River Relief

March 27, 2011

Missouri Premiere of Aldo Leopold film

"Greenfire" - April 7, 7:00 p.m.

"Greenfire"

When: Thursday, April 7 - 7:00 p.m.

Where: Conservation Hall, Anheueser-Busch building, University of Missouri, Columbia
On Rollins Street, between the Christopher Bond Life Sciences building and the Agricultural building.
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FREE!

The Society for Conservation Biology is hosting the Missouri premiere of an excellent documentary covering the life and legacy of ecologist and author Aldo Leopold.

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March 17, 2011

Volunteer to Help Recover Pallid Sturgeon!

A major part of the recovery program for the endangered pallid sturgeon is stocking live fish. The first step in this process is to find breeding age pallid sturgeon. Pallid sturgeon broodstock collection is a multi-agency project, and your help is needed to make it happen.

In Missouri, there are two crews collecting pallid sturgeon this spring, Missouri Dept. of Conservation and US Fish & Wildlife Service, and they've asked us to help spread the word for volunteers.

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March 12, 2011

River Relief Conducts Aerial Trash Scout

Missouri River Relief staff and volunteers hit the skies on Friday, March 11, for a trash scout by plane of the Lower Missouri River from Kansas City to St. Louis.

Working with a pilot and GIS technician from the non-profit Ecoflight, River Reliefers Jeff Barrow and Tim Nigh used the opportunity to get a birds-eye view of trash accumulations along more than 300 miles of the river.

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February 24, 2011

Senator McCaskill honors River Relief!

On February 3, US Senator Claire McCaskill gave Missouri River Relief a special honor. On the Senate floor, she offered a resolution for the Congressional Record honoring Missouri River Relief on our 10th Anniversary.

We are humbled by the honor, which of course recognizes the efforts of the more than 14,000 volunteers who have removed more than a million pounds of trash from the Missouri River since 2001.

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February 22, 2011

March 8 Big Muddy Speaker Series

"Bats of Missouri and the spread of White Nose Syndrome"

presented by Kathryn Womack, University of Missouri graduate student, bat rehabilitator

7:00 p.m. - Tues. March 8, 2011
lower floor of the
Les Bourgeois Vineyards Bistro
in Rocheport, MO
(directions below)
Presentation is FREE!
Come early to purchase a great dinner upstairs at the Bistro!

(note: our originally scheduled presenter Duane Chapman ("Invasion Carp") has rescheduled for April 12. Thanks Kathryn for stepping up!)

Join us for our monthly Big Muddy Speaker Series at the Les Bourgeois Bistro.

One of the names for Missouri is the "Cave State". Right around the town of Glasgow, the Missouri River dives south into the border of the Ozark uplift, where limestone hollows hide thousands of caves carved into the rock by eons of water flowing through it.

Many of these caves are home at some time of the year for Missouri's many species of bats. Graduate student and bat rehabilitator Kathryn Womack will introduce us to the world of Missouri bats and their biggest threat right now.

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