Our Partners

©Frank Oberle The Nature Conservancy of Missouri partners with and receives assistance from a number of public and private organizations across the state and country to help achieve our mission.

Blue River Glade
The Nature Conservancy of Missouri is partnered with Kansas City Power & Light; Kansas City Harmony; Jackson County Parks and Recreation; Missouri Department of Conservation; City of Kansas City, Mo., Parks & Recreation; Lakeside Nature Center; and Kansas City Zoological Gardens. It's a chance for us to come together and restore a piece of our natural heritage through a multicultural, community-based effort.

Edward K. Love Foundation
The Edward K. Love Conservation Foundation has contributed $405,000 to the Dunn Ranch project since the chapter acquired the property in 1998. The ultimate goal at Dunn Ranch is to restore a landscape-scale prairie – something that has never been done before. In the process, we are developing technologies and strategies that will have an impact far beyond the project’s borders. The Nature Conservancy is grateful to the Edward K. Love Conservation Foundation for making this important work possible and for its longtime support.

The Missouri Department of Conservation
At Dunn Ranch, Wah'Kon-Tah Prairie, in the Lower Ozarks, and elswhere The Nature Conservancy and MDC work closely to manage and restore our irreplaceable resources.

The Missouri Natural Areas Program
The Missouri Natural areas Program is focused on "...identifying, designating, managing and restoring the best remaining examples of natural communities and geological sites encompassing the full spectrum of Missouri's natural heritage". For the latest information on natural areas in Missouri, click here to access the Missouri Natural Areas Newsletter, published biannually by the Missouri Natural Areas Committee, of which The Nature Conservancy in Missouri is a partner.

The Monsanto Fund
The Monsanto Fund awarded the chapter a $335,000 grant to fund work along the Current River in the Lower Ozarks. The Lower Ozarks is a Conservancy designated Last Great Place. The inititaive includes a conservation outreach program to local landowners, the restoration of nearly vanished canestands and the replanting of bottomland forests. Read more about the spectacular beauty and ecological importance of the Lower Ozarks in here.

The New York Botanical Gardens
Lichens of the Ozarks - Floristics and Implications for Biodiversity Conservation is a joint project of The New York Botanical Gardens and The Nature Conservancy.