Your Environment, Your Future
Missouri: Dardenne Creek
Watershed Planning and On-the-Ground Implementation Improve Water Quality in Creek
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Who Are We?
Greenway Network is a grassroots volunteer based organization. Our mission is to conserve natural resources, encourage sound management of the watersheds and protect the quality of life for the residents of the greater St. Louis area.
What activities were we involved with in 2011?
Mission: Clean Stream marshaled over 1000 volunteers to collect over 25,000 lbs of trash from area St. Charles County streams in April 2nd.
Dardenne Creek Monitoring Day: monitored 19 Dardenne Creek sites in May and October and sent the water quality data to Missouri Stream Team and World Wide Monitoring Day.
Greenway Board members mentored Stream Team members through out the year.
Barat Academy Students assisted in various clean up projects, tree plantings, invasive species plant removal, and site monitoring every Wednesday during the school year.
Greenway Board Members assisted in teaching elementary and middle school students about water quality and monitoring.
Greenway Board Members participated in various Earth Day activities at the GM Plant in Wentzville, in St. Charles and in Forest Park.
Received 319 Department of Natural Resources Grant to develop a watershed management plan for Watkins Creek in St. Louis County.
The Race for the Rivers Festival, August 27th brought a crowd to the St. Charles Riverfront to enjoy great music, food, educational booths and Trailnet partnered with us by co-sponsoring the Ride for the Rivers on the Katy Trail. The actual Canoe/Kayak Race was postponed until October 8th. You can sign up for next year at www.racefortherivers.org.
Greg Poleski, Greenway board member organized participation in the Great Rivers National Public Lands Day, a nationwide public service day on September 24th. We planted 2000 native prairie wetland plants and cleaned up trash and removed invasive species around the Cora Island Refuge and Great Rivers Greenways West Alton trail.
River Soundings Speaker Series was held at Forest Park on November 18th & 19th. Speakers included: Wayne Nelson of US Fish & Wildlife, Tom Bell of US F&W, Steve Schnarr of Missouri River Relief, Rob Koening of the St. Louis Beacon, Judd Knuevean of the US Corps of Engineers, Danny Brown of MDC, Dr. Patricia Hagen, Director Audubon Center of Riverlands, R. Michael Bush author of Riverkeeper, Brad Walker of the Missouri Coalition for the Environment, Robert Criss PhD, Washington University Dept of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Bill Lambrecht, Washington Bureau Chief of the St. Louis Post Dispatch and Ben Griffin of River Kids.
Received a Wal-mart Community Grant and planted several hundred trees, bushes and shrubs to improve the riparian habitat of the stream that flows through Progress park in Wentzville on Decdember 3.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~River Soundings 2011
November 18 and 19, 2011
Forest Park Visitors Center
Education Lab
St. Louis, Missouri
Greenway Network hosted a watershed management conference, River Soundings 2011, to bring together citizens, government agencies, conservation groups and stakeholders with a common interest in our nation’s rivers. Greenway Network helped organize a similar conference after the historic floods of 1993 and we believed it was time to look at the successes and failures of the past decades, reviewed current river management policies and heard about new opportunities for the conservation of our rivers. The Missouri River was the focal point for River Soundings 2011.
The conference consisted of nationally known speakers and regional conservation leaders who discussed flood control, conservation, transportation, and recreation on our rivers. We learned about conservation projects on our rivers and heard new ideas for sound river management policies at River Soundings, 2011. See the attached agenda for more information. This conference was free of charge thanks to Greenway Network and the Sierra Club support, but donations are appreciated.
Our next Board meeting will be at our office at 215 Indacom Drive, St. Peters, MO 63376.
All members are invited to attend.
- ***Greenway Network Board Member's meeting
- LaBarque Creek Watershed, Lum Miller Hollow - Glade Restoration
- Rainwater Harvesting Seminar
Who are we?
The Greenway Network is a grassroots, volunteer-based organization whose mission is to conserve natural resources, encourage sound management of the area's watersheds and protect the quality of life for all citizens.
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