Amazonian Ecological Preserve Foundation Forums http://www.amazonianpreserve.info/forum This is an XML content feed of; Amazonian Ecological Preserve Foundation Forums : Last 10 Posts Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:36:49 UT Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:29:01 UT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 8.01 30 www.amazonianpreserve.info/forum/RSS_topic_feed.asp Amazonian Ecological Preserve Foundation Forums http://www.amazonianpreserve.info/forum/forum_images/weblogo.gif http://www.amazonianpreserve.info/forum A.E.P. General Announcements : Home page has been updated http://www.amazonianpreserve.info/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=64&PID=179#179 Author: bafrye
Subject: Home page has been updated
Posted: July/22/2008 at 3:29pm

Our home page has been updated with current information on our Mission Statement, Goals and Objectives.]]> Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:29:01 UT http://www.amazonianpreserve.info/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=64&PID=179#179 A.E.P. General Announcements : January 2008 Trip http://www.amazonianpreserve.info/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=63&PID=178#178 Author: bafrye
Subject: January 2008 Trip
Posted: December/26/2007 at 4:07pm

Nick Grumbine, Elizabeth Radovics and myself will be making a trip to our preserve.  This will be my 4th trip.  I am always amazed at how much I learn on each trip.  The goals of this trip are to get Maria, our secretary in Manaus, hooked up to the internet.  We presented her with a computer on our August 07 trip.  We will also be looking into a well for the Laguna property.]]> Wed, 26 Dec 2007 16:07:55 UT http://www.amazonianpreserve.info/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=63&PID=178#178 Open Board : Website update http://www.amazonianpreserve.info/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=62&PID=177#177 Author: bafrye
Subject: Website update
Posted: December/26/2007 at 4:03pm

I would like to thank Randy for volunteering his time to update our website for us.  We really appreciate your efforts!

Edited by bafrye - March/07/2008 at 2:40pm]]> Wed, 26 Dec 2007 16:03:41 UT http://www.amazonianpreserve.info/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=62&PID=177#177 What is the Amazonian Ecological Preserve : A.E.P. Accomplishments http://www.amazonianpreserve.info/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=33&PID=175#175 Author: docnag
Subject: A.E.P. Accomplishments
Posted: February/08/2007 at 7:21am

Accomplishments for 2006

At the Preserve Headquarters, we have completed many projects during the last year.

      1. The headquarters house has been completed. Our staff has been safe and comfortable.
      2. The poarch around the headquarters has been constructed and the roofing has been applied. There is now a wide 8 foot, rain and sun protected area that surrounds the Headquarters house.
      3. A deep water well has been dug and installed. This well will insure that fresh water is available to our people, even in the worst drought conditions.
      4. Caretakers staff for the preserve has been replaced. We now have a functioning and cohesive staff that supports the goals of the Amazonian Ecological Preserve. The new staff has been trained to protect, foster and continue the traditions of the Preserve. We had to discharge three of our former caretakers, for eating turtle eggs, burning to clear, and the killing of an endangered species.
      5. The raised walkway and bridge has been constructed and made level between the two housing structures. It is now an animal-park like setting when you view the Headquarters.
      6. The FARINHA house has been purchased and is operational. The growing of the yucca root is awaiting harvest for 2007.
      7. We have 8 wild green parots that stay with us all year around. There are four small, one medium and three large parots with us. The birds love to share in ur food and live in the fruit trees along the raised walkway. They love the shelters that have been built to protect them from the elements. The children of our staff love to teach them to talk. What a chatter there is at times. These birds will come up to our table while we are eating and join in our food.
      8. The Animal species in the preserve area have increased in numbers. There are three pods of the BOTO, the freshwater pink dolpins that now come in to Leandrinho,our river. Their presence indicates that there is a good supply of health fish in our region. The numbers of the scarlet and blue Macaws have continued to increase. There are now three species of monkeys that now roam the Preserve area.
      9. There have been o new lumbering in the area of the Preserve. The lumber poachers have not damaged more of our section of forest.]]> Thu, 08 Feb 2007 07:21:32 UT http://www.amazonianpreserve.info/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=33&PID=175#175 A.E.P. General Announcements : New Years in the Amazon - 2007 http://www.amazonianpreserve.info/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=61&PID=174#174 Author: docnag
Subject: New Years in the Amazon - 2007
Posted: January/16/2007 at 9:23pm

New Years in the Amazon,

Elizabeth and I were accompanied by Elizabeth Montgomery, Bobbette Frye and Jacob Jewette. We all returned from our adventure in the Amazonian safely Saturday morning 1/13/07. We were all tired and had some jet lag, but shared a marvelous adventure. We had two people who were sick at the end of the trip with gastritis.

The first day was traveling and the second was spent sight seeing in the Amazonia Capital, of Manus on the Rio Negro. This city has three million people in the middle of the Amazon rain forest. All supplies come by boat or by air freight. The third day we spent preparing for the trip and the four hour bus ride to the city of Itiacoatiara where we were to meet the River Boat, "Tche". We stayed in the Amazonian hotel in Itiacoatiara the night of 12/28/2006 and then spent the next day in the markets preparing for the trip. We went to the open air farmers market, The meat market packing house and the market for stable goods. We had the boat loaded by four o'clock p.m. and left down the Amazon to the preserve. We traveled all night and arrived at the Preserve 12/30 right after dawn.

We stayed at the Preserve headquarters on the Igarape Leandrinho thru Wednesday, January 3,2007. New Years was a blast with our carpenter and his family, locals, cartakers, foreman, captain and crew, Maria and 5 Amazonian Ecological Preserve members. We had a Island barbaccue style dinner cooked burried in the ground.

We left for the Laguna Property in the early morniag before dawn and arrived in the town of Jabote in the early afternoon. We were traveling athe the begining of the rainy season and the river was still low. The captain had to be careful not to run aground on a sand bar as we approched Laguna. We found a small natural cove that was going to be the new port for the Laguna headquarters. There we planned the location of the ramp, lodging locaaation for worker and the location for a permanant headquarters and housing site. The housing site was cleared and staked for future construction.

We now had time to relax and hike in the forest. We located the stand where trees had been felled by poachers. The Timbers were still present and we were to use that lumber for construction. THe lake so good and the fish were jumping. We started trolling and zing, there was a hook-up of a Peacock Bass, about five pounds. We caught and released many fish that day, with the biggest one being about 10 pounds. What a fisherman's paradise.

We returned on Sunday, 1/07/07 to the Leadrinho headquarters. Before we returned home we traveled one hour above the Laguna property. There at the large bend in the Rio Jatapu was a turtles' sandy beach that was several hundred feet long around the point. There was a deepened pool that was aganst a stretch of cliff across the river. The pool was so large and there was a pod of the pink dolphins [boto] playing. There was several groups of scarlet Macaws in the upper canopy trees on the mount. The parrots were flying from hill top to hill top with the dolphins porposing below. What a picture!!

That night we arived in the Preserve headquarters after dark. We stayed for several more days in there and left on the 9th of January to return to Itiacoatiara. We arrive on the 10th in time to catch the afternoon bus back to Manaus. Thursday, the 11th of January was spent in the Manaus Hotel across from the Opera House. what a view. What and adventure!!


    

Edited by docnag - January/16/2007 at 9:26pm]]> Tue, 16 Jan 2007 21:23:18 UT http://www.amazonianpreserve.info/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=61&PID=174#174 Open Board : Preserve Headquarters http://www.amazonianpreserve.info/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=60&PID=173#173 Author: docnag
Subject: Preserve Headquarters
Posted: January/14/2007 at 5:37pm

Modifing the Headquarters Water Well.

The water pump that was installed in August required 12 amps. When the generator from the river boat was used there was plenty of power to run the pump. The pumb was not able to be powered adaquately with the preserve generator. We either had to purchase a new/more powerful generator or a less powerful pump motor. We decided to purchase a less powerful pump motor and trade the receintly installed motor. Even though the pump motor was almost brand new we were only only going to get a used trade-in for the pump. A new pump was ordered to match the existing generator and would be installed within the next few weeks. The location of the new headquarters in Laguna will need to have a new well built and a larger generator could be used in the new facilities to be constructedduring the next yeat.
    
    

Edited by docnag - January/14/2007 at 5:39pm]]> Sun, 14 Jan 2007 17:37:41 UT http://www.amazonianpreserve.info/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=60&PID=173#173 Open Board : Animal Watch. http://www.amazonianpreserve.info/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=57&PID=172#172 Author: docnag
Subject: Animal Watch.
Posted: January/14/2007 at 1:27pm

New Years 2007

The animal observations during the December 2006 - January 2007 were very encouraging. There was the pair of Tucons observed in their roosting tree with two other tucans [probably off-spring]. There was a flock of 15-20 Tucaonettes perched in the canopy trees behind the headquarters house that spent most of their day and at night roosted there.

At the enterence to our Igrape Leandrinho, there was a very tall tree that was fruiting. There, during the day the Blue Macaws were feasting. They had formed a flock during the day of more than 25 birds in the tree. We could see the pairs and their one or two off-spring flying into the flock in the morning when we were fishing. At sundown the Macaws would leave for their roosts in pairs with their off-spring in groups of two, three,or four. There was an immence chattering in the tree. When they left to roost, the Macaws would call back and forth as the flew to their roosts. The Scarlet Macaws were seen flying to their roosts in the evening. There were six groups of the scarlet Macaws flying with two pairs, three triples and one quartet.

The pair of Harpy Eagles was seen soring off at the edge of the preserve.

There were several groups of monkeys present in the preserve. There were two groups of Howler monkeys in the preserve. One group was directly across from the headquarters and the second group was across river behind the island. These two groups seemed to howl at each other. While hiking in the forest along Igrape Adam, we had spotted a large group of small monkeys that did not have a pre-hensile tale, which we had not seen in the preserve before. We could the hear the Spider monkeys in the upper canopy behind the preserve, but we did not visualize them.

The pink dolphin [Boto] was present in three pods. There was a pod that hung out in front of the headquarter much of the day and would frolic. There was a pod in the Igrape Adam and one pod in the Igrape Elizabeth.
    

Edited by docnag - January/14/2007 at 1:31pm]]> Sun, 14 Jan 2007 13:27:55 UT http://www.amazonianpreserve.info/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=57&PID=172#172 A.E.P. General Announcements : New Years in the Amazon - 2007 http://www.amazonianpreserve.info/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=61&PID=171#171 Author: docnag
Subject: New Years in the Amazon - 2007
Posted: December/24/2006 at 10:31am

Our New years trip to the Preserve.

Our tip will begin on December 26, 2006. Elizabeth and I will be traveling with several of our Foundation members and friends. Gayle Montgomery, our vice chairman, will be making her forth trip into the Amazon Preserve. Bobbette Frye, our Director of Education, will be making her second trip to the Preserve. Jacob Jewett, our web master, will be making his initial trip. We have again chartered the riverboat "Tche" for our travels on the river. We will be accompanied by Maria our secratery. Tonie our Newest employee, Ivo our Captain/foreman and Romeo, our photo Journalist. The boat is well equiped to travel in comfort with the airconditioned cabins for everyone. Those who want to rough-it can sleep in the hammocks.

We will arrive in Manaus, Brazil on December the 27, 2006. We will be spending 2 days seeing some of the local sights and some jungle north of the big city. There should be some waterfalls that we will visit that are on a tributary of the Amazon river. We will be scouting the Plaza area around the Opera House for a Manaus Headquarters. We will travel to Itaicoatiaria on the 29th. We will arrrive at the Preserve Headquarters on December 30, 2006. We will celebrate the New Years at the Preserve, under the stars.

We will be planning the developement of the New preserve headquarters at the Laguna Property. we will travel to Laguna and spend some time in the Village of Jabote after the 1/4/07. We will be planning the lay-out of the new headquarters and the eco-tourist center that is to be developed. We will be returning to the Big city and will depart fom Manaus on January 12, 2007.

Details will follow when we get back.]]> Sun, 24 Dec 2006 10:31:45 UT http://www.amazonianpreserve.info/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=61&PID=171#171 Open Board : Preserve Headquarters http://www.amazonianpreserve.info/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=60&PID=170#170 Author: docnag
Subject: Preserve Headquarters
Posted: October/28/2006 at 8:43am

Moving Our Headquarters.
 

The Headquarters for the Amazonian Ecological Preserve will be moved from the Leandrinho Igrape to Laguna our Property. The move will be started after New years 2007. We will be transporting the equipment and structures and tools to the Laguna Igrape. The Laguna property is private property and is not within the jurisdiction of the Uatuma Reserve that is now controlled by the Lumber Cartel. We will keep the present headquarters as an outpost but will move the headquarters to the Laguna property.    

Edited by docnag - January/14/2007 at 5:24pm]]> Sat, 28 Oct 2006 08:43:05 UT http://www.amazonianpreserve.info/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=60&PID=170#170 A.E.P. General Announcements : August 2005 - Amazon Preserve Trip http://www.amazonianpreserve.info/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=46&PID=169#169 Author: docnag
Subject: August 2005 - Amazon Preserve Trip
Posted: October/11/2006 at 8:24am

August 2006 - Preserve Trip
 
The trip to the preserve was from august 22 2006 - September 2, 2006.
Elizabeth an I were accompanied by Ivo - our Foreman, Maria - our secretary ans Celio - a new employee candidate who would be building in the Laguna Section of the Preserve. We sent 2 days looking over the Laguna site.
 
The trip had as its main goal - to dig a deep water well at the Preserve head quarters site. There was a drilling crew of six men and a foreman who traveled to the preserve with us. The well was dug by hand to a depth of 120 feet. The drilling to six days. The well pump was placed to form a waterfall until a tank tower was installed. The waterfall water was plumped out of the ground from the purest drink water that was 65 degrees. The water would take your breath away.
 
Everyone enjoyed the waterfall. The children and the big kids [adults] enjoyed the refreshing experience. Everyone took at least 3 showers a day just to be refreshed.
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