by Brooke Widmar | January 11, 2021 | Education, News
Thanks to a grant from the L-A-D Foundation, MPF organized a prairie and woodland management training opportunity Jan. 5–7, 2021 at its Stark Family Prairie in Hickory County. MPF specifically invited young people entering the field of natural resource management to...
by Brooke Widmar | December 29, 2020 | News
The Christmas Bird Count (CBC) is the longest-running community science project in the United States, started by ornithologist Frank M. Chapman, who saw the value in counting birds instead of shooting them, which had been a Christmas Day tradition in the late 1800s....
by Brooke Widmar | December 18, 2020 | Blog
By Carol Davit, MPF Executive Director On December 8, MPF Technical Advisor Jeff Cantrell led an “MPF Short-eared Owl Investigation” at the Missouri Department of Conservation’s Shawnee Trail Conservation Area in Barton County. The...
by Brooke Widmar | December 15, 2020 | News
Missouri Prairie Foundation & Grow Native! Webinars and Master Classes for the New Year Enjoy weekly online programming January through March 2021 December 15, 2020, Columbia, MO—The Missouri Prairie Foundation (MPF) and its 20-year-old Grow Native! program have...
by Brooke Widmar | December 1, 2020 | News
Prairie State Park in Barton County, MO had an interesting avian visitor last week—a young ferruginous hawk! It was first identified by Vivek Govind Kumar on November 23rd, and has been reported each day through the 29th. Thanks to eBird, Facebook groups, listservs,...
