Chief Plenty Coup State Park update

As you may know, I donate $1 from the royalties for each book sold in the Jim Buchanan Novels series to Chief Plenty Coups State Park in Pryor Montana on the Crow Reservation. The purpose of Chief Plenty Coups State Park is to support the vision of Chief Plenty Coups, the last chief of the Crow Nation. They offer programs for Crow youth in languages, culture, and job skills.

To date, customers of the Jim Buchanan Novels have helped contribute $2,100 to Chief Plenty Coups State Park. I've been told that an additional amount of around $2,900 from other sources has been pledged to a construction project with a $25,000 target. Here are the details as they were related to me:

Chief Plenty Coups State Park has asked the MT State Parks Foundation to help them by raising funds for the development of new housing for Park Staff and Volunteers. We have raised just over $5,000 for the project so far, including your contributions. We are hoping to complete this project by early summer 2021. Here is a brief description:

The Montana State Parks Foundation is working collaboratively with Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks to provide critical housing for staff and volunteers at Chief Plenty Coups State Park. Existing housing for staff and volunteers consists of a dilapidated travel trailer that has badly deteriorated in recent years. Due to the remote location of Chief Plenty Coups State Park, housing is unavailable in the private rental market. Providing safe housing is a critical step in recruiting and retaining high quality staff and volunteers to run the park. This project will create a partnership with Billings West High School and their industrial arts courses for the production of the housing unit. This partnership will provide hands-on educational opportunities for Montana high school students while building the housing structure that will benefit state parks staff and volunteers for years to come. Students will benefit by learning valuable skills including framing, plumbing, electrical wiring, and finish carpentry while providing a much needed asset to an important state park near their homes.