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Happy New Year from Friends of Big Bend National Park!
National Public Lands Day is coming soon!
Make plans to visit the park the last weekend of September, so you can join Friends of Big Bend as we celebrate National Public Lands Day. We will have a welcoming event on Friday night, a volunteer event on Saturday morning and some behind-the-scenes tours designed especially for our members. Click here for an event schedule. This special weekend celebrates America’s rich heritage of volunteerism in the parks. Watch the website, as registration will be available soon.
Thanks to our event sponsors for making this special weekend happen!
GoodSearch and GoodShop
Are you on the internet every day? If so, you can help Friends of Big Bend National Park while you are doing internet searches or internet shopping.
Friends of Big Bend National Park earns a penny every time you searched the Internet from the GoodSearch website. GoodSearch.com is a Yahoo-powered search engine that donates half its advertising revenue, about a penny per search, to the charities its users designate. Use it just as you would any search engine, get quality search results from Yahoo and help Big Bend National Park while you do it! Just go to www.goodsearch.com and enter Friends of Big Bend as the charity you want to support!
The Friends also earn a percentage of every purchase you make online through GoodShop. GoodShop.com is an online shopping mall which donates up to 37 percent of each purchase to your favorite cause! Hundreds of great stores including Amazon, Target, Gap, Best Buy, ebay, Macy’s and Barnes & Noble have teamed up with GoodShop and every time you place an order, you’ll be supporting your favorite cause. Just go to www.goodshop.com and enter Friends of Big Bend as the charity you want to support!
Terlingua Abajo Trip - February 14, 2009
Join Friends of Big Bend National Park for a great cultural tour in February, led by Chief of Interpretation David Elkowitz. Spend Valentine’s Day in a place we all love - the park! Click here for details.
Welcome New Board Members!
Friends of Big Bend National Park welcomes Dennis Prescott of McGregor, Chris Thompson of Midland and Lynne Weber of Austin to the Board of Directors. We look forward to their service! We also thank those members who joined our float trip to Santa Elena Canyon. Although not our original destination, the trip was a wonderful reminder of the park’s majesty!
Big Bend Coffee Roasters Promotion:
Friends of Big Bend welcomes a new partner - Big Bend Coffee Roasters in Marfa, Texas. Big Bend Coffee Roasters will be donating 1% of its sales of the Big Blend of Texas to FBBNP. Click here to learn the details about this great promotion. You can find this coffee all over Texas, in the park at the Chisos Mountain Lodge and on their website at www.bigbendcoffee.com. Thank you to this organic, fair-trade company for supporting the park with this generous donation!