January 10, 2025

This Week's News:  Help revive white oaks in Missouri, volunteers collect acorns along the Mississippi, learn the basics of muskie fishing and fly tying, Iowa and Missouri truck stops face Clean Water Act violations, below-average runoff for the Missouri River as we start 2025, a look at Montana's 56th state park, new and old challenges for a Mississippi River Refuge, feds hope to save an endangered mussel, a plastic solution with Living Lands and Waters, and upcoming MLK Nature Walk in KC Jan. 20th, Winter Salt Week Jan. 27-31, and programs at Shoal Creek Conservation Education Center

MISSOURI
Help Revive White Oak Trees
Missouri Foresters ask for help reviving white oak trees
Columbia Missourian

Truck Stops Face Penalties for Clean Water Act Violations
Iowa and Missouri Truck Stops Face Penalties for Clean Water Act Violations
Environmental Protection

Basics of Muskie Fishing: Jan 14
Learn to tackle muskies with MDC’s Basics of Muskie Fishing class Jan 14 at Powder Valley Nature Center
MDC 

Introduction to Fly Tying: Jan 18
MDC to host introduction to fly tying workshop on January 18 at Maramec Spring Hatchery 
MDC

MLK Nature Walk
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Nature Walk (Event)
Heartland Conservation Alliance

January Programs at Shoal Creek Conservation Education Center
Kevin Badgley, MIssouri Department of Conservation: January Programs at Shoal Creek Conservation Education Center
AOL

NATIONAL
Below-average Missouri River Runoff
Below-average Missouri River Runoff extends into new year
KMALand

Montana’s 56th State Park
Montana Parks approves acquisition of Judith River Land for 56th State Park
The Livingston Enterprise

Feds Hope to Save Endangered River Mussel
Feds hope to save endangered river mussel in the Mississippi
Radio Iowa

National Mississippi River Refuge Faces New, Old Challenges
100 years after its creation, National Mississippi River Refuge faces new, old challenges
WPR.Org

Volunteers collect and plant acorns along the MIssissippi River
Along the Mississippi River, volunteers work to collect and plant acorns to save struggling forests
MINIPost

NBC The Plastic Solution
NBC The Plastic Solution
Living Lands and Water

Winter Salt Week 2025
Winter Salt Week 2025 January 27-31, 2025
Save Our Streams