2014 Presentations

Scott Mestrezat

December 9, 2014

FILM: Big Muddy Moose – The Missouri River on a Stand Up Paddleboard

Film Screening hosted by Missouri River Relief on Tuesday, December 9, 2014 at RagTag Cinema in Columbia, MO Intro (via Skype) by “Love Your Big Muddy Expedition” paddler Janet Moreland Followed by Q&A with Scott (also via Skype) This film can now be screened FREE on vimeo here – Scott Mestrezat filmed his entire journey as […]

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bag it

November 11, 2014

FILM: “Bag It – Is your life too plastic?”

Film Screening hosted by Osage Group of the Sierra Club and Missouri River Relief Original Screening – Tuesday, November 11, 2014 at RagTag Cinema in Columbia, MO Followed by panel conversation featuring Dr. Frederick Vom Saal, the UM professor that discovered the estrogen mimicking properties in some plastic additives. Jan Dye – Osage Group of the […]

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KCskylinesunrise

June 11, 2014

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

Presentation by Patricia Schuba, Labadie Environmental Organization Wednesday, June 11, 2014 Westport Coffeehouse Theater – 4010 Pennsylvania Ave. Kansas City, MO In 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 […]

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KCschopping

June 11, 2014

Show and Tell: Cleaning up the Big Muddy

Presentation by Missouri River Relief  Program Manager Steve Schnarr Original Presentation, June 11, 2014 at Big A’s Restaurant in St. Charles, Missouri Since 2001, Missouri River Relief has been organizing volunteers to clean-up the Missouri River. Nearly 20,000 volunteers that is. By working together, they’ve removed more than 1 1/2 million pounds of junk from […]

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kid canoe

June 10, 2014

Paddling into Beauty, Bend by Bend

Original Presentation by author and guide Brett Dufur, Mo. Dept. of Conservation Tuesday, June 10, 2014 Brett Dufur, editor for the Conservation Department and river guide, will discussed the unique draw of the Missouri River – what propels some ultra-marathon paddlers in the annual MR340 race, as well as those paddling in the wake of […]

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1993 Chesterfield

May 14, 2014

Mississippi River Tragedies: A Century of Unnatural Disaster

Presentation by author Christine A. Klein, J.D., LL.M., Professor at the University of Florida Levin College of Law Wednesday, May 14, 2014 American engineers have done astounding things to bend the Mississippi River and its tributaries to their will: transforming over a thousand miles of roiling current into a placid staircase of water; imprisoning the mighty flow […]

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Captain Catfish

May 14, 2014

“Going Fishing with Captain Catfish”

Presentation by Missouri River guide John “Captain Catfish” Trager Wednesday, May 14, 2014 John Trager’s catfishing boat at the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri Rivers. photo from the Captain Catfish facebook page. Westport Coffeehouse Theater – 4010 Pennsylvania Ave. Kansas City, MO     The Missouri River has lately become a destination for trophy catfish. […]

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gumbo bottoms

May 13, 2014

“Gumbo Bottoms” CD Release Celebration

Tuesday, May 13, 2014 Music by Cathy Barton and Dave Para lower floor of the Les Bourgeois Vineyards Bistro in Rocheport, MO (directions below)   Hosted by Turner Hall River Rats for the Arts “Gumbo Bottoms – a Big Muddy Musical”, is a local treasure. Local writer Meredith Ludwig took the seeds of oral histories she collected from local […]

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The Missouri River

April 9, 2014

Jameson and Cora Islands: “Where are we Now?”

Presentation by Laurie Farmer and Zach White, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Kansas City District Wednesday, April 9, 2014 In December 2006, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) began construction of a side channel chute at the Jameson Island Unit of the Big Muddy National Fish & Wildlife Refuge to re-create Shallow Water Habitat (SWH) […]

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Kansa Village

April 8, 2014

The Missouri & Kansas–Rivers of Connection & Trade

Presentation by Dr. Bill Worley, Historian and Author Wednesday, April 8, 2014 Westport Coffeehouse Theater – 4010 Pennsylvania Ave. Kansas City, MO Click here to view a video recording and transcript of this presentation. Prior to European contact, the Missouri and Kansas Rivers were the center of travel and commerce for the native groups that settled […]

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