Archives for September 2017

FINAL ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT FOR COMMERCIAL SAND DREDGING ON THE KANSAS RIVER

Final Environmental Impact Statement for
Commercial Sand Dredging on the Kansas River

The Final Environmental Impact Statement for Commercial Sand Dredging on the Kansas River was issued today.

You can read it here:  http://www.nwk.usace.army.mil/Portals/29/docs/regulatory/ksdredging/2017/2017-09-26_KS_River_Dredging_FEIS.pdf

A final RECORD OF DECISION will be issued by the Corps of Engineers and that will determine whether or not they continue to allow commercial sand dredging in the Kansas River.

We will be reviewing the Final EIS document and stand ready to continue to fight dredging on the Kansas River.  Please take the time to review this document and stay engaged.  Thank you for your support of our efforts to get these sand dredges moved to appropriately sited pit mines and out of the river bed.

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TYSON FIGHT IS NOT OVER

Tyson Fight Is Not Over
As you may have heard in the news, last Monday, September 18, 2017 the Leavenworth County Commission revoked resolution 2017-52, which determined the intent to issue $500 million in industrial revenue bonds to the proposed Tyson Slaughterhouse Project.  After the meeting, Tyson issued a letter to the Tonganoxie community and said it is putting plans for a plant on hold after Leavenworth County Commissioners rescinded their support Monday amid protests and frustrations from residents.  Read the full letter here:  https://localtvwdaf.files.wordpress.com/2017/09/open-letter-leavenworth-county3.pdf

We stand ready to see where Tyson goes now.  We believe strongly that Tyson is not welcome in the state of Kansas.  Please join us to stay informed, stay alert, talk to your local council members and county commissioners about how you feel about a Tyson Slaughterhouse coming to your town, and make your voices heard.  We will stay engaged and work to keep Kansas water healthy.
#notysonintongie #notysoninkansas

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GREAT KAW ADVENTURE RACE

GREAT KAW ADVENTURE RACE
SEPTEMBER 30, 2017

Come and watch the Great Kaw Adventure Race – this Saturday, September 30, 2017 starting and ending in Eudora!  30 miles and 14 challenges for the participants!  They run, bike and paddle the Kansas River!  FOK will be there – we are providing the canoes along with our partners at Up A Creek Canoe & Kayak Rental to all of the participants including life jackets and paddles.  Our FOK Paddle Assistants will be on the river to help as needed, our volunteers will be at the boat ramps to help with gear and logistics, and FOK will have a booth setup in downtown Eudora, so be sure to stop by!  Looking forward to seeing/meeting you all at the Great Kaw Adventure Race!
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WHAT LARGE POULTRY PLANTS MEANS FOR LOCAL COMMUNITIES AND POULTRY GROWERS

“What Large Poultry Plants Mean for Local
Communities and Poultry Growers”
Tuesday, October 3, 2017 at 7:30 PM
Flory Meeting Hall, Douglas County Fairgrounds
2120 Harper Street in Lawrence, KS
If you are concerned about the recent attempt to bring an industrial chicken slaughterhouse, hatchery, and processing plant to Tonganoxie, please join Jayhawk Audubon Society, the Water Advocacy Team, LETUS (Lawrence Ecology Teams United in Sustainability), Sierra Club-Wakarusa Group, the Kansas Women Environmental Network, Friends of the Kaw and the Kansas Rural Center for a presentation by Donald Stull, Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Kansas, on “What Large Poultry Plants Mean for Local Communities and Poultry Growers”.This talk and following Q&A session will be held on Tuesday, October 3, 2017, at the Flory Meeting Hall at the Douglas County Fairgrounds, 2120 Harper Street in Lawrence, Kansas, beginning at 7:30 pm.

Don Stull is an applied cultural anthropologist who has conducted basic and applied research throughout the United States. For the past 20 years his work has focused on the meat and poultry industry in North America, rural industrialization and rapid growth communities, and industrial agriculture’s impact on farmers and rural communities. He is the co-author of Slaughterhouse Blues: The Meat and Poultry Industry in North America, with Michael J. Broadway.