Jarid Manos
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Jarid Manos is an author, speaker, environmental activist and founder and president of the Great Plains Restoration Council. He is author of Ghetto Plainsman (2007).
He has been described as "an ex-drug dealing gay black person of Moorish descent who is currently an environmental activist."[1]
According to an article and interview with Manos in 2008, as a child he "dreamed about buffalo, prairie dogs, and the Great Plains, even while he dealt drugs on the New York City streets", then lived in Ohio, and was eventually inspired by the idea of a Buffalo Commons. [2]
An environmental advocate for more than fifteen years, Manos is a frequent contributor to the Fort Worth Weekly and has been published in or has been written about in numerous magazines and newspapers.
in 1999, Manos was executive director of the Great Plains Restoration Council and was president of the Southern Plains Land Trust. The Southern Plains Land Trust, based in Boulder, Colorado had purchased for $198,000 a 1,280 acres (520 ha) property for receiving relocated prairie dogs, and was involved in controversy with Baca County, Colorado landowners. the controversy rose to consideration by the House Agriculture Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives.[3][4]
In 1997, Manos, then 33 years old, living in Pueblo, and executive director of the Rocky Mountain Animal Defense, was convicted of hunter harassment while acquitted of criminal trespass, in a civil disobedience lawsuit. Manos and six other protestors had been arrested on July 5 "for disrupting a prairie dog shoot on private property".[5]
His book Ghetto Plainsman was warmly endorsed by bestselling author E. Lynn Harris (1955-1999) before Harris died.[6]
Published works
- Ghetto Plainsman (2007)
References
- ^ Angela Carstnsen (May 20, 2011). "Ghetto Plainsman". School Library Journal.
- ^ Madeline Ostrander. "Life Reclaimed: After growing up amid violence and harassment, Jarid Manos found a way out for himself and for troubled youth—restoring prairie ecosystems". Yes Magazine.
- ^ Michell Dally Johnston (25 Feb 1999). "Dog relocation may not have a prairie Panel votes to let counties ban moves". Denver Post. p. A-14.
- ^ Jarid Manos (22 Jan 1999). "Guest Commentary: Grasslands the front in new war". Denver Post. p. B-07.
- ^ Sheba R. Wheeler, Denver Post Staff Writer (19 Nov 1997). "Activist gets split verdict Protest staged over prairie dog shoot". Denver Post. p. B.03.
- ^ Jeff Rivera, Entertainment Reporter (January 5, 2011). "Jarid Manos' Ghetto Plainsman". Huffington Post.
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