Author Archive: Steve Schnarr

Clean Water Act 50

August 9, 2022

The Clean Water Act is 50! Let’s Make it Even Better

Presentation by Missouri Confluence Waterkeeper Rachel Bartels and Great Rivers Environmental Law Center Staff Attorney Bob Menees

Rachel Bartels and and Bob Menees of Missouri Confluence Waterkeeper share the history of the Clean Water Act.

More about this presentation →

June 14, 2022

Art and History: The Journey of a Missouri New Regionalist

Presentation by Artist Bryan Haynes

Join artist Bryan Haynes for a discussion about his works and the formation of the Missouri New Regionalism art movement.

More about this presentation →

May 17, 2022

The Day the River Turned Red: evaluating the performance of a restoration project in the Missouri River

Presentation by Research Engineer Brandon Sansom, USGS

Join USGS Research Engineer Brandon Sansom as he discusses how USGS uses dye experiments to better understand complex flow patterns in the Missouri River.

More about this presentation →

April 12, 2022

The Jackson Family’s MR340 Adventures

Claire and Steve Jackson shared their MR340 adventures on and off the river, an paddling race that spans the state of Missouri.

More about this presentation →

March 8, 2022

The Big Muddy Clean Sweep: Living on the River, for the River

Missouri River Relief’s very own Alyssa Thomas shared the story of the Big Muddy Clean Sweep for March 2022’s presentation.

More about this presentation →

February 8, 2022

Steamboat Disasters of the Lower Missouri River

Online Presentation by Historian and Author James Erwin

February 8th we were joined by author James Erwin to discuss the impressive engineering and fragile nature of steamboat travel on the Lower Missouri River.

More about this presentation →

jamesonisland

January 11, 2022

Missouri DNR Works for Healthy Rivers

Online Presentation by Kansas City Regional Director Karen Rouse and Water Protection Director Chris Wieberg, Mo. Dept. of Natural Resources

We were joined by two directors at the Mo. Dept. of Natural Resources who discussed couple of ongoing programs that the Mo. Dept. of Natural Resources is involved in that work to solve issues faced by the Missouri River and the larger Mississippi River Watershed.

More about this presentation →

Diversity of Animals

May 11, 2021

Beyond Water: Cultivating a Reverence for Big Rivers

Online Presentation by Author Dean Klinkenberg, the Mississippi Valley Traveler

Dean has made his living writing about the Mississippi River. He’s going to share with us his vision for living with reverence and resilience along our big rivers.

More about this presentation →

Drone Shot of Levee Damage

April 13, 2021

Building for the Future: The Construction of a Levee Setback on the Missouri River

Presentation by Barbara Charry, The Nature Conservancy, Chris Hamilton, Natural Resources Conservation Service and Corina Zhang, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Charry and Hamilton shared the story of the Atchison County Levee Setback, bringing together the Atchison County Levee District, The Nature Conservancy, NRCS, the Corps of Engineers and others to create more space for the flooding Missouri River by moving a levee back away from the Missouri River.

More about this presentation →

Steamboat Arabia Model

March 9, 2021

Steamboat Landscape

Presentation by amateur historian and steamboat modeler Eric Reuter

In this fascinating and in-depth presentation, Eric Reuter used hand-made scale models of Missouri River steamboats to discuss the linked history of steamboat development and environmental changes in the Missouri basin, drawing on his professional and personal interests in the links between geology, ecology, history, and land management.

More about this presentation →

Presentation Archive