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 a t http://moteaming.org/Join. |
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Missouri Teaming With Wildlife Coalition surpasses 300 members!
We hit the 300 mark! Many thanks to all of our coalition members for supporting additional funding for fish, forest and wildlife conservation and related education and outdoor recreation.
We welcome our newest Teaming With Wildlife Coalition members, bringing our total to 304:
Click here for a complete list of Missouri Teaming With Wildlife Coalition members.
If you know of an organization or business that would like to join (it's free!), fill out the brief form.
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Fewer Signatures This Year for State Wildlife Grant "Dear Colleague" Letter, Take Action Now!
This has been a tough year for State Wildlife Grant funding. This spring, State Wildlife Grants were drastically cut for FY11 (from $90 million to $62 million). For FY12, we were seeking congress members to sign a letter supporting "the most robust funding possible" for State Wildlife Grants. Results are in: We are thankful to Senator McCaskill, Congressman Carnahan, Congressman Clay and Congressman Cleaver for signing the "Dear Colleague" letter! Thanks also to Congresswoman Emerson who indicated that she would send a programmatic request in support of State Wildlife Grants. Not signing on were Senator Blunt, Congressman Akin, Congressman Graves, Congresswoman Hartzler, Congressman Long, and Congressman Luetkemeyer.  The chart at left shows that all non-discretionary funding for the U.S. government is just 19% of the total budget. More importantly, it also shows that natural resource spending (Function 300) covering national parks and refuges, farm bill conservation programs, state revolving loan funds for water quality improvements, support for working forests, land acquisition and much more (including the tiny State Wildlife Grants program) constitute just 1.26% of the entire federal budget. It is clear that our budget problems can't be solved by cutting these programs and we need to make sure every federal elected official hears that - from you.
Hearing from home is the most effective way to get an elected officials' attention and we hope you will resend these letters (sportsmen and general conservation) to your Senators and Representatives with this message:
- Do not solve the budget problem by closing parks, hurting farmers and foresters, cutting water quality improvements to communities across America and endangering wildlife habitat.
- Instead, focus on a comprehensive solution that does not disproportionately target natural resource funding.
Please share these letters broadly in your constituency and ask them to do the same.
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 2010 Missouri Teaming With Wildlife Mini-grant Results!
Last April, the Conservation Federation of Missouri awarded 10 Missouri Teaming With Wildlife Mini-grants (maximum $2,500 each) to empower citizen conservation efforts within Conservation Opportunity Areas around the state. For reports on what was accomplished with these funds, click here. We are currently working to raise funds for another round of Teaming With Wildlife mini-grants. If you are interested in donating funds towards this cause, please contact Amy Buechler (1-800-575-2322, abuechler@confedmo.org). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
Make Wind Power Bird Smart: American Bird Conservancy Campaign
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Wind power has the ability to be a green, bird-friendly form of power generation, but can also adversely affect birds. Birds can die in collisions with the turbine blades (up to 14 birds per megawatt per year in the U.S., with a median rate of around 2.2 birds/MW/Yr according to industry estimates), towers, power lines, or related structures, and can also be impacted through habitat destruction from the siting of turbines, power lines, and access roads. Some birds, such as greater prairie-chickens are particularly sensitive to the presence of turbines, and can be scared away from their breeding grounds several miles away from a wind farm. American Bird Conservancy supports alternative energy sources, including wind power, but emphasizes that prior to the approval and implementation of new wind energy projects, potential risks to birds should be evaluated through site analyses, including assessments of bird abundance, timing, and magnitude of migration, and habitat use patterns. Learn more and take action here. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
 America's Grasslands Conference
August 15-17, 2011
Sioux Falls, SD
The National Wildlife Federation and South Dakota State University are pleased to announce that registration is now open for the upcoming "America's Grasslands: Status, Threats, and Opportunities" conference, to be held in Sioux Falls on August 15-17. The conference will bring together biologists, policy experts, ranchers, federal and state agency staff, representatives of elected officials, and conservationists for a two days to discuss the latest information on the status, threats and opportunities related to North American grasslands in order to raise the national profile of this endangered ecosystem and inform those interested in developing a roadmap for its conservation. The event will be immediately followed by a "Grasslands Policy Summit" on August 18th sponsored by the National Wildlife Federation, Ducks Unlimited, The Nature Conservancy, and World Wildlife Fund.
We welcome you to visit our website (http://www.sdstate.edu/wfs/grasslandconference) and register for this important event. We have an impressive array of speakers lined up for the conference, so be sure to check out our conference agenda. Early bird registration ends on July 8th, 2011.
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