The Nature Conservancy in Missouri

Patch-burn grazing working group meeting; field tour at Taberville Prairie, near Taberville, Missouri. Steve Clubine (Missouri Dept. of Conservation) leading tour.

The Nature Conservancy of Missouri partners with and receives assistance from a number of public and private organizations across the state and country to help achieve our mission.

Kansas City Wildlands

The Nature Conservancy in Missouri is part of Kansas City Wildlands, a coalition that includes Kansas City Power & Light; Kansas City Harmony; Jackson County Parks and Recreation; Missouri Department of Conservation; City of Kansas City, MO, Parks & Recreation; Lakeside Nature Center; and Kansas City Zoological Gardens. The partners work together to restore and manage priority natural areas such as Blue River Glades Natural Area and reconnect citizens with their natural heritage through a multicultural, community-based effort.

U.S. Forest Service

The Nature Conservancy in Missouri is collaborating with the U.S. Forest Service on a restoration project at Mark Twain National Forest, Missouri’s only national forest. The Conservancy has a long history of working with the forest’s managers to identify, manage and monitor globally significant sites within Mark Twain.

Edward K. Love Foundation

The Edward K. Love Conservation Foundation has contributed more than $500,000 to the Conservancy, largely for its Dunn Ranch project work in northwestern Missouri and Iowa. The ultimate goal at Dunn Ranch is to restore a landscape-scale prairie — something that has never been done before. In the process, we are developing technologies and strategies that will have an impact far beyond the project's borders. The Nature Conservancy is grateful to the Edward K. Love Conservation Foundation for making this important work possible and for its longtime support.

The Missouri Department of Conservation

At Dunn Ranch, Wah'Kon-Tah Prairie, in the Current River Watershed and elsewhere, The Nature Conservancy and the Missouri Department of Conservation work closely together to manage and restore our irreplaceable natural resources.

The Missouri Natural Areas Program

The Missouri Natural Areas Program is focused on "...identifying, designating, managing and restoring the best remaining examples of natural communities and geological sites encompassing the full spectrum of Missouri's natural heritage." For the lagest information on natural areas in Missouri, read the Missouri Natural Areas Newsletter, published biannually by the Missouri Natural Areas Committee, of which The Nature Conservancy of Missouri is a partner.

The Monsanto Fund

The Monsanto Fund awarded the chapter a $335,000 grant to fund work along the Current River in the Lower Ozarks. The Lower Ozarks is a Conservancy designated Last Great Place. The Conservancy's work in the region includes a sustainable timber initiative, outreach to local landowners interested in conservation and the restoration of nearly vanished canestands and the replanting of bottomland forests. Read more about the spectacular beauty and ecological importance of the Lower Ozarks.

The New York Botanical Gardens

Lichens of the Ozarks - Floristics and Implications for Biodiversity Conservation is a joint project of The New York Botanical Gardens and The Nature Conservancy to inventory the lichens of the Ozark ecoregion and assess their relationship with global priority sites. The Ozarks is an unstudied center of lichen diversity, and the project has resulted in the discovery of several species new to science.