Wed Jan 15th, 7pm "Howling for Wolves foundter Maureen Hackett speaking at Coldwater Spring, Mpls.
Hello Coldwater Supporters,
Please make the effort to dress warm and come to Coldwater to meet and hear Howling for Wolves founder Maureen Hackett MD, on Wednesday, January 15. The woman has an impressive resume, including teaching at Mayo Clinic and Wm. Mitchell College of Law, plus work in the trenches outlawing tobacco in MN hospitals and helping Audubon Society in Louisiana after Katrina.
In 2 years of wolf trapping and hunting MN has sacrificed 650 wolves. Think pelts, wildlife trophy, not meat. We’ve got too many deer, too many deer ticks, and a declining moose population with climate change . Hackett calls wolves a “legacy species” and focuses on balance.
The gas pipeline construction project just west of Coldwater is finished. Truckloads of dirt were hauled away and now we have pipeline pipes sticking up out of the ground along the frontage road and Hiawatha bike trail.
Coldwater is lovely in the quiet snow time, the water sings and we have the State Historic Preservation Office acknowledging that Coldwater is a Dakota sacred site and a Traditional Cultural Property (TCP).
Best wishes for a reasonably wonderful 2014.
--Susu
The Wolf Moon
Coldwater Full Moon Walk
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
Gather in the Coldwater Springs free parking lot, 7 pm
DIRECTIONS: Coldwater Springs is between Minnehaha Park & Fort Snelling, in Minneapolis, just North of the Hwy 55/62 interchange. From Hwy 55/Hiawatha, turn East (toward the Mississippi) at 54th Street, take an immediate right, & drive South on the frontage road for ½-mile past the parking meters—keep going through the cul-de-sac, past the Coldwater Spring entrance sign and into the free parking lot.
All welcome. Dress warm. This gathering is free and open to the public.
Howling for Wolves www.howlingforwolves.org founder Maureen Hackett http://www.howlingforwolves.org/our-purpose#founder will be the guest interpreter at Coldwater for the Wolf Full Moon.
Preventative wolf predation
Wolves are not
man’s best friend.
More family than man
wolf taught man
to sing to prey
to hunt
to eat what he kills.
It wasn’t wolf
perhaps the gods
taught sport killing
and war.
(excerpt "On Bones and Meat" S.J.)
Traditional group howl! Full Moon celebrations at Coldwater have been observed every month since 2000.
Sunset 4:58 pm (25-minutes earlier than last month)
Moonrise 4:59 pm (17-minutes earlier)
Exact minute of full moon 10:52 pm
Info: www.friendsofcoldwater.org