Year: 2026
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Naturalists Learn Geology
On June 20th, Osage Trails Master Naturalists visited the Richard L. Sutton Museum of Geosciences located in Miller Nichols Library on the UMKC campus. Our tour of the library was hosted by James Murowchick, professor emeritus of GeoChemistry. The library has a large collection of rocks, agates, crystals, fossils and petrified wood. It includes the…
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Capstone Report: Prairie Tour an Absolute Hit
By Lindsay Hoyt (2025) The Snowball Hill Prairie tour was an absolute hit! The weather was perfect and there was so much in bloom. We had 9 participants attend. Two brothers in the group really knew their birds, which was incredibly helpful since I am more of a plant person! They were sure they spotted…
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What I Learned at the 2026 Midwest Climate Summit
As A Girl Who Grew Up in New York By Sarah Mayerhofer (2025) Earlier this month, I traveled to Cleveland, Ohio, for the 2026 Midwest Climate Summit held at Case Western Reserve University. This was my second time attending the conference. Last year, I had such a great experience in Madison, Wisconsin, so I was excited…
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MMN, MDC, and MRBO help judge the 75th GKC Science Fair
By Courtney Green (2025) The 75th Greater KC Science Fair had over 500 project submissions. This is one of the largest years since covid. They had around 300 hundred judges support the event. This year 7 MDC Staff (including Lily Davis and Courtney Green) and 3 affiliates (Tessa Poolman (MRBO) and MMN Lisa Gann and Megan…
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Showing the Blue River some love
On April 4, volunteers from many groups came together for Project Blue River Rescue, a wide-ranging cleanup along the Blue River. I pitched in with around 20 volunteers for the Lakeside Stream Team as we cleaned up east of Lakeside along a small stream that feeds into Fox Hollow Creek.
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MMN and Stream Team table at Wings Over Water event
Powell Gardens hosted a showing of the documentary, Wings Over Water on Tuesday the 24th. They invited other conservation organizations to set up displays in the lobby of the theater in Union Station. The Master Naturalist table was hosted by Kristin List (2023) and Kathy Smith (2024)The Missouri Stream Team table had the help of…
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MMN Members participate at MDC’s Partner Luncheon
By Jim Hinds (2017) On March 3, MDC brought together over 100 representatives of area conservation organizations and individuals. After an opening keynote, there were six morning and afternoon breakout sessions. In between morning sessions and lunch, six local organizations were given a chance to present information on their activities. Meredith Donaldson (2004) talked to participants about…
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Troop 220 learns about Missouri Master Naturalists
By Dawn Bené & Skip Mathews (2024) We began our presentation to Boy Scout Troop 220 in Lee’s Summit, MO, with a “Journey into Nature” which included a slide show that was enthusiastically accompanied by the Scouts playing a various array of percussion instruments to enhance the Journey. The presentation continued with an overview of…
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Winter Monitoring at Indian Creek
Story by Jim Hinds Photos by Melanie Myers, Scott Hatcher, and Shannen Cisneros On a beautiful Saturday afternoon, February 7, seven Master Naturalists went to Indian Creek at 99th & Holmes in South Kansas City to do our winter monitoring and clean up. Our usual path through a scrubby forest was now a walk through…
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Deep Roots Plan it Native Conference In Photos
The two-day 2026 Deep Roots: Plan it Native conference was well attended by Osage Trails Master Naturalists.