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Title: A Million Reasons for Celebration
Description: Flint Hills Legacy Conservation Area is comprised of about 1.1 million acres with some of the nation's last tallgrass prairie. "The Flint Hills project uses voluntary, perpetual conservation easements that pay ranchers not to subdivide or commercially develop the land while allowing them to continue grazing their cattle and haying on the lush prairie that underlies the state's agricultural heritage." Mike Beam, senior vice president for the Kansas Livestock Association, remarked, "These Flint Hills are very significant from a cultural aspect, also from an ecological aspect. And from the cattle industry viewpoint, it has ... economic significance."
Date: 2010-11-13
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: For One State Agency, Cash Flow Never Stops
Description: In-depth look at Missouri's Conservation Department and its revenue from taxes. The articles include charts and highlights of the conservation programs and projects.
Date: 2004-09-26
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Mountain Lions in Missouri: Fact or Fiction
Description: Discussion of moutain lions reported as seen in Missouri. Article shows comparison to bobcats in appearance and mountain lion tracks with dog tracks. Includes map of Missouri with 'Confirmed Instances of Mountain Lions in Missouri."
Date: 2006-06-01
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Wild Things in the City: Discovery Center Reveals Nature to Urbanites
Description: The Anita B. Gorman Conservation Discovery Center, at 48th and Troost, provides city dwellers with a taste of nature. Nine acres of land provide examples of different eco-systems while the classrooms in the "green" building that forms the hub of the Center teach various topics related to conservation and interaction with nature.
Date: 2006-09-01
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Whose Forest Is This?: Hillfolk, Industrialists, and Government in the Ozarks
Description: Discussion of the efforts and controversy over conservation in the Ozarks. Mention of John B. White's company Missouri Lumber and Mining Company in Grandin and White's role as advocate of conservation, albeit not practicing what he preached. (pp. 23-24 and photo of the Missouri Lumber and Mining Company Sawmill in Grandin).
Date: 2006-10-01
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Missouri's Unique Conservation Legacy
Description: Article celebrates the 75th anniversary of the Missouri Department of Conservation and its beginnings as a citizen-led conservation movement. Several of the agency's programs, initiatives, and partnerships are highlighted.
Date: 2011-11
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Be Bear Wise in Missouri
Description: Bears, once common in most of Missouri, were almost extinct in the State, but the population of black bears (Ursus americanus), is slowly increasing. "Somewhere between 300 and 500 bears are scattered over a wide area of southern Missouri." The article also gives advice on what to do when encountering a bear and not to feed it or leave food around that they can get to. "Bears are smart and learn fast."
Date: 2008-01
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Lighting a Fire for Prairie
Description: Article describes the mission and history of the Missouri Prairie Foundation. The organization was founded in 1966 by a small group of Missourians alarmed by the loss of tallgrass prairie in the state. Over the last four decades, the Foundation has worked to acquire and protect prairie land, as well as maintain a high level of biodiversity.
Date: 2011-09
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Where the Buffalo Roam
Description: Brief article describing the importance of Charles Jesse "Buffalo" Jones to the preservation of the American bison. Jones, one of the founders of Garden City, Kansas, experimented with breeding cattle/bison hybrids, which he called "cattalo."
Date: 2006-09-01
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: The Ozarks in Missouri History
Description: Brief article on the history of the Ozarks region of Missouri. Beginning with the term "Ozark," the author traces the ways in which geologists, writers, journalists, and historians have explored this "vernacular region." Until the mid-20th century, southern Missouri had largely been overlooked in the narrative of the state's history, and was often characterized and defined by cultural stereotypes. An emphasis on collection-building and establishing new research centers in recent decades has created access to and encouraged the use of numerous collections concerning the history of the Ozarks in a wide range of topics.
Date: 2013-07
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: SC95 John Barber White Papers Finding Aid
Description: Born on December 8, 1847, successful lumberman John Barber White moved from New York to Missouri in 1879 to help organize the Missouri Lumber & Mining Company, headquartered in Kansas City. He worked nationally to increase conservation measures in the lumber industry. Outside of business, he was an avid genealogist and president of the Missouri Valley Historical Society from 1912 until his death on January 5, 1923. His vast personal genealogical library was donated to the Kansas City Public Library in 1933. The John Barber White Papers include materials relating to the genealogy of the White family and the genealogy collection owned by White; the lumber industry and conservation; Mrs. White's family, the Walkers; and the White's children, charitable giving, volunteer work, and social life. The collection includes correspondence, genealogical notes, pamphlets, photographs, postcards, scrapbooks of newspaper and magazine clippings, resolutions in memoriam, programs, speeches and statements, and the original catalog of his genealogical collection.
Date: 1896/1929
Object Type: Finding Aid

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