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With its third annual National Lewis & Clark Conservation Awards ceremony September 22, 2018, the Missouri Conservation Heritage Foundation (MCHF) will recognize individuals and organizations that lead the charge for the appreciation and conservation of our natural resources in Missouri and beyond. Appropriately, the banquet will take place by the Missouri River, along Lewis and Clark’s route, at Missouri National Guard’s Ike Skelton Training Center in Jefferson City, Mo. at 6 p.m.

Lina Belle Berrier shared her love of music by teaching voice at Stephens College, Columbia, for 30 years. On February 7, 2016, Mrs. Berrier passed away at her home at the age of 93. Her voice and influence lives on through her generosity. Mrs. Berrier teamed with her husband, Dr. Harry Berrier, deceased in 2013, […]

The Missouri Conservation Heritage Foundation (MCHF) Board of Directors unanimously approved the appointment of Kevin Roper as the Executive Director for the Foundation. Mr. Roper has worked the last 35 years in Memphis, Nashville and Washington D.C. in retail, healthcare and higher education, having previously served as the president of the Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare […]

MCHF Board met on August 17-18 at Eagle Bluffs Conservation Area in Columbia, MO. . The following grants were approved by the Board, which cover a variety of projects around the state: Restoration of Pleasant Run Creek Prairie – $2,500; Cooley Lake Managed Waterfowl Hunt – $3,500; Perry County Community Lake Trail Boardwalk – $2,000; Shoal […]

The St. Louis Region’s fourth annual Discover Nature Girls Camp was a huge success! There were 65 girls and eight chaperones, and all the girlswere Hunter Education certified by the end of camp. In just four years St. Louis Region has Hunter Education certified approximately 240 girls through these camps. This helps to meet Missouri […]

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 […]