The Road to Conservation Starts at Home!
Text Box: years working on his mission. There will be a cable television show on the Discovery Channel next year about Chad and his work. Text Box: 587 people registered for the MASWCD Training Conference recently held at Tan-Tar-A Resort. This represented 101 of Missouri’s 114 Soil and Water Conservation Districts. To look at the numbers more in depth, of those registered, 137 were Soil and Water Board members representing 71 Districts. The Training Conference this year provided a great opportunity for 8 agencies and organizations involved with SWCD’s to get together and discuss what is working and what is not. Text Box: There were workshops every day for Board members, employees and partner agencies and organizations to help each understand their role in the partnership better and gain some specific training for their jobs. Tuesday evening the speaker at the banquet was Chad Pregracke. Chad, who founded the “Living Lands and Waters” foundation, talked about his mission to clean up trash from the major rivers including the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers. He has spent the last ten Text Box: Training Conference Text Box: Envirothon Scholarship Text Box: Text Box: The Missouri Envirothon Committee started a scholarship in honor of Mary Burt, the District Manager of the St. Charles County SWCD who recently passed away. Mary was involved in getting Envirothon started in Missouri and was very Text Box: involved both at the state and national level in the competitions until her health limited her involvement. To date over $1200 has been donated toward the scholarship. For more information or to donate to the scholarship, please contact Peggy Lemons 573-893-5188.

Missouri Association of Soil & Water Conservation Districts

January 2010

Volume 3, Issue 1

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The MASWCD Education Seminar will be held in March 2010, exact date not finalized yet.  Please plan to attend this year as we will be supporting legislation that will allow Missouri SWCD’s to participate in the LAGERS retirement system.

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   Upcoming Events

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January 7-8, 2010

NACD North Central Regional Meeting

Chicago, Illinois

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January 12, 2010

MASWCD Board Meeting

Jefferson City, Missouri

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January 13, 2010

Commission Meeting

DNR Conference Center

Jefferson City, Missouri

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Jan 31-February 3, 2010 NACD National Meeting

Orlando, Florida