LaBarque Creek in Jefferson County, where the Missouri Conservation Heritage Foundation has invested more than $2 million to protect the watershed.  |
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Greetings!
Conservation Friends,
Welcome to the first issue of the Missouri Conservation Heritage Foundation's e-newsletter. We will send you these occasional missives to keep you informed of our activities and to let you know about ways you can be involved. The Foundation is a nonprofit, charitable organization founded in 1997 to help meet financial needs placed on natural resource conservation and conservation-related outdoor recreation. The Foundation is separate from the Missouri Department of Conservation but supports that agency's mission of protecting the state's fish, forestry, and wildlife resources for all Missourians. We are governed by a volunteer board comprised of conservation, community, and business leaders. By working with Missouri Department of Conservation staff, who partner with conservation groups statewide, we fund projects that immediately address conservation and outdoor recreation needs. Since it was created in 1997, the Foundation has provided more than $10 million for conservation projects. The Foundation receives funding from several sources, including Conservation Heritage License Plate donations; private donations from individuals, businesses, and organizations; and payments to the Stream Stewardship Trust Fund. Private donors may specify how they want their contributions spent, from funding nature centers and outdoor classrooms to wildlife law enforcement, stream protection, wildlife habitat management or many other areas of need. We invest in your conservation legacy! The Foundation offers volunteer opportunities and a variety of conservation giving opportunities. If you would like to speak to a Foundation staff person for more information, call 1-800-227-1488. |
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The Grand Pass Bird Monitoring Station was one of nine projects awarded funding. Here, Missouri Valley College Students learn to band birds at Grand Pass Conservation Area. |
Foundation Awards More than $44,000 to Conservation Projects
At their August 26, 2010 meeting in Jefferson City, the Missouri Conservation Heritage Foundation board of directors approved $44,470 in funding to nine projects benefiting conservation or outdoor recreation. The grants are from the Foundation's Missouri Department of Conservation Partnership Grant Program. Read more about these recent awards at the Foundation's Web site. |
Missouri Novelist Helps Readers Connect to Conservation
Stan Crader's 2008 novel The Bridge follows the life of a 12-year-old boy during one Missouri summer in 1967. "Even though the book is set in Missouri in the 1960s, many readers of different ages and from different backgrounds tell me they relate to the novel," said Crader. "That's why I called the book The Bridge," he added, "because I want the story to be a bridge to the reader's own memories."
Through The Bridge, Crader is also helping readers connect to the organizations he cares about. Crader, whose family owns a chain saw distribution company in Marble Hill, Missouri, donates the net proceeds of his book to two Christian-oriented organizations for young people: Teen Challenge, a drug-rehabilitation program for teens, and Young Life, a substance-abuse prevention program, and also to the Missouri Conservation Heritage Foundation.
"I have a broad range of conservation interests," said Crader. "Growing up in the country I came to appreciate the work that is necessary to manage forests and other natural communities, as well as to protect wildlife habitat." Because the Missouri Conservation Heritage Foundation raises funds for a wide variety of conservation needs, the organization fits Crader's personal reasons for donating to conservation. He also wants his readers know about the organization.
When readers purchase Crader's book on-line at his Web site, they can select the organization to which they want the net proceeds from the book purchase directed. Crader is currently finishing his second novel, told from the perspective of a paperboy in a small town.
The Missouri Conservation Heritage Foundation is grateful to Mr. Crader for his generosity, and wishes him much success on his future books.
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Guarantee Your Buck
Even if you have bad luck harvesting a deer this fall, you can still come home proud---with a white-tail Conservation Heritage License Plate on your vehicle.
Purchase a Conservation Heritage License Plate---bluebird and bald eagle designs are also available---and display your commitment to conservation all year long.
You can pay for the plates while you purchase your hunting permit, wherever hunting and fishing permits are sold.
For a $25 annual donation to the Missouri Conservation Heritage Foundation, a permit vendor will give you a "Conservation Heritage License Plate Emblem Use Authorization Form" that allows you to order the Conservation Heritage plate of your choice from the Missouri Department of Motor Vehicles. You may order Conservation Heritage plates any time, regardless of your current license plate expiration date.
The Foundation will direct your donation to improving wildlife habitat, stream protection, conservation nature centers, outdoor classrooms, Stream Teams, and other conservation programs.
Questions? Contact the Missouri Conservation Heritage Foundation at 1-800-227-1488 or visit the Foundation's Web site.
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