With support from the Richard King Mellon Foundation and local conservation partners, The Fund has safeguarded 1,800 acres across Nebraska, protecting the fertile soils and heritage areas that define America’s heartland.
For many of us whose water comes from America’s rivers, what happens “upstream” is critical. It determines the quality of our water and how much water we have now and in the future. For many Midwest residents, “upstream” is the Missouri River in Nebraska. The nation’s longest, it travels over 2,300 miles from Montana to join the Mississippi River near St. Louis.
We have joined forces with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as part of the Missouri River Fish and Wildlife Recovery Program. Together, we are working to protect 2,400 acres along six miles of the river.
The Missouri is not just important for people. Ecologically, the river’s non-vegetated sandbars provide nesting habitat for the endangered least tern and threatened piping plover shorebirds, and backwater sloughs allow the endangered pallid sturgeon to spawn.
Click here to read the November 2009 news release about this project.
We assisted The Richard King Mellon Foundation in acquiring 400 acres along the Missouri River to preserve an important segment of the Lewis and Clark Historic Trail. This gift, an addition to Ponca State Park, includes more than a mile of frontage on the river and bluffs containing upland game and expansive vistas of the Missouri River Valley. The addition secures important waterfowl habitat and invites canoeists and anglers.
At the Fund we help save wild havens: large, natural spaces for wildlife to be exactly that—wild. Your gift ensures that wildlife, like this bear cub, has the habitat it needs to thrive.
Peg Kohring, director of the Fund's work in the Midwest, is based in Michigan. She works with community leaders across the region. "We’re the tools in the hands of communities, helping to make conservation happen.”
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