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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 Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from your Teaming With Wildlife Steering Committee!
This video greeting (available at the Youtube link below), is the essence of what our TWW coalition works so hard to provide all Missouri citizens throughout the year . . . bountiful forest, fish and wildlife resources in every corner of our beautiful state! We are very fortunate in Missouri to have such a strong conservation heritage, founded on the successful partnerships that each of you are a part of. We sincerely hope that your Holiday Season is cheerful and bright and that the New Year will continue to bring the blessings of nature to you and your families!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmSP_2Ycu9M
Sincerely, Missouri Teaming With Wildlife Steering Committee
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 2010 Teaming Highlights
Thanks for making this another great year! Here are some highlights of what Missouri's Teaming With Wildlife Coalition was able to accomplish in 2010.
- CFM distributed the second round of Missouri Teaming With Wildlife Mini-Grants. We awarded 10 mini-grants, totaling $17,200 to help citizen conservation groups implement Missouri's Comprehensive Wildlife Strategy.
Thanks for your support of Missouri's Teaming With Wildlife Coalition!
I will be on maternity leave January-February, so you likely won't see another TWW e-newsletter until March. In the meantime, we are putting together another strong team to participate in the Teaming With Wildlife Fly-in Days March 1-2 in Washington, D.C. Stay tuned for news from that event.
Best wishes for a wonderful Christmas and Happy New Year!
Amy Buechler, Teaming With Wildlife Coordinator
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 Mini-Grant Update
The past two years, the Conservation Federation of Missouri and Teaming With Wildlife Steering Committee have sponsored a Missouri Teaming With Wildlife Mini-grant Program. We are hoping to raise funds to be able to offer this opportunity again in 2011, but it will not be on the same time frame as previous years. Stay tuned for more information. In the meantime, the Conservation Federation of Missouri is offering a CFM 75th Anniversary Mini-grant Program for CFM affiliates (deadline: January 5, 2011). If you are not an affiliate, you can find the affiliation forms here.
Funds will be used for projects that address recommendations from CFM's Summit for the Future of Missouri Outdoors. Guidelines for this program are purposefully broad, allowing our affiliated organizations to be creative in their approach to connecting the summit recommendation to their own organizational objectives. Projects will: 1.) Connect families to nature and get the message out that a quality, healthy outdoors is essential for human life; 2.) Conserve plants, animals, and natural communities so that they are diverse, healthy and resilient; 3.) Increase funding for operations, capital improvements and special projects that address wildlife habitat and outdoor recreation at the local, state and federal level.View the CFM 75th Anniversary Mini-grant Program Request for Proposals.For more information, contact Matt Gaunt, mgaunt@confedmo.org, (573)489-4440.
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 2010 TWW Mini-Grant Project Update: Watch the Watershed Bloom!
Thanks to a Teaming with Wildlife mini-grant from the Conservation Federation of Missouri, the Friends of LaBarque Creek and Stream Team #2991, in partnership with The Open Space Council, the Missouri Department of Conservation and The College School, present the LaBarque Creek Riparian Corridor Rehabilitation and Wildflower Restoration Project. As part of this project, 100 native trees will be planted along LaBarque Creek near Doc Sargent Road, and a combination of native grasses and native flowers will be seeded in front of the bluffs at the intersection of Highways F and FF. A sign informing people of the project (seen in photo ) has been placed near the plantings. Learn more about the LaBarque Creek Watershed Conservation Opportunity Area.
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 Urban Expansion Model
The Central Hardwoods Joint Venture recently funded a project to assess the impact of human development on high priority forest birds. As part of this study, the U.S. Forest Service Northern Research Station and Central Hardwoods Joint Venture staff developed a model of urban expansion from 1940-2030. The visual results of this work are quite telling. These graphics show housing density, ranging from dark green (0-2 houses/square mile) to dark red (> 128 houses/square mile). The results are to be used with county and regional planning groups to design and develop more ecologically sustainable urban and rural growth plans. For more information about this project, contact Dr. Todd Jones-Farrand, Central Hardwoods Joint Venture Science Coordinator, FarrandD@missouri.edu. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
Funding Opportunity: U.S. Forest Service
This competitive allocation process is a significant way that the Northeastern Area of the Forest Service helps state forestry agencies achieve priorities as documented in their Forest Resource Assessment and Strategy (FRAS) work. If you are interested in working on priority issues in Missouri as identified in FRAS, this might be a potential funding source.
Please take some time and review the Letter of Announcement and Application Form found at http://www.na.fs.fed.us/rfp/index.shtm. In addition please familiarize yourself with Missouri's Forest Resource Assessment and Strategy document which can be found at http://mdc.mo.gov/sites/default/files/resources/2010/08/9437_6407.pdf
If you are interested in applying for funding, please send a one page project proposal to Justine Gartner with the Missouri Department of Conservation at Justine.gartner@mdc.mo.gov by the close of business day on December 22, 2010. All project proposals will be reviewed to be sure they align with agency goals and the US Forest Service spending authority. Close attention will be paid to how the proposed project addresses FRAS strategies and impacts priority geographies. Not all project proposals will advance. Applicants for those projects which we would like to advance will be notified by January 5, 2011. At that point applicants can then put together the complete U.S. Forest Service Application Form.
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 Funding Opportunity: Hardwood Forestry Fund
Deadline: February 1, 2011The Hardwood Forestry Fund seeks grant applications for hardwood seedling planting on public or non-profit owned land. Management plans for the new trees must include timber production with harvest date and regeneration schedule. Grant deadline is February 1, 2011.
Please visit http://www.hardwoodforestryfund.org for grant guidelines and application form. Contact the HFF for more information at info@hardwoodforestryfund.org.
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 Moving Outdoors in Nature Act Introduced
On November 18th, Congressman Ron Kind (D-WI) introduced the Moving Outdoors in Nature Act (MONA) in the United States House of Representatives. MONA will improve our children's health, support economic growth, and strengthen the future of conservation in America by reconnecting our children, youth, and families with the natural world through innovative state strategies that connect communities with green spaces, provide opportunities for outdoor recreation, and engage the health community in educating parents and caregivers. MONA will also foster the creation of a similar federal strategy and advance related research. The legislation will achieve these goals by:
- Directing the President to develop an inter-agency federal strategy and action plan to connect children, youth and families with the natural world;
- Encouraging states to develop similar state-based strategies that incorporate public health, parks and recreation, transportation and other initiatives at the local level;
- Supporting research documenting the health, conservation and other benefits of active time spent outdoors in the natural world.
MONA's focus on health and recreation solutions will be an excellent complement to the No Child Left Inside (NCLI) Act's systemic approach of getting environmental education back into our nation's schools.
We urge you to join us in supporting the Moving Outdoors in Nature Act by signing on to the organizational support letter which you can find in the first link below. To sign on, please email Jenna Peters - PetersJ@nwf.org with your NAME and ORGANIZATION. If you are NOT a national or regional organization, please let us know the STATE you are based in. The DEADLINE to sign-on is January 15th, 2011.
Download the MONA Sign-on Letter.
Read the NWF News Article.
Read the MONA Fact Sheet.
Visit the Be Out There MONA Webpage.
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Welcome New TWW Coalition Members!
We are now at 279 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!
Total Resource Management -- Based in Clinton, MO, Total Resource Management is a professional wildlife habitat consulting and contracting company. "Our roots run deep - launched in 1992 as Environmental Repair Services we changed our name to Total Resource Management in 2002 and organized as an L.L.C. in January of 2008. The owner and manager has been in the industry since 1980. Our experience combined with a wide variety of projects completed over the years brings a broad base of knowledge and practicality to your project."
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