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The Memphis (Lake Showme) Community Assistance Program (CAP) Fish Cleaning Station was completed on July 31, 2014. MCHF covered approximately $2,224 of the cost using contributions from individuals to commenmorate Mr. Rainey and his service to MDC and the community. The new covered fish cleaning station is ADA accessible and allows two anglers to use […]

Robert Gallardo was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Honduras in the early 1990s and has lived there ever since. I first met Robert in 2005 when I was attending a meeting in Honduras and he was guiding a group of birders staying in the same hotel. On several later trips to Honduras we hired Robert […]

Representatives of Missouri Conservation Heritage Foundation (MCHF) and Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) attended a book launching event to celebrate the completion of The Birds of Honduras by Honduran birding guide and former Peace Corps worker Robert Gallardo. This is the first book on the birds of the entire country. The availability of the book […]

Firearms season 2014 marked the start of the 6th Annual Peterson Outdoors Ministries (POM) Wounded Warrior hunt in southwest Missouri. Of course work on the event started months earlier, but on the day before the firearms opener, Soldiers and Marines who served in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Vietnam, along with their families started arriving at one […]

The main accomplishment for the grant received from MCHF was to provide a quality hunt for our disabled and youth hunters. This year with the very bitter cold temperatures the blinds that we have purchased provided a warm and protective cover for our hunters which in turn allowed them to hunt longer and enjoy the outdoors […]

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.–Everything you ever wanted to know about waterfowl hunting and conservation in Missouri and quite a bit you never dreamed of has been gathered into one book, and that book now is on sale at locations statewide, by phone or online. Waterfowl Hunting and Wetland Conservation in Missouri – A Model of Collaboration […]

You continue to support and protect Missouri streams as the Missouri Stream Team Program turns 25! The Missouri Stream Team Program is a citizen-led effort to conserve Missouri streams. The program is sponsored by the Missouri Department of Conservation, the Missouri Department of Natural Resources and the Conservation Federation of Missouri. The focus of the […]

Your generous donation to the Missouri Conservation Heritage Foundation will support research and education designed to better understand and manage Missouri’s black bears. Do we have black bears in Missouri? The answer is yes, we have a small but possibly growing population. Black bears appear to be making a comeback in Missouri after being nearly […]

MCHF is happy to announce that the volunteer fund now has over $7,500 available for staff of MDC to use to cover volunteer training and travel statewide to continue to support programs that would not be possible without the volunteers. In spring of 2013 MCHF was approached by the Missouri Conservation Pioneers to set up […]

At its meeting on February 20, the MCHF Board funded several projects to support ongoing work by Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) staff. These projects include: Macon Family Outdoor Fun Day – $1,250 Blue River Community Restoration Day – $2,475 Columbia Public Schools Outdoor Education Program – $5,000 DeKalb County Upland Bird Youth Hunt – […]