Amy Buechler, coordinator for the Conservation Federation of Missouri and the Teaming with Wildlife Coalition, presents a check to Robin McAlester of the Wildcat Glades Audubon Center and Bob Kulp representing the Shoal Creek Watershed Partnership Committee. The funds of $1500 will be used to host quarterly partnership meetings for the Shoal Creek Conservation Opportunity Area near Joplin and expand community-involved restoration workdays.
The local Chert Glade Master Naturalists, who received a check for $900.00 to purchase two canoes to aid in water quality education programs, creek cleanups and riparian restoration of the Shoal Creek and Spring River Conservation Opportunity Area, are shown at Walter Woods Conservation Area near Joplin.
Two local groups will share in the total of $10,800 that has been awarded to nine conservation organizations. Dispersing the Missouri Teaming with Wildlife Mini Grants is the Conservation Federation of Missouri. The grants were awarded to assist citizen conservation efforts within conservation opportunity areas throughout Missouri.
The Teaming with Wildlife Coalition includes nearly 250 Missouri organizations and businesses that support additional funding for fish, forest and wildlife conservation and related education and outdoor recreation. The coalition also supports implementation of Missouri's comprehensive wildlife strategy that focuses on partnerships to increase habitat work in priority places.
The Conservation Federation of Missouri is the state's oldest and largest statewide citizen conservation organization. Funding for the 2009 Teaming with Wildlife Mini Grant was provided by the federation as well as the Missouri Department of Conservation, the Missouri Prairie Foundation, Audubon Missouri, The Nature Conservancy and the Audubon Society of Missouri.
Other grant recipients are Audubon Missouri and their focus on the Iatan/Weston Missouri River corridor, Kansas City WildLands and the development of a training academy, Longboat Outfitters (together with the Ozark Regional Land Trust) and the re-invigoration of the Bryant Creek and North Fork Conservation Opportunity Areas, Missouri River Relief and the Manitou Bluffs Conservation Opportunity Area, The Open Space Council for the St. Louis Region for outreach, education and engagement in the LaBarque Creek Conservation and Opportunity Area, the Southwest Missouri Chapter of Quail Unlimited for Roaring River State Park glade restoration (removing Eastern red cedars) and to Stream Team 3481 for Big Piney River restoration. Go Back |
