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KANSAS CITY Mo -- Volunteers on Saturday will plant native trees, shrubs and grasses along a segment of Brush Creek, bringing conservation to Kansas City’s urban core.
The “Brush Creek Oxbow Project” is coordinated by Green Works in Kansas City, a non-profit that promotes environmental justice and involves urban high school students in projects to improve the environment. Students will be among the volunteers planting greenery at the oxbow from 9 a.m. until 12 noon.
KANSAS CITY Mo -- A $10,000 grant from the Missouri Conservation Heritage Foundation is boosting an organization that introduces youths to hunting traditions.
The Missouri Hunting Heritage Federation, based in Pleasant Hill, Mo., conducts clinics and guided hunts to introduce young people ages 9 to 17 to hunting. The non-profit group recently used the grant money to purchase equipment needed to conduct clinics such as firearms training gear, trap shooting equipment and youth model firearms, plus a trailer to haul the gear to clinic sites.
Green Ridge, Mo. -- Three research biologists stood motionless, listening for one meek call among the many louder bird songs and trills wafting across a grassy field on a recent spring morning.
Levi Jaster and two assistants spend many mornings searching for Henslow’s sparrows, tiny, four-inch birds weighing less than an ounce that live reclusively in tall prairie grasses. The biologists’ experienced ears picked out the thin chirp from other sounds.
