and education role in the Great Plains is critical, and the
times will certainly beg for new types of social organization, educational ideas, and
human involvement in this region and globally. I feel that society will have to return
to fundamentals, many on a local level, such as with food production. With a broad
scope of concern Prairie Plains, though vulnerable to its own set of nonprofit survival
concerns, is poised to take advantage of opportunity that may come as a result of soci-
etal change, contributing to the evolutionary process of adapting creatively to the fu-
ture. Our strategy is to hunker down and do what we can for the benefit of the global
commonwealth—encouraging people to work with nature.
