MISSOURI
Volunteer With Us! Do you want to make a difference, connect with nature and have fun? We need volunteers in Missouri who are interested in contributing time, effort and special skills to increase our ability to protect the natural heritage of Missouri. Examples of volunteer activities include: • Community outreach and education events • Seed collection on preserves • Trail maintenance • Clean-up days • Photography and videography • Tree plantings Join us and others who care for Missouri’s wild and natural places and connect with the nature we all depend on. To learn more about volunteer opportunities in Missouri visit: nature.org/ MO volunteer
Dunn Ranch Prairie © Noppadol Paothong
Natural Climate Solutions Letting nature do its work The Nature Conservancy recently teamed up with 21 institutional partners to author Natural Climate Solutions for the United States , a study that explored natural functions that could prevent or sequester up to 21 percent of annual greenhouse gas emissions in the United States. Together, these natural solutions explore a variety of strategies aimed at better managing forests, agricultural lands, grasslands and wetlands capable of storing carbon. These efforts also provide cost-efficient benefits to the communities and ecosystems on which people and wildlife rely. Major opportunities for natural solutions in Missouri include the reforestation of buffers along our streams and riverbanks, and the restoration of our grasslands. “Missouri has less than 1 percent of our native grasslands left. These prairies, which formally covered the northern third of our state, naturally sequester carbon, and we’ve lost almost all of them,” says James Cole, Director of Conservation Programs in Missouri. “Restoring the functions of a grassland landscape, like we are doing at Dunn Ranch Prairie in the Grand River Grasslands, provides a great opportunity for natural climate solutions.” Additional strategies include implementing cover crops in agricultural land to keep carbon trapped in the soil and improving forest management on public and private lands to absorb carbon pollution. Both solutions enhance the landscapes while also increasing the overall health of the land and air in surrounding areas. “What’s exciting about these solutions is that we can implement them right away. We have the solutions at our fingertips that can sequester a fifth of national greenhouse gas emissions, and TNC is actively demonstrating these techniques in our projects across the country and right here in Missouri,” says Cole.
Cleanup at Zahorsky Woods Preserve © Melissa Walthart
Connect With Us! Want to know more about what TNC is doing in Missouri? • Our free e-newsletter: nature.org/greatplaces • Facebook: facebook.com/ natureconservancymissouri • Twitter: twitter.com/ nature_mo • Instagram: Instagram.com/ nature_missouri
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