Summer fundraising drive!
Please support our fundraising drive to help make some badly needed improvements to the field station this Fall.
For the past five years Navopatia field station has been a place where people from throughout the world come to experience and protect a truly unique part of the world. Many have come to learn science and natural history, explore, teach, and create memorable experiences.
This has all been thanks largely to you. The kindness, generosity, and grassroots support of everyone has been, and continues to be crucial to the success of the Navopatia Field Station. The field station has flourished and we are in a period of growth and have made plans to improve the infrastructure of the station. AWA and Navopatia Field Station need your help.
As many of you are intimately aware, the roof of the big palapa/common area has seen better days. Last spring, we brought two experienced palmeros from the mountains to look at the roof and made arrangements for them to come in November and make a watertight roof! This will give us a natural, beautiful, and long (decades) lasting roof. It will cost approximately 3,000 dollars.
After many years of reliable service, the trusty Suburban or la Ballena Blanca has seen its’ last Mexican back road. AWA will replace it with a strong and dependable twelve passenger van that will serve our emerging needs greatly. As many of you know a reliable vehicle is a necessity at our remote location. The cost of the van is 6,000 dollars
We also are in need of a new marine outboard motor. To effectively reach distant study sites, help aid some of our education programs, facilitate local tourism, and survey aquatic organisms, a reliable motor is vital. Also, in lieu of adding to our capacity of solar power we are planning on upgrading the batteries for our small solar array so we can continue to use the plentiful solar power. For both of these items AWA is in the process of securing and reduced price arrangements.
As you are aware, at the Navopatia Field Station we stretch every peso as far as possible. Every donation we receive is appreciated by the station and the entire community. We have received several large donations and have been challenged to raise $7000 dollars in matching funds. If you can give, or renew your membership, no donation is too large or too small.
If you feel strongly about any one of these items you can ask for your donations to go it specifically or just donate to the general fund. Thank you. For more information or questions email: navopatia@gmail.com
You can donate at our website http://www.alamoswildlands.org /SupportUs.htm through PayPal. Or a check can be sent to:
Alamos Wildlands Alliance
20226 Neat rd. SE
Yelm, WA 98597
All donations are tax-deductable.
Thank you very much!
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