Great Plains Restoration Council “Serving our Youth, Protecting our Prairie Earth.”
Great Plains Restoration Council “Serving our Youth, Protecting our Prairie Earth.”
Great Plains Restoration Council is a 501(c)3, multiracial, multicultural, Ecological Health non-profit organization building the Buffalo Commons step-by-step by bringing indigenous prairies back and restoring healthy, sustainable communities to the Great Plains. From the Indian reservation to the prairie inner city to the High Plains outback and beyond, GPRC brings people together to establish creative, effective solutions that enhance and respect our natural environment, native wildlife, human communities, and the health and dignity of all people. GPRC places a major emphasis on building strong Ecological Health leadership in our youth. Our three mains programs are: Fort Worth Prairie Park Initiative, Plains Youth Inter-ACTION (Texas and South Dakota), and Cynthia Ann Parker Wilderness.
GPRC became a non-profit in October 1999, and is headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, with additional operations in Thunder Valley, South Dakota on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
Great Plains Restoration Council was founded out of the awareness that the violence that people do to each other mirrors the violence that people do to the Earth. GPRC works to bring people of all colors, cultures and communities together to help heal themselves through healing the Earth. Based in Fort Worth, Texas, with an additional office on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, GPRC is the main founder of the Ecological Health movement, which is the next evolution beyond Environmental Justice, and defined as
“the interdependent health of humans, animals and ecosystems.”
By blending social work with ecological recovery protection, GPRC works to heal both social and ecological devastation at the same time. Through its award-winning Plains Youth InterACTION program, inner city and American Indian youth leaders work to protect and restore new prairie wilderness, and learn to take care of their own health and that of our communities at the same time, all interconnected.
GPRC has so far protected three major preserves on the Prairies and Plains of America: 4600 acres adjacent to Badlands National Park in South Dakota, 12,000 acres in West Texas, and 2,000 acres of critically endangered urban tallgrass prairie wilderness in Fort Worth, TX.
