Floating Wetlands at Valley Water Mill Lake
Watershed Natives and the Missouri Dept of Conservation deployed floating wetlands at Valley Water Mill Lake on August 14, 2024.
OEWRI’s Latest Sustainability Initiatives
August Meeting 2024 Recap Meeting Highlights: New Sustainability Programs at the Ozarks Environmental and Water Resources Institute at Missouri State University Doug Neidigh, Sustainability Unit Manager at the Ozarks Environmental and Water Resource Institute (OEWRI) presented at our August 2024 Meeting. He discussed pollution prevention and its correlation to cost savings and energy reduction. He said OEWRI …
Watershed News – Summer Newsletter 2024
Our Summer Newsletter has arrived! We’re excited to share Watershed’s Summer 2024 highlights with you. Click here to read it and get updates on:💧 Projects and Education🌿 Watershed Natives interns and projects👷♀️ Watershed Conservation Corps projects⛵️The latest at Fellows Lake Recreation & Marina
August Meeting 2024 – New Programs at OEWRI
August Monthly Meeting Our next Monthly Meeting is on August 2nd, at 7:30 a.m. at the Watershed Center. Doug Neidigh will present “New Sustainability Programs at the Ozarks Environmental and Water Resources Institute at MSU.” OEWRI’s mission is to advance our scientific understanding of water resource quantity, quality, and distribution in Ozark’s watersheds and provide sustainability …
WCC fights Sericea Lespedeza at TNC’s Dunn Ranch
Watershed Conservation Corps Fights Sericea Lespedeza at Dunn Ranch Watershed Conservation Corps went to The Nature Conservancy’s Dunn Ranch to help manage the terribly invasive Sericea Lespedeza for the third season this summer. Dunn Ranch offers 3,258 acres of gorgeous and diverse prairie, some of which is remnant- meaning it has never been plowed. The property …
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Watershed Natives Plant List
Fall Plant List Wildflowers & Grasses alumroot aromatic aster brown-eyed susan common milkweed golden aster false aloe fame flower foxglove beartongue gaura indian grass lance leaf coreopsis maximillion sunflower new englad aster ohio spiderwort orange coneflower rattlesnake master roundleaf groundsel rough blazing star pale purple sunflower prairie pussytoes purple coneflower purple poppy mallow shining bluestar …
Watershed Natives Plants Floating Wetlands at Fellows Lake
Watershed Natives Staff Joins MDC and City Utilities to plant Floating Wetland at Fellows Lake Watershed Natives staff helped the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) and City Utilities plant and install floating wetlands at Fellows Lake on July 1st, 2024. Watershed Natives and MDC have been collaborating on floating wetlands for the region. The plants used in …
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Happy Fourth of July!
The Watershed Center offices will be closed on July 4th, 2024 and our July Monthly Meeting is Canceled. We’ll be back in action at the Watershed Center on Friday, July 5th, but our Monthly Meeting is canceled. We hope you have a great Fourth of July Weekend and hope to see you at our August …
Recap: June Meeting 2024
June Meeting 2024 Recap Meeting Highlights: U.S. Forest Service Award The Watershed Committee and Rachel McManus, a former crew member of the Watershed Conservation Corps, received volunteer awards from the Eastern Region of the U.S. Forest Service. Chris Stockdale noted that out of 17 national forests across 20 states, only four projects were recognized this …
Watershed Receives U.S. Forest Service Award
Watershed Awarded for Forest Service Visitor Use Monitoring Program Watershed and Rachel McManus, a past Watershed Conservation Corps crew member, were awarded volunteer awards from the Eastern Region of the U.S. Forest Service because of our work on the National Visitor Use Monitoring program! In a Region that spans 17 national forests across 20 states, …