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Pure Water … Brick by Brick Only 1 Day Remains-We are about $1,500 away from our $12,000 Goal!! Want to support water sampling, sponsor a child to attend a Watershed Center field Trip or have your name or message engraved on our walkway? You can do all of these by being a part of this [...]

We’re coming down to the wire–2 days–on the Watershed Brick-by-Brick campaign. If you were considering participating, now is the time, it’s almost over! This is an all or nothing style campaign so we really need your help. Donations are perfect, if that is your plan, but please also consider sharing the link below on facebook, [...]

Engagement is no simple task. To engage is to connect with someone in a way which they are persuaded that your passion is worth their energies. Better yet is to engage another whose own motivation and interest soon matches your own, if only in a narrow sense. We are part of an exceedingly disengaged society. [...]

  Running Water  Last week the skies cleared, the weather warmed, and I pulled out my running shoes for a lunch-hour run.  I had no idea what I was in for… Within three blocks, I ran into a friend who had recently returned from a tour in Afghanistan—a place with little water and many other [...]

Join Us April 5th for our Monthly Meeting at the Midtown Carnegie Library 7:30am (397 E. Central Springfield MO) Agenda     1.     Watershed Committee Update 2.     Roll Call 3.     Review of Minutes 4.     Ecological Flow–Andy Austin, Regional   Fisheries Supervisor, Missouri Department of Natural Resources 5.     Missouri Department of Natural Resources Update–Cindy [...]

Last week was a busy one at the Watershed Center. We hosted a great event on Tuesday that targeted a homeschool audience in an attempt to connect the environmental education community to the home educator community. Two days later, we hosted the Missouri Stream Team Introductory workshop. In both events, I witnessed adults filling in [...]

Happy World Water Day!  This is a day to focus attention on the importance of freshwater and advocate for the sustainable management of that resource.  Each year World Water Day highlights a specific aspect of freshwater; in 2013 the theme is the International Year of Water Cooperation.  All around the world water professionals and citizens [...]

Dear Friends of the Watershed, We have a very exciting project occurring right now on Cause Momentum:   https://www.causemomentum.org/projects/pure-water-brick-by-brick   Please check it out–Cause Momentum is a dynamic, crowd-source giving platform and a really incredible community resource provided by the Community Foundation of the Ozarks and Marlin.  As an incentive for several donation levels of our drive, [...]

Freshly turned earth created a perimeter to a field of dead grasses and forbs, dried from months of winter without growth. Special yellow shirts and green pants served as uniforms for the men carrying drip torches; simple and effective combinations of fuel canister and wick, unchanged in the decades since their invention. With a simple [...]

If you listened to KSMU today, you may have heard a story about a giving platform known as Cause Momentum. The story was great and does a thorough job of explaining the origin and purpose of Cause Momentum, so I will post it below. The story got me thinking about our community’s recent local focus. [...]