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Greenway Network is involved in a number of environmental issues and projects in the community.

These are some of things we have done and are working on as we speak:

* Greenway Network has reorganized the Dardenne Creek Watershed Alliance.

* We assisted Missouri River Relief in obtaining a grant to help clean the Missouri River.

* We assisted the DNR in the Brush Creek Project in Pacific, MO.

* We are an affiliate of the Missouri Conservation Federation.

* We organize the St. Charles County Mission: Clean Stream.

*We sponsor Dardenne Day: Monitoring 20 sites on Dardenne Creek twice a year.

* We completed our second annual Race for the Rivers Canoe & Kayak race and Festival on the Missouri River! Next Race: September 4-5, 2010.

* We are a Missouri Stream Team (ST 463) and are organizing other Stream Teams in the area into a regional group. We have received awards from the DNR!!

* We are working on important research projects to test water quality on many of the streams in the Metro area.

*We restored a section of Peruque Creek.

* We assisted Missouri River Communities Network in conducting the Clean Stream Education Initiative training for 47 teachers and their students.

* Greenway Network is a major partner in the Confluence Greenway Project.

* We co-sponsored the Missouri Wildlife Artist Festival in St. Charles.

* We are assisting in the Grand Glaize Creek Monitoring Project in St. Louis County, Mo.

* We sponsor a Youth Advisory Board that gives students opportunities to work alongside our board and committees.

* We sponsored the Clean Water Celebration.

* We assist Stream Team is teaching their Stream Team Workshops.

* We are working with the St. Charles County Land Trust & Great Rivers Greenway District to develop the proposed Dardenne Creek Greenway.

* We perform Watershed and Water Quality Presentations to schools and organizations.

* We worked with the Natural Resource Conservation Service to help citizens of the Peruque Creek watershed develop a watershed protection plan.

* Greenway Network was a main player in developing the recently adopted Water Protection Ordinance in St. Charles County, protecting our streams.

* Assisted Costilio Elementary School develop trails and butterfly garden for their out-door classroom.

* Completed a 40-acre Natural Floodplain Park Area on the bank of the Mississippi River in Portage des Sioux. Assisted in the construction of a restroom at the trailhead in Portage.

* We assist home and land owners with environmental problems.

*We provide Conservation Education information booths at various festivals.

*We received a Missouri Department of Conservation Grant and on April 25, Nearly 1000 trees and bushes were planted in the riparian zone of Kraut Run Creek in the new Broemmelsiek County Park in St. Charles.

We are currently working on habitat restoration at the newly acquired St. Charles County Park off HWY 61 just north of Wentzille through a MDC grant.

We are also restoring habitat along the Missisippi River just north of St. Louis through an Audubon Grant.

And lots more..........We really need your support and your time, if you have it to give. Please help by joining us or renewing your Greenway Network membership. We are a 503c Non Profit organization.

We are all volunteers and no one receives a salary!