----- Forwarded Message ----From: ROBERT ROARK <bambooisgrass@yahoo.com>
To: bamboo-plantations@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, November 1, 2008 5:22:42 PM
Subject: American Bamboo Society Annual Meeting, In San Francisco
Hello Group: I will be at the ABS Annual Meeting on November 8 & 9, and would like to meet with anyone who wants to help form the new Plantation Chapter. We will have a poster and some information available and will be announcing the start of our effort to establish a Plantation Crop Substitution Project that will demonstrate the viability of large scale Bamboo as an alternative to other crops; most notably, Cotton, and Southern White Pine.
I have submitted the Articles of Incorporation and applied for 501- (c)-3 status, so we are now officially eligible for State and Federal Grant funding.
So please stop bye and introduce yourselves, so we can add your name to our list of ABS members who think that we should work on Bamboo Research and Development, in the USA.
I would like to hear from any ABS members who are not going to be there too, because I would like to have a long list of active ABS members to submit to the National Board at the meeting.. It takes ten members to form a new Chapter, and So far I have about that many, I think.
These people have spoken in support of the Plantation Chapter. If you are on this list, please let me know if you can still be counted as a vote to form the Chapter....you do not have to change your membership from your local Chapter, just add the Plantation Chapter to your membership ($5.00 extra/year)
Harry Simmons
Fu Jinhe
A. C. Lakshimana
Dan Nurco
Jefree Trudeau
Greg O'Neal
Lea Walters
Tina Guise
Nora Hild
Robert Roark
So, please join us and we will make Bamboo an important resource for the future.
Rob Roark
ABS Northern California Chapter
Plantation Chapter
bambooisgrass.com
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