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…

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…

The two-day 2026 Deep Roots: Plan it Native conference was well attended by Osage Trails Master Naturalists.