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In October 2010, MCHF helped the Mo. Dept. of Conservation’s Runge Conservation Nature Center host three guests from a Honduran after-school environmental education program. During their week-long visit to Missouri, the two teenagers and the executive director of Guaruma conservation education center studied glades and woodlands at Spring Creek Gap Conservation Area, spent a day […]

On October 28, 2010, at the 37th Annual Natural Areas Conference held in Missouri at Tan-Tar-A Resort, Rick Thom received the Natural Area Association’s highest honor, the George B. Fell Award. The NAA awards the George B. Fell Award to an individual who exhibits the highest qualities of the natural areas profession and who has […]

On September 10, 2010, local residents celebrated the Vann School Centennial at the Twin Pines Conservation Education Center with an ice cream social and music by the Bressler Brothers Quartet, pictured above. For the final song of the evening, the Bresslers moved out to the schoolhouse where Andy Bressler once taught 24 students. Officially named […]

On Friday September 10, 2010, a ribbon cutting ceremony was held at the Twin Pines Conservation Education Center, Winona, for the recently completed Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)-compliant improvements to the archery range located on the grounds at Twin Pines. On hand for the ceremony were local NWTF Current River Caller Chapter committee members Troy […]

At their August 26, 2010 meeting in Jefferson City, the Missouri Conservation Heritage Foundation board of directors approved $44,470 in funding to nine grant projects benefiting conservation or outdoor recreation. The grants are from the Foundation’s Missouri Department of Conservation Partnership Grant Program. These projects leverage an additional $129,171 in matching funds and/or in-kind labor […]

The Board of Trustees for the Missouri Forest Heritage Center, Inc. (MFHC) voted to dissolve the corporation and donate the remaining funds to the education center they envisioned more than two decades ago. On August 18, 2010, Jerry J. Presley, former director of the Missouri Department of Conservation and MFHC President, made a donation of […]

MCHF provided $600 to help offset costs of two youth hunting clinics and hunts in Lincoln County. On September 4, 2010, approximately 30 youth hunters, mentors, Hunter Education instructors and Missouri Department of Conservation staff participated in the first of these events, held in cooperation with the Cuivre River Wildlife Management Association. The association is […]

In 2008, MCHF contributed provided $10,000—capstone funding for the $100,000 John McPheeters Challenge to The Nature Conservancy for prairie management and restoration in the 70,000-acre Grand River Grasslands Conservation Opportunity Area. Learn about conservation progress in the area today>>

A donated conservation easement from Yale and Alicia Muhm—and nearly $50,000 from the Missouri Conservation Heritage Foundation—keeps more than 1,000 acres of forest and more than three miles of headwater streams intact in Warren County. The August 2010 issue of the Missouri Conservationist features the 2009 contributuion of Yale and Alicia Muhm, donated a conservation […]

“In 2010—the second year of the program—I have been able to work with many Missouri Department of Conservation staff members, informing them of CFO’s Rural School Partnership Program, so when they are working with schools, they can suggest this as an avenue to fund conservation efforts,” said Warren Rose, Outreach and Education Regional Supervisor for […]

An unusual 400-acre parcel tucked away in Ripley County was brought into public ownership in 2009, thanks in part to $182,875 in funding from the Missouri Conservation Heritage Foundation, made possible through the Stream Stewardship Trust Fund. The new area, which will be an addition to Little Black Conservation Area, supports high quality dry sandstone […]

Sitting in my home office in Jefferson City, I look out the window at a lawn carpeted with violets and spring beauty—it is now pay back time for the long, cold Missouri winter of 2009–2010. And is it my imagination, or did I just hear the “ticky, tucky tuck” call of a summer tanager? Is […]