This web site has been
produced by naturalist/writer
Jim Conrad. At present this site
is all that exists of the Loess Hills Project. There is no cooperation with any
organization of any kind, and other than some of Jim's
personal
friends and a few
specialists who have contributed
much-appreciated help here and there, no other people are presently involved in this
project.
At this early moment in the Loess Hills Project
history, then, this web site is offered as a skeleton of a potentially much greater, much
more interesting and valuable site that can come into being with your help. Our present
goal is to find others willing to contribute their creativity, time and effort to this
project. And that includes finding someone to sponsor it (probably an
institution) and someone to take over much of the site's main production responsibilities.
Here are the kinds of individuals being sought:
- Someone to help coordinate the whole site. This person should have
fair computer knowledge. Jim can quickly teach this person how to add to and maintain this
Internet site by using an FTP program.
- Individuals willing to be responsible for gathering and organizing
material relating to certain fields of interest, such as the Loess Hills'...
- history
- archeology
- folklore
- botany
- zoology
- ecology
- geology
- hiking trails
- biking trails
- backcountry roads
- Someone to make the site look better and easier to use -- a graphic-artist
person
- Someone to find funding for this site, or an organization who will
take it over -- a political type of person
- Someone to develop a Loess Hills Land Trust/ Conservation Easement
Program, and to convert this into a legally non-profit organization -- an attorney-type
person
- Someone who will promote the site as a learning resource -- a teacher-type
person
- Someone who will promote the site as an information resource for
potential visitors to the area -- a promoter-type person
This site will not be turned into a commercial concern. At
some point we may accept nominal fees for advertising local attractions such as
bed-and-breakfast offerings, riding stables, and the like, but these fees will be set at
rates only high enough to cover our costs. So far all work on this site has been
done for free. In short, we promise that eventually we shall not make money off of work
done by our contributors.
In review, here is an outline of the project's goals:
Establish this web
site..................
Find people to maintain & enlarge it..... BEING DONE
Promote the Loess Hills internationally.. FUTURE GOAL
Anyone interested in assuming any of the above responsibilities
should email Jim