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 River Hills COA Field Tour with Congressman Luetkemeyer's Deputy District Director
Private landowners and conservation partners gathered in the Missouri River Hills COA on November 8, 2010 to share on-the-ground conservation success with Congressman Luetkemeyer's Deputy District Director, Dan Engemann. As part of the 10 year anniversary celebration of the State Wildlife Grant Program, the field tour highlighted this important federal funding source and how it has leveraged many more dollars for private and public land habitat restoration.Read more. |
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 Action Alert: Moving Outdoors in Nature Act
Congressman Ron Kind (D-WI) recently introduced the Moving Outdoors in Nature Act (MONA) in the United States House of Representatives. We hope you will join us in supporting this critical legislation by signing onto an organizational sign-on letter.The legislation would:
- Direct the President to develop an inter-agency federal strategy and action plan to connect children, youth and families with the natural world;
- Encourage states to develop similar state-based strategies that incorporate public health, parks and recreation, transportation and other initiatives at the local level;
- Support research documenting the health, conservation and other benefits of active time spent outdoors in the natural world.
The legislation encourages solutions that include connecting communities with green spaces, providing opportunities for outdoor recreation, engaging the health community to educate parents and caregivers and much more.
Please consider adding your organization's name to the sign-on letter by January 15, 2011. To sign on, email Jenna Peters at PetersJ@nwf.org with your NAME and ORGANIZATION (please include your STATE if you are not a national/regional organization). Click here to read the sign on letter. Since time is short in this 111th Congress, this letter will be sent to the House Natural Resources Committee leadership once MONA is re-introduced next year.
If you are an individual that does not represent an organization, please consider forwarding this alert along to organizations you work with that might be interested.
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 ESRI GIS Grant Program
The Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) has a new grant program to help non-profits with Geographic Information System (GIS) funding.
"ESRI is pleased to announce a new global grants program for non-profit groups. Called the "ESRI nonprofit program", and located at http://www.esri.com/nonprofit/, it's a streamlined way to get a cheap 1-year license of Arc/INFO, Esri's flagship GIS software. A new site at www.esri.com/grants summarizes all of our grant programs in relation to one another." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
 Land Acquisition Funds Available: REX East Migratory Bird Account
Funds are available (for both agencies and non-profits) for land acquisition (fee simple or conservation easements) for specific migratory birds in bottomland/upland/riparian habitat for Marion, Monroe, Pike, Lincoln, Ralls, and Audrain Counties. These funds are available due to required mitigation by a pipeline company that destroyed habitat for these species in these counties.
The U.S Fish and Wildlife Service and The Conservation Fund are partnering with Rockies Express Pipeline, LLC to conserve and restore migratory bird habitat along riparian corridors and upland forest habitat. Acquisition and/or restoration projects should target forest dwelling avian species impacted by the pipeline such as the Cerulean Warbler, Hooded Warbler, Worm-eating Warbler, Kentucky Warbler and Bewick's Wren. Proposals are due January 14, 2011.
For more details the REX East Missouri RFP and application form may be found at http://www.conservationfund.org/awards-grants/rex-east-missouri-2010or by calling Peg Kohring 616-510-1221.
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 Support Missouri Stream Team License Plate
The Missouri Stream Team Watershed Coalition has been working toward getting a specialty license plate approved that would showcase the Stream Team Program. This will increase visibility of the Program, showcase your commitment, and touch many who see it; in addition, this has an added benefit of raising funds for the Stream Team Program. Please consider supporting the approval of this specialty place by submitting an e-mail message to mvbmail@dor.mo.gov by November 30, 2010 that includes the following information:- Your full name
- Your address
- Your telephone number
- I support the Missouri Stream Team Watershed "Stream Team" Specialty License Plate
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 Gift Idea: CFM Holiday Wreaths
Celebrate the beauty of nature this Holiday Season and help CFM continue its conservation programs by ordering our 2010 Holiday Wreaths for your family and friends.
Each wreath is handmade by CFM members and features fresh and fragrant boughs of evergreens grown here in the Midwest. Each wreath is carefully prepared and treated to ensure freshness and vivid colors. Each of our wreaths is packaged and shipped to arrive in great shape, on time, fragrant and beautiful.
Learn more and order you wreaths today!
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Welcome New TWW Coalition Members!
We are now at 278 organizations and businesses in Missouri! Help us reach 300! 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.
We welcome the following new Teaming With WIldilfe Coalition members!
Horsecreek Tree Farm - Located in Galena, MO (southwest of Springfield), Horsecreek Tree Farm is "an award winning Tree Farm where we strive to manage our forest for wood production, our water resources for quality, our wildlife for hunting and watching and when all this is done right, recreational opportunities abound. We sell quality logs as per a ten year forestry plan, we have an active hunting program and we offer a weekend rental cabin for families and small groups." Lincoln University, Native Plants Program - The main goals of the Native Plants program are: 1) to promote the use of native plants for conservation to enhance biodiversity in rural and urban settings, and 2) to increase awareness about their potential as specialty crops to generate income for underserved audiences including small farmers, producers, landowners, and others.
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