Celery Bog Good Neighbor Petition

focb May 16th, 2008

1200+ signatures and counting

SIGNATURE DEADLINE EXTENDED
Until we have a secured a meeting w/Purdue
PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION

 

Two (2) ways to provide an ONLINE SIGNATURE.

 

1) Use the Form below as a number have been doing. This works fine. We also ask you to take the opportunity to pass along this URL to your friends, asking them to read and sign the petition as well- as shown in the Tell-A-Friend section following the signature form.

2) Or, you may go to the iPetition website and sign the petition there. You will receive an email confirmation when you sign the petition that includes the opportunity for you to forward the URL to the iPetition site to as many friends as you choose - or not - to offer them a chance to read and sign the petition as well.

Whether you choose to sign-up ONLINE or IN PERSON we thank you for your support of the continued protection of the Celery Bog.Contrast/Comparison|Habitat Loss

Give Celery Bog a chance and it will reciprocate

 

Please READ the following petition, prepared by the Friends of Celery Bog, in response to the clear-cutting of the east SIDE of the Celery Bog (along Purdue Kampen Golf Course) by Purdue golf officials. Friends of Celery Bog will present all signatures in support of this - the Celery Bog Good Neighbor Petition - to Purdue University, President France Córdova, in a formalized document at the earliest date FoCB can secure a meeting with Purdue; with the intent to meet directly with President Cordova.

Therefore we ask that you - PLEASE DO NOT DELAY - sign this petition in support of the involvement of natural resource professionals in any plans affecting the Celery Bog Nature Area, its visitors and its wildlife, to ensure the long-term protection of this unique natural area.

 

Celery Bog Good Neighbor Petition

 

Dear President Córdova,

 

As members of the greater West Lafayette community, we are very disturbed by the February clear cutting of dead, dying, and live trees along the east side of the Celery Bog marsh authorized by Purdue golf course officials. The main reasons for our concern are that this action:

 

  1. destroyed excellent habitat (perching, roosting, and nesting sites) for birds and other wildlife
  2. removed the natural visual screen and sound buffer between the Purdue Kampen Golf Course and the Celery Bog Nature Area
  3. was taken without seeking input from local experts knowledgeable in wetland habitat and its wildlife ecology

The Celery Bog occupies a very special place in our community—as a public nature area, an environmental and educational center, and a birding and tourist attraction.Being a neighbor to such a unique area, Purdue has a responsibility to ensure that plans carried out by its golf course officials are sensitive to the needs of the wildlife in the area and the visiting public—the many walkers, birders, and others who come out to enjoy the peace and quiet and natural beauty of the marsh. However, Purdue’s February action disregarded these needs.Though the damage from the cutting cannot be undone, Purdue can step up and be a better neighbor now and in the future.The community asks Purdue to ensure the inclusion of Purdue natural resources professionals, West Lafayette and Tippecanoe County Parks & Recreation Department professional staff, and other knowledgeable and concerned citizens

 

  • in the development of a wetland recovery management plan for the eastern side of the marsh, and
  • in any and all future decisions affecting the Celery Bog marsh.

The community asks Purdue to ensure the adoption of the replanting recommendations for the eastern side of the marsh, made by people knowledgeable about the Celery Bog, marsh ecology and wildlife habitat at the recent March 27th meeting with Purdue Golf Superintendent Jim Scott.

Following these recommendations would give golfers some views of “open water” while restoring some of the lost habitat and natural vegetative buffer for wildlife and visitors to the Celery Bog Nature Area.

The community asks Purdue to ensure that the Celery Bog Naturalist, Mary Cutler, is given a copy of the replanting plan and updates about what is going to occur in this area so that she can make this information available to the general public and to the Friends of Celery Bog.

The community would like to see Purdue renew its commitment to being a good neighbor and environmental steward of this community asset—the Celery Bog Nature Area.

 

Yours Sincerely

 

[Signatures follow]

 

cc: Purdue Board of Trustees

 

 

 

We are ASKING for your SIGNATURE of SUPPORT for this Petition.

 

  • I hereby certify that I have thoroughly read the above Celery Bog Good Neighbor Petition, presented by Friends of Celery Bog.

  • I am in agreement with its intent and purpose and therefore submit my signature, by completing and submitting the form below, for inclusion with all other signatures collected on behalf of this petition.

 

 

Tell-A-Friend

We now have two (2) methods for you to send this URL to your friends, urging them to join you in signing the Celery Bog Good Neighbor Petition. So, please take a moment and consider using one of the following methods to forward this URL, via an email message, to at least three (3) friends asking them for their support of this petition.

We sincerely appreciate your additional efforts on behalf of the Celery Bog.

THE OLD FASHIONED WAY: Cut-N-Paste … the copy below - inserting your specifics into the bracketed areas and pasting this copy into your email tool and sending it on to at least 3 friends asking for their support.

Dear [friend's name],

I just signed a petition put forth by the newly formed, Friends of Celery Bog, promoting a better Good Neighbor policy toward the Celery Bog. Please take a moment to visit their website [http://friendsofcelerybog.org/celery-bog-petition-clear-cutting/], read the petition and consider giving your signature of support for the Celery Bog, too.

Thank you,

[Your Name]

 

AUTOMATED, FAST and SECURE Online Tool … found at the bottom of this post as -> Share This Post

  • A fast method of direct Tell-A-Friend is to make use of the SHARE THIS POST link found at the end of this message.
  • Send this URL to your friends on a number of the major email services: Hotmail, Yahoo!, Gmail, Live, AOL, Lycos and Mail.com.
  • You can choose to
    • send to all names on your list
    • or select individual email recipients.
  • You will also have the ability to send along a carefully written accompanying message with your email.
    • We urge you send along a personal message, it is a considerate action and offers greater assurance for positive action by your recipients.
  • You will also find - in the SHARE THIS POST pop-up page, the ability to type in individual email addresses without going through the more ‘mass email’ method.

We are happy to offer you a choice on which method to use. WE only urge you to pass on the opportunity of involvement in this important local issue to your friends.

NOTE: There seems to have been some confusion around the meaning of the — Comments are closed at this time — statement, in the same light-gray type and centered, formerly found at the bottom of this page.

This statement has NOTHING to do with whether the Petition is operative or closed.

This site is built on a blog format. Posting of personal opinions on a blog is a common and accepted - even expected - practice.

Even though pages are generally open to comments, to reduce (hopefully eliminate) any confusion on this matter, the COMMENT function, for this page, has been DISABLED.

We would like to hear what the readers of this blog site have to say on this matter. In the near future we will be offering a public venue for such discourse and discussion. Watch this blog for details.

Please, feel free to take this opportunity to ’speak your piece’, for the time being, by signing the Celery Bog Good Neighbor Petition.

Friends of Celery Bog Thank You for your continued support of the Celery Bog Nature Area.
FoCB

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