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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 World Bird Sanctuary
hosts Inland Bird Banding Association Meeting, November 6-8, St. Louis, MO
Linda Tossing spends
every Thursday morning from March through October banding birds on the 305 acre
World Bird Sanctuary property near St. Louis. "We're starting to see fall
migrants," she explained when I spoke with her last Thursday. That morning,
their team had banded a Swainson's Thrush, Ovenbird and Common Yellowthroat,
along with several more common birds.
Photo; World Bird Sanctuary
Tossing leads the team of 10 volunteer bird banders for the
World Bird Sanctuary in a project that started in 2001. Volunteers band at
three sites with bird feeders and three sites without feeders to watch for
trends in bird diversity and density within and among the sites. The group is
working to pull results together, and Tossing will present at the upcoming
Inland Bird Banding Association Meeting in St. Louis.
Anyone interested in birds is invited to attend the 2009
Inland Bird Banding Association (IBBA) meeting, November 6-8, hosted by the
World Bird Sanctuary. IBBA is a regional association supporting bird banding as
a useful tool in the study of migration and biology of inland birds. The inland
region stretches from Saskatchewan and Manitoba in the north to Texas in the
south. It includes most Midwestern states.
The meeting will include a presentation by Brad Jacobs,
Missouri State Ornithologist of the Missouri Department of Conservation
regarding his work at Pico Bonito on Friday evening and a live bird
presentation by Walter C. Crawford, Jr. and staff of the World Bird Sanctuary on
Saturday evening.
Saturday morning sessions will include an early morning
driving tour of the Lone Elk St. Louis County Park and then a behind the scenes
tour of the World Bird Sanctuary. Presentation of Papers and Workshops will be
Saturday afternoon.
For more information, and to register for the conference,
visit the IBBA website.
Contact Linda Tossing (also Chair of the Missouri Bird Conservation Initiative)
with any questions.
The World Bird Sanctuary has been a Teaming With Wildlife
Coalition member since 2008.
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 Missouri TWW Sign-on Letter Sent to Senators Bond and McCaskill
A
dozen Teaming With Wildlife Coalition organizations signed on to this
letter supporting climate change legislation that includes wildlife
adaptation funding.
Thanks to all for signing on! Final letters with
signatures are below:
Senator Bond letter
Senator McCaskill letter |
Mystic COA Success
The Mystic Plains Conservation Opportunity Area partnership (led by the Missouri Prairie Foundation) continues to restore grassland habitats on private land. See below for several updates.
View photos taken by Frank Oberle on private land restored within the COA. Frank tells us, "the fescue was killed in the spring, Round-up and Plateau applied. Only grasses were planted. The following winter the forbs - wildflowers - were frost seeded. The forbs are not yet three years old. It was a USDA, FWS, MDC, MPF and NWTF joint project."
View MPF photos of a Winter 2009 seed planting on 132 acres of Premium Standard Farms land leased by the Missouri Prairie Foundation. This project utilized Missouri Bird Conservation Initiative (MoBCI) grant funds to add diversity to plantings completed through the NRCS EQIP program.
State Wildlife Grants were an important funding source in both projects.
The latest issue of the Missouri Prairie Journal also has an article, "COA Update: Mystic Plains" by Steve Mowry (pages 23-25) on overall efforts.
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 Funding Source: National Wild Turkey Federation Super Fund
Deadline: November 20, 2009
Through the George Clark State Chapter of the National Wild
Turkey Federation (NWTF), super fund
dollars will be available to fund a variety of conservation and hunting
heritage projects during 2010. The George Clark Chapter of NWTF is a nonprofit
group of conservation-minded individuals that raise money through banquets and
other activities for use in Missouri. Last year the chapter funded habitat and
shooting sports projects totaling over $200,000. Call for proposals
Application Form
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 Nominate Student for Conservation Leadership Corps!
The Conservation Federation of Missouri invites you to nominate a student (high school junior through college senior) to join our Conservation Leadership Corp (CLC).
The CLC offers students a unique opportunity to influence conservation policy and actions by actively participating in the CFM annual convention (Feb 26-28, 2010) and spring legislative field day.
The goal of the program is that no matter where their chosen careers lead them, CLC participants are prepared to personally influence policy and actions that will contribute to the conservation of Missouri's natural resources.
Learn more about the CLC program and fill out the nomination form here.
Nomination forms are due October 31.
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 XPlor: The New Kids Magazine from the Missouri Department of Conservation
Subscribe to Xplor, and your kids will get eye-popping art, photos
and stories about Missouri's coolest critters, niftiest natural places,
liveliest outdoor activities and people who make a living from the
wild. Together with Xplor Online, our magazine and website combo gets
kids outside and exploring!
Xplor
is available FREE to Missouri residents (one per household) six issues
per year. Subscribe here!
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