Jarid Manos is an author, speaker,

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and founder and president of the Great Plains Restoration Council. According to an article and interview with Manos in 2008, as a child in Ohio he "dreamed about buffalo, prairie dogs, and the Great Plains," (and then) "even while he dealt drugs on the New York City streets", and was eventually inspired by the idea of a

Buffalo Commons The Buffalo Commons is a conceptual proposal to create a vast nature preserve by returning of the drier portion of the Great Plains to native prairie, and by reintroducing the American bison ("buffalo"), that once grazed the shortgrass prairie. ...

. In 1997, Manos, living in Pueblo, was convicted of hunter harassment while acquitted of criminal trespass, in a civil disobedience lawsuit. Manos and six other protestors had been arrested on July 5 "for disrupting a prairie dog shoot on private property". in 1999, Manos founded the Great Plains Restoration Council and was a founding member of the Southern Plains Land Trust. The Southern Plains Land Trust, based in

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, had paid $198,000 for a property for receiving relocated

prairie dogs Prairie dogs (genus ''Cynomys'') are herbivorous burrowing ground squirrels native to the grasslands of North America. There are five recognized species of prairie dog: black-tailed, white-tailed, Gunnison's, Utah, and Mexican prairie dogs. ...

. It was involved in controversy with

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, landowners, which arose to consideration by the

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of the U.S. House of Representatives. His book ''Ghetto Plainsman'' was warmly endorsed by bestselling author

E. Lynn Harris E. Lynn Harris (born Everette Lynn Jeter; June 20, 1955 – July 23, 2009) was an American author. Openly gay, he was best known for his depictions of African-American men who were on the down-low and closeted. He authored ten consecutive book ...

(1955-1999) before Harris died. In his 2009 memoir ''Ghetto Plainsman'', he describes himself as "an inner-city urban tattooed muscled ex-drug dealer homeboy thug hypersensitive vegetarian animist homosexual cyclist rural outback plainsman."

Published works

*''Ghetto Plainsman'' (2007, 2010)

References

External links

Ghetto Plainsman, Jarid Manos
{{DEFAULTSORT:Manos, Jarid Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American environmentalists