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Join Us Date:          September 7, 2007 Time:          7:30 am. Location:     Midtown Carnegie Library  (397 E. Central Springfield, MO) Presentation: Springfield’s Water Supply-A National Perspective–Jerry D. Vineyard, Interstate Rivers Director, MoDNR (Retired) Missouri Department of Conservation Update–Ronda Headland Catered by Panera Bread

July 7, 2007  Finley River Clean Up  10:00a.m. until 2:00p.m. *Registration starting at 9:30a.m.   *Lunch will be provided for registered volunteers from 11:00a.m. – 1p.m. Beginning at Lindenlure Dam and walking downstream three tenths of a mile to turn around on Lindenview Road For more information, contact Justin Jenkins at:  417-581-2719 ext. 3

Tuesday, June 26 at 4:30pm Springfield Public Works will be showing off their newly completed stormwater-greenway partnership project that connects Silver Springs Park to Smith Park near National and Division. Join Ozark Greenways in dedicating this greenway. This is a wonderful example of a riparian corridor designed not only to have a fun trail along [...]

Greetings form the Sierra Club White River Group! The White River Group, including 21 counties in southwest Missouri, has reorganized and is now holding regular monthly open membership meetings on the second Tuesday of each month at the Springfield Conservation Nature Center at 7pm. Please join us for next meeting on June 12th at 7pm [...]

Saturday-July 28  2pm-4pm Close Memorial Park, located at 2400 S. Scenic, is hosting a gathering featuring Bluegrass Bands & Awarness of the proposed Botanical Gardens!! Friends of the Garden, a local non-profit group, is leading a fundraising effort to raise $4 million toward the construction of 19,000 square foot Botanical Center.The building has been enivironmentally designed [...]

H2O on the Go Workshop Educating and motivating people to care about and for groundwater. On Thursday, May 31, 2007, Watershed Committee of the Ozarks and The Groundwater Foundation will be co-sponsoring two, 3-hour H2O on the Go Workshops. These workshops are free of charge and will be held at the Watershed Center, 2450 E Valley Water [...]

Date:       Friday, May 4   7:30amLocation:  Midtown Carnegie Library  397 E. Central  Springfield, MO Presentation:    Americorp Volunteers Update–Kyle Kosovich, Tiffany Frey & Valerie Lee Presentation:    Highlights of Greene County Land Use–Kent Morris MDC Update:  Ronda Headland

Saturday June 9th–River Rescue–9am Clean-Up event on the James River      Followed by Beer, Brats, and Bluegrass at the Ozark Mill For more info. on the River Rescue, please visit http://www.jamesriverbasin.com/ or www.riverrescue.net Sunday June 10th–Stream Team Conference @ the Watershed Center–7:30am-9am Breakfast Burritos, 9am-3pm Workshops/lunch/field trips/Door Prizes/Stream Team Fun! Pre-registration is required for the Stream Team Conference. Please [...]