Rain Barrel Information
http://www.brwa.net/
The purpose of Blue River Watershed Association (BRWA) is to improve the quality of the Blue River, its tributaries, and nearby streams through education and the development of community partnerships. To achieve this goal, BRWA sponsors several events and programs in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area. BRWA encourages students and other citizens to protect their local watershed.
www.bridgingthegap.org
Bridging The Gap is a not-for-profit organization that encourages local and global awareness of our interconnectedness and develops this understanding through community education and action. Bridging The Gap fosters interconnectedness and helps citizens, businesses and government understand the impact of our decisions and behavior on our present and future community and world.
www.burroughs.org
General Meetings:
Burroughs meets on the first THURSDAY of each month, September through June (with the exception of April's Annual Dinner), at the Anita B. Gorman Conservation Discovery Center. Please see the general meetings page for more details! Refreshments and networking: 6:30 p.m.; Program: 7:00 p.m. Guests are always welcome!
Stay Connected!
Keep informed about our latest field trips, events and activities, as well as birding-related news, by subscribing to our group email list, BurroughsAnnounce. Click here to enroll. Leave the subject line and body of the email blank.
http://www.lakesidenaturecenter.org/folnc.html
The not-for-profit Friends organization has over 100 active volunteers who provide hands-on support for wildlife rehabilitation, education, and conservation activities. FOLNC volunteers provide support in fundraising, special events, publishing a newsletter, and helping with other daily activities.
Volunteers interested in wildlife rehabilitation spend 30 hours with a mentor and attend classes to learn to work with wild animals. Members pay annual dues and receive a newsletter. Call the Center at 816.513.8960, or email folnc@crn.org, to see how you can become a FOLNC member.
Short on time? You can become an auxiliary member and help with special events, conservation work days, and during special projects. Call the Center to see what opportunities are available for you.
www.allspecies.org
The Heartland All Species Project mission is to encourage neighborhood communities to addresses the environmental crisis through a broad range of programs including teens producing food, Saturday market, educational festivals, energy saving classes, film discussion series and more.
We involve kids and grown-ups in creating models of social, economic and environmental sustainability through hands-on environmental education and action.
www.kccg.org
Kansas City Community Gardens (KCCG) is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the quality of life of low-income households and other members of the community by helping them grow their own nutritious fruits and vegetables. KCCG member gardeners develop self-reliance, knowledge about nutrition, and an appreciation for the environment, while enjoying exercise, social interaction and the satisfaction of growing their own food.
KCCG operates two community gardening sites. Our main garden is located at 6917 Kensington, on the southwest side of Swope Park. Our administrative offices are located there. The second location is the Beanstalk Children's garden, near Swope Park.
Since 2002, KCCG also has operated an auxiliary location at 14th and Indiana. Commonly known at the "Freeway Garden" because it can be seen from I-70 at the Benton Curve, this location plus our Swope Park community garden site have provided gardeners with fantastic crop yields. Reservations for both sites fill up fast, illustrating the need and interest among our community gardeners!
www.kcwildlands.org
WildLands is a coalition of resource professionals, private conservation organizations and conservation minded citizens established to restore and manage the remnants of Kansas City's original landscape.
Relatively undisturbed prairie, glade, savanna and forest natural communities still exist on public lands in the metro area, but they need our help. Over time, many such communities have been overtaken by trees and brush, invaded by exotic plants and deprived of the natural processes that maintained them. In addition to a lack of management, these natural communities also suffer from a lack of recognition and appreciation by the urban public. An equally important dual goal of the WildLands coalition is to involve the citizens of the metro community in the care of these lands that represent Kansas City's natural heritage.
www.streamlink.org
StreamLink began in 1998 as a pilot volunteer water quality monitoring project for schools in the Kansas (Kaw) River Valley. It is a community-based water resource literacy program focused on creating and sharing outdoor watershed studies and explorations.
StreamLink became a statewide program in 2000 and now provides services to both individual water study groups as well as over 30 Affiliating Programs. Volunteer support and individual donations help over 4,000 students take part annually.
www.kvha.org
The Kaw Valley Heritage Alliance (KVHA) represents a diverse group of citizens and partners united by their common watershed interests. KVHA is built around the philosophy that quality of life and economic health are dependent on the ecologically responsible, economically viable, and socially acceptable use of resources. The foundation of the organization is respecting and finding common ground with divergent conservation approaches and philosophies in order to strengthen broader efforts.
http://extension.missouri.edu/gkcmg/
The primary purpose of the University Extension is to serve Missouri by reaching out and extending research-based knowledge and problem-solving resources of the University of Missouri system to people throughout the state. The Master Gardeners of Greater Kansas City Program is an informal, but important liaison between the University of Missouri Extension and the general public, by helping to implement Extension services. In the metropolitan Kansas City area the University Extension includes a large and diverse urban, suburban, and rural area that encompasses the five Missouri counties of Jackson, Clay, Platte, Ray and Cass.
The Master Gardeners of Greater Kansas City Hotline is open to answer all of your gardening questions from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday from March 1st to October 31st.
The Master Gardeners of Greater Kansas City answer the communities specific home gardening questions on their telephone hotline number 816-833-8733. The hotline is open from 9a.m. to 3p.m., Monday thru Friday, March thru October. The hotline is answered from the Blue Springs Extension office (1501 NW Jefferson) Monday, Wednesday, and Friday; and from the Northland office (NE 48th and Vivion Road - Clay County Courthouse annex) on Tuesday and Thursdays. Although this is mainly a telephone service, the Master Gardeners will also identify plant problems from samples brought to the office. The public may bring in unusual plant problems and soil samples, which will be sent to the University of Missouri for analysis at a small fee. Master Gardeners who have a wealth of personal gardening knowledge and a 50-hour course taught by the University of Missouri Extension Horticulture department, answer the hotline.
Area Master Gardeners:
K-State Research and Extension Office, Master Gardeners
Johnson County:
13480 South Arapaho Drive, Olathe, KS 66062, call 913-764-6300, for more information and programs.
Wyandotte County: 9400 State Avenue, Kansas City, KS, call 913-299-9300, for more information and programs.
Leavenworth County: 500 Eisenhower Road, Suite 103, Leavenworth, KS 66048, call 913-250-2300, for more information and programs.
Douglas: 2110 Harper, Douglas County Fair Grounds, Lawrence, KS 66046, call 785-843-7058 for more information and programs.
Platte County: Phone 816-270-2141 for more information and programs.
http://www.mostreamteam.org/1stpage.asp
The state of Missouri is rich in water resources, with over 56,000 miles of free flowing streams. The waterways of Missouri are beneficial to all living and breathing inhabitants of the state, and indirectly beneficial to the nation as a whole.
Missouri Stream Teams strive to assist in the proper management of these waterways. The Missouri Stream Team program is a program that organizes concerned citizens to address stream problems. Stream Teams tackle stream problems at the local level. Collectively, Stream Team members learn to monitor water quality on a geographic scale far beyond what government agencies can do. They also work to plant trees, stabilize stream banks, and improve fish and wildlife habitats in or near streams. Homeowners, students, landowners, and businesses to name a few are examples of the cross section of society that Stream Teams hope to continue to enlist in their efforts to conserve Missouri's greatest natural assets. Each Stream Team attempts to bring together public and private resources to reach the goals of the programs.
www.monarchwatch.org
Monarch Watch is an educational outreach program based at the University of Kansas that engages citizen scientists in large-scale research projects. This program produces real data that relate to a serious conservation issue.
Monarch Watch involves children of all ages in science. Our website provides a wealth of information on the biology and conservation of Monarch butterflies and many children use it as a resource for science fair projects or reports. Additionally, we encourage children to showcase their research or school projects on our website and we involve them in real science with the tagging program.
Since its inception in 1992, Monarch Watch has evolved into an electronically-based program with an award-winning website, an active e-mail discussion list, and a growing online community forum. The program involves more than 2,000 schools, nature centers, and other organizations in the United States and Canada, and we estimate 100,000+ students and adults participate in tagging activities each fall.
www.riverkeepers.org
River Keepers is a non-profit organization established in 1990 to protect and preserve the integrity and natural environment of the Red River of the North in the Fargo, ND - Moorhead, MN area. In addition, River Keepers is interested in the recreation and sustainable development uses of the Red River.
River Keepers promotes a renewed vision for the Red River of the North through workshops, youth service-learning projects and advocacy. The primary goal of River Keepers is to demonstrate to the public that the Red River is an underutilized resource. River Keepers works "hand-in hand" with civic, corporate and political leaders, local watershed groups and the public at-large.
http://missouri.sierraclub.org/thb/
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