Teaming With Wildlife is a coalition of businesses and organizations that support additional dedicated funding for fish, forest and wildlife conservation and related education and outdoor recreation.
Spread the word! Encourage other organizations and businesses to join the Teaming With Wildlife Coalition by filling out the form at www.teaming.com/action. |
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Missouri Bird Conservation Initiative Conference and Grants Program
This issue features the Missouri Bird Conservation Initiative (MoBCI) - a partnership of 53 organizations working together to conserve and restore bird populations and their habitats. MoBCI has been a Teaming With Wildlife coalition member since July 2008.
Read below for information on the upcoming 2009 MoBCI Conference and the MoBCI grant program call for proposals. | |
You're Invited to the 2009 Missouri Bird Conservation Initiative Conference!
August 21-22, 2009
Days Inn Conference Center, Columbia, MO
This year's theme is "How Can we Make a Difference? A Big Picture View of Effective Bird Population Management," and will feature Bob Ford, Supervisory Wildlife Biologist with the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Region 4, offering a summary of the recently released "State of the Birds Report."
Registration deadline is August 17.
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Funding Opportunity: 2010 Missouri Bird Conservation Initiative Grant Program
Deadline: September 30, 2009
The Missouri Bird Conservation Initiative (MoBCI) serves as a conduit in providing financial support to private and public organizations or to individuals who have partnerships that carry out bird habitat conservation projects in Missouri. Eligible activities include projects that protect, enhance or restore bird habitats on any lands in Missouri. All projects should be habitat based and not strictly designed for monitoring, however monitoring can be a component of the project (<10%); some component of monitoring is recommended.
In addition, special priority will be given to projects that favor woodland restoration activities in areas of the Ozarks affected by severe storms in May 2009 (see article below).
Click here to view the call for proposals. |
 Severe Storm Damage - Woodland Restoration Opportunity
Severe storms swept across Missouri's Ozark Region on May 8, 2009, leaving in their path hundreds of thousands of acres of downed and damaged trees. Windstorms with wind speeds of 60-90 mph, microbursts of winds up to 165 mph, and numerous tornados resulted in snapped and uprooted trees across more than nine counties in the Missouri Ozarks. Forestry Division (MDC) estimated that 68,000 acres of private lands, at least 29,000 acres of Mark Twain National Forest lands, and just over 13,000 acres of MDC lands sustained damage to woodlands. Is there a silver lining to these storm clouds? We think so! This catastrophic natural event created a unique opportunity for landscape scale, pine-oak woodland restorations on thousands of acres of sites most favorable for establishment of woodland natural communities...read more.
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Climate Change Legislation Update
Mark Humpert, Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies
On Friday, June 26, the House of Representatives passed the American Clean Energy and Security Act (HR 2454) by a 219-212 margin. The cap and trade bill was authored by Energy & Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (CA)and co-sponsored by Edward Markey (MA), Chairman of the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming. This was a historic vote and is the first time either body of Congress has passed climate change legislation.
The bill includes a strong natural resources adaptation title that would provide billions in new funding to federal and state fish and wildlife agencies to address climate change. Roughly 1/3 of funding for natural resources adaptation funding would go to state fish and wildlife agencies. Precise funding figures are not available because of differences in how the value of allocations are calculated. However, I've provided a table (below) drafted by the National Wildlife Federation that will give you a sense of how much funding could become available to combat the affects of climate change on wildlife. Again, roughly 1/3 would go to state fish and wildlife agencies.
Following is a breakdown of proposed funding for natural resources
adaptation (roughly 1/3 would go to state fish & wildlife agencies)
2012: $610 million
2015: $740 million
2020: $940 million
2025: $2.09 billion
2030: $4.52 billion
The vote on Friday was the culmination of more than two years of work to ensure natural resources adaptation funding. Gary Taylor, AFWA's Legislative Director has been one of the leaders in a diverse coalition that has been working intensely on this issue. Other key organizations of the coalition include the National Wildlife Federation, Defenders of Wildlife, The Nature Conservancy, The Wilderness Society, Trout Unlimited, Izzak Walton League, Ducks Unlimited, Teddy Roosevelt Conservation Partnership and Trust for Public Land.
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Missouri Stream Team Program Celebrates 20 Years!
The Missouri Stream Team program celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. Since 1989, an estimated 80,000 citizens have participated and formed 4,000 Stream Teams.
Click here to view a video celebrating this achievement!
Did you know that over 40 individual Stream Teams are members of the Teaming With Wildlife Coalition? To add yours to the Coalition, click here! | |
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