2013 Presentations

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December 11, 2013

Prairies of the Big Muddy

Presentation by Mike Leahy, Natural Areas Coordinator for the Mo. Dept. of Conservation Wednesday, December 11, 2013 Minsky’s Pizza in the City Market – 427 Main St., Kansas City, MO Two hundred years ago around a quarter of the floodplain of the Missouri River was covered by waving grasses, sedges, rushes and wildflowers – a bottomland prairie community.  […]

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December 10, 2013

LEO: Bringing Together People to Protect the Big Muddy, Floodplains and Drinking Water

Presentation by Patricia Schuba, Labadie Environmental Organization Tuesday, December 10, 2013 in Rocheport, MO n the fall of 2009, the topic of a proposed coal ash landfill  in the Missouri River floodplain monopolized the conversation at a local book club meeting in the small river town of Labadie, home of Ameren Missouri’s largest coal-fired power plant. […]

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The Missouri River

November 13, 2013

The History and Future of the West Bottoms

Original presentation by Darby Trotter, PhD, CEO of Kansas City River Trails, Inc. Wednesday, November 13, 2013 Click here to view a video recording of this presentation Tucked into the floodplain at the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri Rivers is an area chock full of Kansas City history. The West Bottoms was the heartbeat of […]

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1941 Bagnell Flood

November 12, 2013

Jameson Island: “Where are we Now?”

Original Presentation by Laurie Farmer and Zach White, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Kansas City District Tuesday, November 12, 2013 Click here to download pdf of presentation In December 2006, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) began construction of a side channel chute at the Jameson Island Unit to re-create Shallow Water Habitat (SWH) benefiting […]

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October 21, 2013

Damming the Osage

Presentation by authors and publishers Crystal and Leland Payton, Lens and Pen Press. The Osage River is one of two major Ozark tributaries to the Missouri River, historically serving as a river highway into southwestern Missouri for a few steamboats, logging rafts and spawning paddlefish. It’s history is deep and largely ignored, from its importance to […]

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September 11, 2013

Real flood risk in the Great Rivers State

Original Presentation by Bob Criss, PhD, Professor at Washington University Wednesday, September 11, 2013 How many so called “100-year floods” have you witnessed in your lifetime? Why are we continually surprised when floods of “unprecedented” heights hit our riverside communities? What did we learn from the Flood of 1993, 20 years ago, and what did […]

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September 11, 2013

The River Beneath the Missouri River

Presented by Hydrogeologists David Stous and Pat Higgens, Burns & McDonnell Co. Wednesday, September 11, 2013 Click here to view a video recording of this presentation In July we learned about the Missouri River as a direct source of drinking water. This month, David Stous and Pat Higgens will take a peek below the river, […]

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Labadie Plant

September 10, 2013

Building a Natural Legacy in Boone County

Original Presentation by Roger Still, Greenbelt Land Trust Tuesday, September 10, 2013 The Greenbelt Land Trust, in partnership with a long list of local partners and agencies, is developing ideas to highlight and preserve the “Natural Legacy” of Boone County. The Missouri River is of course a major connective tissue throughout the concept. Current director […]

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August 14, 2013

The Rock That Gave Birth to Kansas City

Original Presentation by Richard J. Gentile, Ph.D, Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Geosciences, University of Missouri- Kansas City Click here to view a video recording of this presentation A ledge of rock along the south bank of the Missouri River at Kansas City served as an all weather landing (or wharf) for thousands of paddle-wheeled steamboats […]

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Kansa Village

August 14, 2013

Sustainable Thus Far: A History of Habitation at the Confluence

Original Presentation by David Lobbig, Curator of Environmental Life at Missouri History Museum Wednesday, August 14, 2013 308 N Main St. –  St Charles, MO David Lobbig of the Missouri History Museum shared a look at the intersection of human history and the environment of the Missouri River at its confluence with the Mississippi River.

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