RMEF Rant

[6speed]

Thanks Fin, the tickets are 1 for $10 or 3 for $25 but the winner will be drawn Monday so I'm not sure how the transaction would work in time. If your still interested shoot me a PM and we can try to figure something out. I'll probably buy whatever I haven't sold out of my stack so I'll just write OYOA on a couple. If one wins I'll donate it to the BAYED!

 

[drahthaar]

I'm glad to see these issues discussed here. I was with RMEF from the start as a donor until they spent 6mil on the visitor center. In my eyes that's a pretty extravagant expense for something that could have been done for less and still be sufficient for the cause. I imagine some of that was donated just for that, but still,that's a lot of money that could have went to conservation.
I have been thinking about joining them or some other conservation outfit again, feel kind of guilty for not doing my part lately. No organization is going to please everybody all the time but it's good to be educated on the path they are taking.

Just so you know, nothing was taken away from conservation for that building. Through donated materials, labor, and special extra monetary donations earmarked for the building from people and businesses it was built. Regular sponsorships, banquet monies, and the like were not used for the building. Their mortgage on the new building, as I was told by one of the bigwigs there, is actually less than the rent they were paying at their former office.