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California Oak Foundation, Oakland, California Further support of program to educate young people about the
importance of oak woodlands in providing habitat for wildlife and clean drinking water for Californians. A publication, A Community of Oaks, will be prepared and some 10,000 copies will be distributed to schools and
educators in California. The grant will include the cost to write, design and print the publication. $10,000.00
Ala Gales Creek Camp Foundation, Lake Oswego, Oregon Grant to support summer camp at Gales Creek, Oregon, which
provides camping experiences for diabetic children from the Pacific Northwest area. $7,500.00
National Audubon Society, Alaska
Chapter, Anchorage, Alaska Further grant to support Arctic Nesting Snow Goose Calendar Project wherein contests are
held through Eskimo and Indian schools in Alaska to teach conservation and preservation of the arctic goose and to protect their nesting grounds. This grant is a continuation of very successful prior grants.
$10,000.00
Santa Catalina School, Monterey, California Grant to develop and present an exhibit recounting the history of Santa
Catalina's first 50 years. The exhibit will also trace the activities of the Dominican Sisters in establishing and maintaining schools in California since 1850. $20,000.00
Sustrans, Bristol, England First installment of three-year grant totaling $45,000 for the support of this organization which designs and builds traffic free routes
for cyclists, walkers and disabled people. It makes use of disused railway lines, canal towpaths, river sides and other open spaces and creates routes which run through the middle of towns and cities linking
schools, houses, shops and offices with local amenities and the countryside. The grant will support programs in the area of York, England. $15,000.00
Zoological Society of San Diego, San Diego, California Further support of "Sperm Preservation in Endangered
Carnivores" project at San Diego Zoo. For the past 20 years researchers have been engaged in the collection, evaluation, freezing and thawing techniques for both sperm and oocytes of endangered
species. The Foundation has supported this program with a number of grants in the past. $10,000.00
Total
$72,500.00
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