Supplies and travel for two MSU researchers to keep the continuity of their white-nosed syndrome study going as they complete one project that just ended and before they start their follow-up study which begins Spring 2010. This is a year-round out-of-cave monitoring program initiated in the spring of 2010 at the Ozark National Scenic Riverways […]
Native Prairie Appreciation Field Trips
MCHF Partnership Grant. This program is aimed at exposing high school students in the Montrose School District to Missouri’s remnant prairie communities in southwest Missouri. The majority of the high school students come from families with an agricultural tie. Missouri Department of Conservation staff will work with the students to conduct scientific projects and field […]
Grand Pass Bird Monitoring Station
MCHF Partnership Grant. In partnership with several conservation groups, the Department of Conservation maintains a bird monitoring station at Grand Pass Conservation Area. Funds will be used to cover costs of two summer interns form Missouri Valley College, Biology Department. The interns will work with Department staff and volunteers to conduct bird monitoring at Grand […]
University of MO-Southwest Center Habitat Improvement Work
Funding will be used by the Department of Conservation and University of Missouri to complete several habitat projects at the University of Missouri, Southwest Research Center near Mount Vernon. The completed habitat projects will be highlighted in future landowner tours and workshops held at the Southwest Center.
Operation Wildlife Lands-LaBarque Creek Conservation Area Public Land Management
Operation Wild Lands is a program that engages citizen volunteers of all ages to restore and maintain public lands throughout the Saint Louis Region. Funding will help the program host several habitat works days on public lands in the LaBarque Creek Conservation Opportunity Area.