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And then it's flowing down and in there are Topeka Shiners. We hired Matt Nugent, he's the Eastern Ozark Fire and Stewardship Coordinator. Gardens & Conservatories - Missouri Botanical Garden Adam McLane: Wonderful. But as we come in there, we start learning about these, the stream that's there, the forest management, thats they're the fire program that can be there. It's remarkably successful and we're so, so very grateful for it. So I've had two fire whirls that I've created myself and yeah. And, and if we do that, we're kind of seen as pushy or a steam roller. Participants came from all over, including South African Kylie Paul, who had previously led an all-female fire crew in her home country. The second big property purchase in 2022 was in Jackson County, outside of Kansas City. That's great. But in the fall of 2022, the program was expanded to include St. Louis City where we're working with the city of St. Louis Forestry Department on public properties, including many city parks to remove dead, dying or hazardous trees and replace them with new trees. So that got us thinking about where else do we need that around the state. It has about a mile of Missouri River frontage, and we plan to conduct a high-quality restoration of natural habitats across the property. Well, can you tell us a little bit Kelly Martin: Yeah, I was just thinking that you know, there, there's a kind of a developing group that wants to call themselves firelighters. So very proud to be part of this organization and, and you know, really proud to be part of women's history month here with Kylie and hosting so many really great events that TNC has been hosting and super proud to be part of the 60th anniversary of The Nature Conservancy burning program as well. But in 2022, we got grant funding in March that allowed usit was from the U.S. Forest Service and their Cohesive Strategy Cross-Boundary grant kind of program. It's all up there. WebMANY thanks to Jurgensen Companies, to the Oeder Family, and for additional funding support by Stuart Weinberg, the Full Circle Foundation and these River Outfitters- Loveland Canoe and Kayak , Scenic River Canoe Excursions , RiversEdge Outfitters , Morgans Riverside Campground & Cabins , Morgan's Canoe and Outdoor Adventures. This stunning conservatory has become a symbolic image of the Missouri Botanical Garden. So thanks again to both of you and please stay safe on the fire line. And, and we want everybody at the table, we want all voices to be heard at the table. Learn more, Get a glimpse of our visitors most beloved plant collections. A community of artists, educators and scholars, the Conservatory enrolls nearly 700 students in a comprehensive array of liberal arts and professional degree programs in Composition, Music Theory and Musicology; Dance; Instrumental Studies; Jazz Studies; Keyboard Studies; Music Education/Music Therapy; Vocal Studies and Theatre. Continue I'm just really enjoying my opportunities. Invasive Snakehead Caught in Missouri | Field & Stream WebConservatories Green Living Festival: Saint Louis Zoo Presented by Ameren Missouri Saturday, July 8 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM Wednesday, February 1 - Thursday, August 31 So yeah. And, and really, truly the, the exciting piece of this for me too, is that this was probably more than likely developed by men and led by men. Adam McLane: All right. Next 5 months, check in with Kylie. Education and outreach are expected to be big components of its future, thanks in part to TNCs partnership withMissouri River Relief. So, once we took ownership of the property, we immediately opened up the gate, made the ramp open to the public. So definitely a highlight of the year. Dont fear the snake you encounter in the backyard or hiking afield, instead, understand and respect them with the Missouri Department of Conservations (MDC) free Snakes Alive program from 10 to 11 a.m. on Saturday, July 1, at the Burr Oak Woods Nature Center in Blue Springs. So excited to see that program expand, but I'm a very idealistic person. In the past we would take those to auction. And then somebody else, another former trustee that doesn't want to be on the board anymore, but said anything other than being on the board again, because just time constraints and other things. So thanks for joining us, Kylie. So we've been to Mill Creek, we've been down to Dunn Ranch. And the behaviors that can be exhibited that sometimes people don't even know that they have implicit bias or, or sexism, you know, towards women, you know, on the team. I love it when people take initiative and they see something that they could do that they don't wait to be asked. Well, they raised over $800,000 during the summer of the pandemic, so that was on top of commitments that they had already made to our five-year campaign. Hundreds of acres of forest of the Roubidoux creek watershed and it includes a cave, which is awesome. You all know that my gift will be unrestricted to the Missouri chapter because I trust you to do good things with it.. So Roubidoux Creek lays in the Gasconade River Hills subsection of the Ozark Eco Region. Kelly Martin: Yeah. For sure. And number two, if we went any higher in this podcast, it would last a lot longer than anyone would probably be willing to listen. We also see in South Africa we also went on the suppress, suppress, suppress mission where we put out every fire and fire was the big, bad guy and we had to fight it. Adam McLane: Hmm. So I've, I've seen that side of the coin as Kelly explained the analogy. So that's really interesting. And then ultimately California, I'm hoping to go out and visit Kelly at her place as well in Idaho. Well, before I move over to Kelly for that same kind of question about how she got inspired into this place, you referenced earlier and it's been sitting in my mind just wondering an answer to this, which is, it was really fun to be able to try stuff out in fire when life and property wasn't at risk. Our next highlight number five. Help Central But now it's our turn to really tell people about the other side of the coin. Were also working to fill the gap of fire management practitioners in and out of TNC, emphasizing the need to diversify the workforce. So it's this iconic flagship that we want to use to leverage grassland restoration across the state of Missouri and beyond it. We have these amazing properties that we can learn from and that others can learn from. Then listen to our podcast episode with Wes Hauser. This stunning conservatory has become a symbolic image of the Missouri Botanical Garden. So TNC lured her back to work as a burn boss on our national fire team. The property includes approximately 4,000 linear feet of perennial tributary to the Little Blue River, as well as two marsh areas that are idealcandidates for wetland enhancement. If you long to be on the stage, as an actor or a technician, you will find your home at UMKC. They're not oppressed, they're not humiliated, they're not bullied. Wednesday, February 1 - Thursday, August 31, Whitaker Music Festival: Charles Glenn Group, Victorian District, Sachs Museum, & Tower Grove House. MO These are people who recognize TNCs work and have invested in pushing it forward, even after they are gone. So thanks so much for that. Whether that's financial support, volunteer hours or just generally following our work and telling your friends that they should follow us too. And then she became one of the first gifts to the campaign in a really significant way that gave us momentum. And a few cave-adapted creepy crawlies also call the cave home. And it sounds like you have a soft place in your, your heart for your 72 Dodge. It signifies a restored web of relationships that had been broken for hundreds of years, but also this like amazing triumph resulting from Tribal efforts to maintain and rekindle the preservation of historical, cultural, traditional, and spiritual relationships for future generations. She focuses on the Bennett Springs area. Thank you for sharing that image of being in the helicopter too and seeing the sunset. Please click "Continue" to register a new user account or log in with your username and password. And if you don't have it, do you regret getting rid of it? Kelly Martin: Huh? We have received two big gifts that will play a major role in moving it forward: $150,000 from the Clayton and Odessa Lang Ofstad Foundation and $250,000 from an anonymous donor. That will become one of the cornerstones of the CCI program, offering a place where people can see conservation in action, kids can learn about restoration techniques and researchers can conduct individual studies or possibly connect to other ongoing work already underway along the river. I'm now put in this box and this is a responsibility. So I mean, back in Cape Town, we've got fynbos, which is a really special, unique floral kingdom and it's, it's a very oily shrub-like low nutrient soil. WebIn Missouri, were focused on five conservation priorities where we can change the trendline, move the needle and make Missouri a better place for people and nature. Missouri's state director, Adam McLane, also caught up with Kelly and Kylie for an inspiring episode on TNC's podcast,It's in Our Nature. Wednesday, February 1 - Thursday, August 31, Whitaker Music Festival: Charles Glenn Group. Of that $66 million, nearly $4 million will go toward work in other state and regional programs, and $62 million supports TNCs global efforts. During the next two years, The Nature Conservancy will transfer 1,500 buffalo to ITBC member tribes, including more than 800 I think, this fall. So yeah, I'm, I'm excited for the CNN piece and excited for, for TNC, for being very open and accepting of bringing in national attention you know, through this effort. And, and so, yeah, it definitely has a special place in my heart. I don't know. WebConservation Areas Search | Missouri Department of Conservation Home Conservation Areas Search Conservation Areas Search by County Nearby Distance to location Yes, I'm a qualified burn boss working for The Nature Conservancy and I'm super excited about this new role after retirement. And I always kind of pictured like these tiny little prairie bears, they would roam and get into that spot on top of the rock and wait for him to come by. In 2022, TNC began the process to build out the program. Click here for the They hosted two events and then they helped us engage with other donors who have also become really engaged in our work. I'm a dreamer, you know, a lot of stuff doesn't stick, some things do. I love that. So each year our herds on our properties have a carrying capacity, and so when we have calves, we have surplus animals. Jeremy Kilburn, 15, runs towards his grandfather, Tom Kilburn, after catching a fish in a large reservoir at Duck Creek Conservation Area on Thursday, June 18, 2023, In 2020, the first recipient of the New York AEM-Leopold Conservation Award was Sang Lee Farms of Peconic in Suffolk County, followed by Table Rock Farms MoMag Well, this property includes approximately 4,000 linear feet of perennial tributary to the Little Blue River, as well as two marsh areas that are ideal candidates for wetland enhancement. All year, we here at The Nature Conservancy in Missouri carefully track our progress, writing down the acres of land revived by prescribed fire, miles of streambank restored, partnerships built and dozens of other metrics that guide us toward our conservation goals. So it was 25 animals each. So Little Creek then passes under an old state and it used to fall like it was a big culvert, concrete culvert. I, I think a lot of that has changed now. We live in a fire-adapted biome. We have scales there where we're doing weight gain as they come in, as they come so we can get all the economic data. Areas of Study | Conservatory | University of Missouri - Kansas City And then it has this 160-acres and mile of Missouri River frontage in an incredible location near Columbia, near the institutions, educational institutions. You can't just kind of think that you're gonna come into this job. About conservation in a woodland context. Pathway It's land protect. Your weather's wild out here, I gotta say. So the, the terms matter words matter if you will. They leaned in, they didn't lean out, and they said, here we're going to each make additional commitments, and you can use that as a matching gift program of unrestricted dollars to try and encourage other people to lean in as well. So we have about 22, 23 trustees in Missouri that help really deeply. Kelly Martin: Yeah. WebThe Missouri Department of Conservation ( MDC) and the Missouri Conservation Commission were created by Article IV Sections 40-42 of the Missouri Constitution, TNC's tree removal and planting program in St. Louis. When rivers are chopped up by dams, culverts and other barriersas is the case for more than two-thirds of the world's major riversit can have devastating effects on the habitats, people and wildlife that depend on them. If it, if it was left to me to do that, because I feel like both of you have experiences that you could each write a book about - you really deep rich experiences. This property is 169 acres, located on a scenic stretch between the Missouri River and the Katy Trail. So throughout 2022, broader planning has taken place to create a vision for the CCI program, aiming to boost important research, offer nature-based solutions, and create places for the public to learn how conservation is important for both people and for the environment. We approached somebody that had been a former trustee and boy did they give us grief over our choice of phrases We have a tendency to use a bunch of acronyms and crazy explanations for what we're going to do in the next five years is going to be redundancy resilience to this, that, and in the face of X, Y, Z. So there's benefit to these projects for people and nature when designed correctly. Is this helping, do you feel like these kind of things are really helping change the dynamic? And my parents always took us up to a cabin. At current, there is no real job opportunities for women and wildland fire professionally. They made an early gift, which was remarkable. Consumer Information Your song deserves to be heard beautifully, and we'll help you train with the best the Midwest offers. Property's really neat. On May 19, a 13-inch northern snakehead, an invasive fish from East Asia, was caught in Southeastern, Missouri in the Duck Creek Conservation area. The first is the area of Shoal Creek, and these are ongoing. OK. Well, I so the, so the piece of Missouri and the Missouri training, I wanna dig in a little bit more to that and have you both kinda comment on what that experience has been like and why we did this workshop. Permanent protection of critical landscapes has been a priority of TNC from the beginning. Now it has an onsite staffer, Matt Nugent, who's overseeing the build out of facilities on the property. For more information, visit our UMKC Statement of Nondiscrimination. Kelly Martin: CNN found me you know, I don't, I don't go looking for I, I am in the media a lot. Take a look at seven conservation highlights that made an impact in Missouri and beyond in 2022. So if you are going, what is a mitigation bank and how does it work? Adam McLane: And our listeners. $106,399,920. Just really was very, very thrilling part of my job for sure. And so each one of those people making that commitment, 83 of them during the campaign, was remarkable. To review your email preferences, please visit nature.org/emailpreferences. So we recorded a podcast about this with Kelly Martin and Kylie Paul, who is the participant from South Africa. So in terms of its conservation significance, because cool things like caves and neat visuals don't always translate into conservation significance, and we're driven by that conservation significance. I unserved the world well by, by letting you take on things that seemed like a big challenge. It was just, it's a, a good classroom. It's 169 acres, and it was donated to TNC by Larry and Brenda Potterfield. When you're ready to jump-start your creative career, head to our Admissions page to find program requirements and audition information. Emerald ash borer it's a thing and it's having impact. So they participated in planning for us. Learn from the best. Ryan TREX shirts. our Members, Donors, and Volunteers. Last but not least is the Missouri River Center, as we call it. Adam McLane: Very neat. That's interesting. The question for both of you kind of my next question is what makes a good, you know, speaking of diversity and people can bring different perspectives to fire lighting. And so as I look back on 2022 and everything that's taken place over the past 12 months, I am so grateful, I'm so proud, and sometimes I'm really shocked at what a determined group of people can accomplish together. Auditions While the city's program was not new in 2022, it grew a lot. Explore Music Education and Music Therapy. It wasn't possible, but for you two. Is that I think, yeah, but I think, yeah. That makes it really, really neat and a geography that we think is really important. It's like so layered with what it does, with what those animals do when they reconnect to these communities. Well, I don't know that I'll be able to edit myself from saying firefighter throughout the rest of the questions, but I'm gonna try fire practitioner I'm on. WebA community of artists, educators and scholars, the Conservatory enrolls nearly 700 students in a comprehensive array of liberal arts and professional degree programs in So this is going to allow us to initiate our mitigation program, start to work our way through that, try and make transformative change in that system and that's going to be awesome, and we're excited about it. But I think that I look back if you can make it as a firefighter/firelighter for the first four years, we may have you for a career, but it's really those four first four years that are very, very formidable in terms of, do you really like being away from home a lot? MDC 1/1 News from the region Central By Maggie Est 06/23/2023 COLUMBIA, Mo. | So, so fire practitioners, firelighters, firefighters, it doesn't really matter to us. The property's going to be owned by TNC and operated in partnership with Missouri River Leaf. In the future, they could grow to include opportunities for humanities, art and a variety of other pursuits. It is our annual reminder of how much a group of dedicated people can accomplish in a short amount of time. I got a criminal justice degree cause I thought I was gonna work in the woods as a game warden. That was really a focus on your career in the fire field. Again, conservation significance. TNC didn't do the construction work, but it provided technical advice and that included Steve Herrington and Drew providing input on engineering plans and all that good stuff. You talked, Kelly earlier about being athletic and loving the outdoors. The They really felt like these animals were going to lead that reunion. And I couldn't help, but think about as you described that just there's very, I'm trying to think of parallel jobs within The Nature Conservancy where trust within the team mean as, as important as it is. I think you, you are both an inspiration to young girls out there and others, quite frankly, who just see challenges and barriers, but keep on with the pursuit of their dreams. So it's, it's vastly different in what we've been burning in here. But to do that, we're hosting these three 2-week sessions where diverse participants come to Missouri and spend their time assisting on live burns and doing other activities and trainings that, that get them, the checkmarks that they need in that book is that, one accurate capture of the workshop. The program started with Little Creek Farm, so it was a renovation of a house and conversion of pastures to paddock system, new cattle watering systems, a whole bunch of stuff. We're incredibly grateful for this trust in helping us move our conservation goals forward together. In December, we closed on about 270 acres adjacent to the Little Blue River after identifying the property as a top-tier candidate for our new Missouri mitigation banking initiative. I'm also curious about the differences. So that was a piece of, you know, the piece that CNN was really interested in, but more than anything, I just, I've seen how, how amazing teams can be with women, but I've also seen how oppressive the conditions, you know, can be. And that's really where I start to see teams really blossom is that people are given a voice. And I think this is an example that we hope continues piloting out and, and having impact within the fire field well beyond TNC's team. 816-235-2900. I get to stay out here. It first came to Missouri in November of 2021 in north St. Louis County with partners Beyond Housing, Forest ReLeaf of Missouri and Davey Tree Expert Company. Demonstration Gardens It's going to be even better. So I think we're getting the woman in the door in my country, but getting them into leadership is the next step. The fuel intensity and the family intensity was a lot lower than what I'm used to. In Jackson County, Missouri, so kind of over by Kansas City. Learn more, Explore our formal gardens and specialized collections. And Kylie, I noticed you were, are nodding a good bit as Kelly was talking too, so I want you a chance to weigh in. I've dreamed of this day, my entire career that I, I could work in, in practice along other women. Best drum roll sound, da da da da da. It, it really is collectively at the top leadership that says, this is important for us to be productive, competitive, safe, relevant. This funding will bring approximately $1.4 million to Missouri to allow us to coordinate three Fire Training Exchange (TREX) events over the next four years and develop a statewide analysis of fire needs that will help Missouri fire managers develop fire goals across the state that will meet ecological and social goals. Thanks for joining us today.
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