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Holiday Appeal, 2011 Since 1988, SPWRC has grown from a one-person operation to a regional non-profit wildlife rehabilitation and environmental education center. We’ve grown exponentially over the past twenty-three years. For nineteen of those years, we were 100% volunteer, and I’m very proud of that. Ultimately we had to add paid staff, and at present have a paid Executive Administrator, and one full and one part time Operations Manager who cover every day of the week. Open during daylight hours 365 days a year, everyone on board goes the extra mile to help provide the best care and chances for release back to the wild for our patients. We admit wildlife orphans and casualties from all over the Texas South Plains, numbering approximately 2500 or more annually. Many thousands of native songbirds, wading and shorebirds, birds of prey, small and large mammals and reptiles have been successfully returned to their natural wild habitats after being treated for malnutrition, serious and not-so-serious injuries, illness, displacement, and occasionally, abuse. SPWRC is not funded by our state or federal regulatory agencies, and we must depend on the generosity and support of our donors and friends in the Lubbock community and beyond to help keep our doors open. Our common denominator is a compassion and respect for wildlife, one of our most precious natural resources.If you didn’t receive a “Holiday Appeal” envelope recently, you can mail a tax-deductible contribution to SPWRC and know that your funds will help provide the best wildlife food and care possible by trained staff and volunteers, veterinarians and others who rise to the challenge year round. 
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