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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 State Wildlife Grant "Dear Colleague" Letter Update
Thanks to all of you who made phone calls in March! Nationally, 47 Senators and 80 Representatives signed on to the State Wildlife Grants "Dear Colleague" letter.In Missouri, the following members signed on to the letter, supporting the State Wildlife Grants Program:
Sen. Christopher Bond (R)
Sen. Claire McCaskill (D)
Rep. Emanual Cleaver (D)
Rep. Ike Skelton (D)
Rep. Lacy Clay (D)
Rep. Russ Carnahan (D)Rep. Jo Ann Emerson (R) - programmatic request
We
give a huge shout of thanks to these Missouri leaders who consistently support
State Wildlife Grants and the important projects that it makes possible in
Missouri.Those who did NOT sign on this year:
Rep.
Todd Akin (R)
Rep. Roy Blunt (R)
Rep. Sam Graves (R)
Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (R)For more details, visit the national Teaming With Wildlife website (www.teaming.com). |
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 Natural Areas Conference: Save the Date and Call for Papers/Posters
October 26-29,
2010
Tan-Tar-A Resort
Osage
Beach, Missouri
Abstract submissions
must be received by May
14, 2010
The 2010 Natural Areas Conference will be held in the Ozark Highlands of Missouri. The conference will continue its tradition of providing practical, land management focused information through symposia, workshops, paper sessions, posters, round-tables and opportunities for social networking. This year's conference will host a Natural Resources Connections Symposium, offer continuing education credits for training workshops and field trips, sponsor student mentoring activities, and host a Nature Art
exhibit and contest.
For more details, click here.
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 2010 Conservation Federation of Missouri Resolutions
The delegates of this year's Conservation Federation of Missouri Annual Convention have voted to adopt thirty resolutions on current issues. The convention challenged more than 200 Federation members, meeting in natural resource committee sessions, to debate current conservation issues and develop positions statements, when appropriate.
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 LaBarque Creek Conservation Opportunity Area Watershed Plan and E-Newsletter
The La Barque
Creek Watershed Plan was signed by
interested conservation partners on October 28, 2009 at a
ceremony in the
watershed.
The
Plan, several years in the writing, is basically a workbook
for the next few
years citing immediate and longer term goals. The plan
exists to help emphasize
the importance of wise land use and land management along
with promoting
resident education regarding land stewardship of the natural
resources in the
watershed.
Learn more in the latest "Friends of La Barque Creek Watershed E-Newsletter." |
 Missouri Prairie Foundation Sponsors Prairie BioBlitz
Across the country, nature lovers and professional biologists are teaming up to identify as many species as possible (the "bio") in an area over the course of 24 hours (the "blitz"). The Missouri Prairie Foundation
is hosting its own version with the free Penn-Sylvania Prairie BioBlitz on
Saturday, May 29 and Sunday, May 30.
Penn-Sylvania Prairie, an original prairie owned
and protected by the Missouri Prairie Foundation since 1971, is in Dade County,
between Lamar and Stockton Lake. More than 260 plant species are known from the
160-acre tract of prairie, but for many other groups of species, little
information is known.
Join experts in many natural history fields to locate, identify and document
prairie amphibians, reptiles, birds, ants, butterflies, moths, bees, beetles, small mammals including bats, land snails, vascular plants, mosses and liverworts.
Full details |
 Missouri Bird Lovers Share Interest - and Birds - With Central American
Counterparts
The Missouri Conservation Heritage Foundation invites all bird lovers to
help with this endeavor by contributing to its Missouri Tropical Bird Account, a funding source dedicated to assisting
Neotropical migratory bird habitat protection, management, research and
education projects.
View the full article.
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 Missouri Stream Team Video Award
The 20th anniversary
Stream Team video has been recognized with the 2010 Film of the Year Award by
the Earthwatch Institute. In announcing the award the Institute included the following
comments:
"'20 Years: Missouri Stream Team' (28 minutes), was produced, directed, and written
by Jim Karpowicz, and produced by the Documentary Group at Technisonic, St.
Louis, MO. This engaging documentary, narrated by Cindy Woolf and featuring
short interviews with local Stream Team activists, chronicles the twenty-year
history of more than 80,000 volunteers organized into more than 4,000 official
Missouri Department of Conservation Stream Teams. As viewers watch these
everyday citizens become inspired to clean up, protect, and help scientists
understand rivers and streams throughout Missouri, they'll be moved to think
about ways to take action in their own communities. The film shows the growth
of these efforts from a small group of fishermen to a statewide movement without
losing sight of the deeply personal sense of connection to their local natural
resources that motivates the Stream Team volunteers."
Our
congratulations to all involved and thanks for your dedicated service for twenty
years.Click here to view the video. |
America's Great Outdoors Initiative
On April 16th, President
Obama
launched the "America's Great Outdoors" initiative at
the
White House Conference on the Great American
Outdoors. Over
the coming months the administration plans to collect
the best
ideas on conservation through a series of listening
sessions
that will be held across the country. The president
also
signed a presidential memorandum that among other
things spurs
interagency coordination on the president's
conservation
initiative and calls for a report to be completed by
November
15, 2010.
HOW CAN YOU HELP:
Join the dialogue by visiting the America's Great Outdoors community
website.
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Welcome New TWW Coalition Members!
Wow! We've had 15 new members join since our last e-newsletter. That bumps us to 273 coalition members and makes us the 5th largest TWW Coalition in the country!
If you know of an organization or business that would like to join (it's free!), fill out the brief form at www.teaming.com/action.
Claycomo Economic Development Group
Claycomo Friends of the Park - "We are a non-profit group of volunteers who assist the seven member Claycomo Parks Board. Claycomo has three Village Parks. Thornton "MILL Creek" runs through all three parks and we have several wetland areas."
Claycomo Park Board
Des Peres Parks & Recreation - "We bring our community together in our facilities and parks to inspire
healthy lifestyles through high quality programs, extraordinary customer
service, and constant efforts of improvement. We serve our community
through stewardship and protection of our natural, environmental,
physical, and historical resources."
Friends of La Barque Creek Watershed - The Friends of La Barque Creek Watershed are dedicated to community
participation in activities that preserve and improve the natural state
of this unique area.
Harvest Arts - a locally-owned art studio in Eureka, MO, interested in supporting the conservation of wildlife through the arts.
Lake of the Ozarks Watershed Alliance - is a proactive group of local residents formed to protect and preserve
our lakes and
watershed.
Lewis & Clark Boat House and Nature Center - Situated beside the Missouri River at Bishop's Landing in charming
historic St. Charles, Missouri, the educational facility features
exhibits relating to the Lewis and Clark expedition as well as the
Missouri River ecosystem.
Martha Lafite Thompson Nature Sanctuary - Located in Liberty, MO, its mission includes providing hands-on environmental and
natural science education for all ages and conserving biodiversity of native plants and animals.
Missouri Master Naturalists - Miramiguoa Chapter - The Miramigoua
Chapter was formed in the spring of 2009 to serve the Franklin County
area. The Missouri Master
Naturalist program is an adult community-based natural resource
education and volunteer service program sponsored jointly by the
Missouri Department of Conservation and the University of Missouri
Extension.
Stream Team #3062
Stream Team #4031 (Timberland) - "We monitor an unnamed tributary to Little Clear Creek in St. Clair County. We also install and service monofilament recycling tubes on the Sac River and at Stockton Lake. We will begin monitoring at Stockton this year, as well as on our community lake."
UMSL, Pierre Laclede Honors College - CHERP - CHERP (Campus Honors Environmental Research Program) is a course series and research area within the Pierre Laclede Honors College at the University of Missouri - St. Louis. Our Urban Ecology classes use project-based learning to teach ecology, science thinking, and environmental consciousness to non-science undergraduates in an urban university. We engage students in doing ecological field study in order to restore wildlife habitat and native savanna on campus and the adjoining 130 acre St. Vincent Park. We strive to make our campus more ecologically sustainable with restored wild areas.
Upper White River Basin Foundation (Ozarks Water Watch) - mission is to promote water quality in the upper White River watershed
through bi-state collaboration on research, education, public policy
and action projects.
Village of Claycomo City Hall
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