Nonprofits flock together: Fontenelle Forest buys Raptor Recovery Nebraska
Source: Omaha World Herald
By David Hendee
Fontenelle Forest is taking another wild thing under its wing.
The conservation organization, perched in woods above the Missouri River in Bellevue and Omaha, is acquiring Raptor Recovery Nebraska, an organization that cares for injured and orphaned predatory birds.
The bird rehabilitation and education unit will be known as Fontenelle Forest's Raptor Recovery. The deal broadens Fontenelle Forest's horizons westward and keeps Raptor Recovery's program flying.
Laura Shiffermiller, executive director of Fontenelle Forest, said the arrangement is a milestone in the organization's 100-year history and will raise its profile across Nebraska by tapping into Raptor Recovery's statewide volunteers and educational programs. The two nonprofit organizations share similar missions.
FULL story at link.
Read more: http://www.omaha.com/article/20130620/NEWS/706209913/1685#nonprofits-flock-together-fontenelle-forest-buys-raptor-recovery-nebraska
This is huge news in the bird world. Many DUers know Marta and I are bird people. Fontenelle Forest is on the other side of our backyard fence.
Fontenelle Forest is one of Nebraska's oldest conservation organizations and is one of the largest private nature centers in the nation. Fontenelle Forest Nature Center in Bellevue and Neale Woods in Omaha preserve nearly 2,000 acres of forest, prairie and wetlands along the Missouri River.
Also see this news from yesterday: Watershed project slows erosion in Fontenelle Forest: http://www.omaha.com/article/20130619/NEWS2001/706199907/1120#watershed-project-slows-erosion-in-fontenelle-forest
http://www.fontenelleforest.org/
We can see this wetland from our deck and dinning room. It is not the river.
The recovery center link: http://www.raptorrecoverynebr.org/
http://www.raptorrecoverynebr.org/lib/webframe/gallery/displaypicture.asp?PictureID=20&Image=l
