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Soil Health Workshop Connects Community to Learn About Best Practices in Agriculture

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Our Soil Health workshop took place on September 12, 2022, in Stockton, MO, at the Zumwalt Expo Center. Forty-six participants learned about promising solutions to help restore soil health while increasing farm profits and supporting biodiversity. The workshop began with a rainfall simulator demonstration by Drexel Atkisson, where participants saw the impact of soil management …

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Watershed Natives Workshop Explored Life in Color Through Paper Plant Dyeing

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Watershed Natives and Springfield artist Kate Baird hosted the Color Sense – Paper Dyeing with Plants Workshop at the Watershed Center on Saturday, October 1st, 2022. This workshop brought the community together to explore how we look at color in the natural world. Attendees added splashes of color to paper using natural dyes made from …

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October Monthly Meeting

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Join us Friday, October 7, 7:30 am at the Watershed Center for our October Monthly Meeting. Our presenter Michael Bill is the Missouri Department of Conservation Statewide Habitat Management Coordinator, who oversees the nation’s first planning strategy to combine the state forest and wildlife action plans. The National Weather Service will also provide an update, …

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WCO Summer Newsletter

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Friends,We hope you enjoy our Summer Newsletter! We promise the pages are filled with interesting stories and pictures of our recent work to keep your water clean and build community in the process. WCO’s Summer Newsletter

September Monthly Meeting

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Join us Friday, September 2, 7:30 am at the Watershed Center for our September Monthly Meeting. Our presenter is Dr. Robert Elworth. Dr. Elworth will share his story of over 30 years of being a steward of his Greene County property, transforming idle Fescue fields into what is now rich and diverse native prairie, benefiting …

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August Monthly Meeting

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Join us Friday, August 5, 7:30 am, in person at the Watershed Center for this special outdoor Chautaugua style meeting. We will not have a speaker, instead we will have an extended around the room update and networking. What is a Chautauqua, you might ask? Here’s what Wikipedia says: “Early Chautauquas (/ʃəˈtɔːkwə/ shə-TAW-kwə) were an …

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July Monthly Meeting

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Join us Friday, July 1 at 7:30 a.m. (Virtual Only) for an hour of networking for clean water at our virtual Monthly Meeting. Presentation: “Tools for Watershed Protection: Examples from New Hampshire”, by Lauren Zielinski, New Hampshire Water Resources Program Manager, Merrimack River Watershed Council We will also hear an update from the Missouri Department …

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WCO 1st Quarter Newsletter

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Friends,We hope you enjoy our 1st Quarter Newsletter! We promise the pages are filled with interesting stories and pictures of our recent work to keep your water clean and build community in the process. WCO’s 1st Quarter Newsletter

KSMU Story on Watershed Natives Program

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Watershed Committee is proud to partner with Hillcrest High School and the Ozark Empire Fairgrounds on the Watershed Natives program. Another excellent article about the success and impact of the program! SPS students get their hands dirty while learning about the environment

April Monthly Meeting

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Join us Friday, March at 7:30 a.m. (Virtual Only) for an hour of networking for clean water at our virtual Monthly Meeting.Presentation: Collaborate for a Flourishing Community When Trails and Streams Collide, Todd Wagner, PE, D.WRE, CFM, Wagner and Associates We will also hear an update from the Natural Resources Conservation Service Join Zoom Meeting …

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