Raptor Center thanks contributors

San Joaquin Raptor Rescue Center
San Joaquin Raptor/Wildlife Rescue Center
P.O. Box 778
Merced, CA 95341

The San Joaquin Raptor Rescue Center would like to take this opportunity to publicly acknowledge the tremendous support through the years provided by a small group of prominent officials and organizations.

The Raptor Center knows that this expression of gratitude for contributions to its projects and lawsuits is long overdue. The Raptor Center apologizes for its tardiness, but hopes these contributors will accept our gratitude.

First, the Raptor Center wishes to express its deepest gratitude and applause for Lowmac, who for a decade has searched local, regional and national press every day for stories indispensable for our work and has distributed these stories to us and many others involved in work that supports and is supported by the Raptor Center. Lowmac also provides a complete weekly schedule of important meetings in the county. There is no way to thank lowmac enough for the voluntary dedication and education lowmac provides daily. Lowmac’s daily clipping service has been the best news digest in the Valley since 1999.

The Raptor Center needs to express its profound gratitude to the Natural Resources Defense Council for 20 years of diligent, painstaking and protracted representation in court and in Congress in our common effort to restore the San Joaquin River and its watershed.

The Raptor Center wishes to publicly acknowledge the long-time, consistent in-kind support it has received from Cal Eggs (Rebecca Farms.)

The Raptor Center would like to publicly acknowledge the Kelsey Family, long-time Snelling ranchers, for contributions to Raptor Center lawsuits through the years. The Kelseys have never sought publicity for their contributions and have consistently dodged the limelight for their deep commitment to natural resources, environmental health and wildlife species, at this time the Raptor Center believes that the public ought to know about the Kelsey Family contributions. The Raptor Center also thanks the Kelsey Family for gifts from its bountiful harvests through the years – the Clementines.

The Raptor Center expresses its gratitude to Merced County Planning Commissioner Cynthia Lashbrook, for her contributions to help fund lawsuits the Raptor Center has undertaken. Although Commissioner Lashbrook’s commitment to the Merced environment and farmland has been manifest for years, the Raptor Center hopes that our acknowledgement will add to her fine reputation.

The Raptor Center wants to thank the Merced County Farm Bureau Board of Directors for its outstanding contributions to projects and especially to lawsuits through the years. It has been a great relationship and we sincerely hope it will continue for many years to come.

The Raptor Center expresses its gratitude to several members of the board of directors of the East Merced Resource Conservation District for contributions to projects and legal funds through the years. The EMRCD has labored long and hard for the good of the natural resources in eastern Merced County.

The Raptor Center is grateful for the financial support it has received through the years from the Peninsula Community Foundation of Palo Alto.

The Merced Fish and Game Club has generously contributed to the Raptor Center for many years and the Center wishes to express its deep gratitude to its members.

The Raptor Center realizes that these select individuals and groups are only a handful among the many who contribute to its work on behalf of the natural resources of Merced County. From time to time, we will publish more names of other contributors. We hope, by publishing these short lists, to give proper, public acknowledge for all the quiet, unheralded work these fine, public-spirited and concerned citizens have done behind the scenes to help protect our environment and wildlife species in Merced County.

San Joaquin Raptor Rescue Center
San Joaquin Raptor/Wildlife Rescue Center
P.O. Box 778
Merced, CA 95341

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