In 2008 you will have ample opportunities to get more involved in helping animals.
Help Collect Signatures
If you live in Alaska, Colorado, or North Dakota, we need your help to gather signatures for potential ballot initiatives aimed at:
• Stopping aerial wolf hunting in Alaska
• Ending cruel farm animal confinement, such as battery cages for chickens in Colorado
• Stopping canned hunting in North Dakota
Make Your Opinions Heard
In all eight Northern Rockies states, you can help promote animal-protective legislation by sending e-mails and making phone calls. In Colorado, contact Holly Tarry at Htarry@hsus.org, for all other states, e-mail slee@hsus.org.
Support Our Field Work—in Person or with a Donation
We also have some openings to participate in upcoming Humane Society Veterinary Medical Association veterinary clinics in Colorado, North Dakota, and South Dakota. Other field projects in Wyoming and Alaska need both hands-on participants and financial sponsors. These special projects include helping wild horses and improving the lives of dogs in our Habitat for Hounds program.
Please contact us if you want to become involved in these or other upcoming projects or download our online Volunteer Form to fill out and send back to us.
Reach Out to Classrooms
The HSUS has a model humane curriculum in the form of KIND (Kids in Nature's Defense) News, produced and circulated by the youth division of The HSUS. The HSUS mails student and teacher packets to schools with timely topics on issues kids love.
At last count the Northern Rockies Region was far behind others in the number of classrooms being reached through KIND News. The NRRO would like to reach our goal of providing these teaching tools to every teacher who asks for them.
We are looking for people to sponsor single classrooms, groups of classrooms, or even entire schools. Just $25 per classroom will provide nine months of material for as many as 30 students and their teacher. There is no more cost-effective way to offer upbeat humane education to our children. Please contact NRRO's Sylvia Lee at slee@hsus.org to learn how you can sponsor a local or native nation classroom.
Updated January 14, 2008
