House Approves $5 Million for Equine-Assisted Therapy for Veterans
The Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Act of 2018 included an amendment to increase Veterans Affairs’ Adaptive Sports Grant Program funding equine-assisted therapy.
Jun 8, 2018
On June 8 the U.S. House of Representatives passed HR 5895, the Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Act of 2018, which that included an amendment to increase funding for the Veterans Affairs’ Adaptive Sports Grant Program for equine-assisted therapy.
The amendment, introduced by U.S. Rep. Andy Barr (R-KY) increases funding by $5 million for fiscal year 2019.
The funding will enable an expansion of services that use equine-assisted therapy in conjunction with mental health care treatment and services to veterans.
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Eiseley’s very best work brings to mind Thoreau, Whitman, Robert Frost, John Muir, and other American seekers. A Nebraskan by birth, he wrote movingly of vast spaces-prairies, plateaus, the outer reaches of the galaxy and beyond https://www.thedailybeast.com/loren-eiseley-the-science-writer-our-planet-needs-now
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House Approves $5 Million for Equine-Assisted Therapy for Veterans
The Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Act of 2018 included an amendment to increase Veterans Affairs’ Adaptive Sports Grant Program funding equine-assisted therapy.
Jun 8, 2018
On June 8 the U.S. House of Representatives passed HR 5895, the Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Act of 2018, which that included an amendment to increase funding for the Veterans Affairs’ Adaptive Sports Grant Program for equine-assisted therapy.
The amendment, introduced by U.S. Rep. Andy Barr (R-KY) increases funding by $5 million for fiscal year 2019.
The funding will enable an expansion of services that use equine-assisted therapy in conjunction with mental health care treatment and services to veterans.
https://thehorse.com/158547/house-approves-5-million-for-equine-assisted-therapy-for-veterans/
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“It is a commonplace of all religious thought, even the most primitive, that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his fellows and love for a time in the wilderness.”
Loren Eiseley
Loren Eiseley, the Science Writer Our Planet Needs Now
Loren Eiseley’s revelatory works pondered the complex forces that brought forth this vibrant, beautiful planet-while acknowledging humanity’s, and our world’s, impermanence.
BEN COSGROVE
An anthropologist, teacher, and philosopher, Eiseley (1907-1977)
Eiseley’s very best work brings to mind Thoreau, Whitman, Robert Frost, John Muir, and other American seekers. A Nebraskan by birth, he wrote movingly of vast spaces-prairies, plateaus, the outer reaches of the galaxy and beyond
https://www.thedailybeast.com/loren-eiseley-the-science-writer-our-planet-needs-now
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Let’s not forget our series of videos on “Nature is speaking”:
https://www.conservation.org/nature-is-speaking/Pages/default.aspx
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WOW ! Thanks, Geri. I am Soil.
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