Monarch Butterfly

Conservation Blueprint is a company that specializes in the design, establishment and management of pollinator and wildlife habitat in situations that range from solar energy projects to private landowners and all things in-between.

Mid-America Monarch Conservation Strategy is designed to facilitate cohesive, coordinated, and effective conservation actions needed to sustain the eastern population of the monarch butterfly, including restoring, enhancing, and protecting habitat, and providing information, education, and conservation engagement opportunities to interested citizens.

Hickman works in the Department’s Wildlife Diversity Program and is the Department’s Watchable Wildlife Program leader.

I work as a wildlife diversity biologist (aka nongame biologist). My training is in ornithology and bird conservation is a substantial part of my position.

The George Miksch Sutton Avian Research Center (Sutton Center) was founded in 1983 with the mission of finding cooperative conservation solutions for birds and the natural world through science and education.

The Central Hardwoods Joint Venture (CHJV) is a partnership of state, federal, and non-for-profit wildlife conservation agencies and organizations that work together to insure the long-term viability of native bird populations across the Central Hardwoods Bird Conservation Region.

EcoResource Solutions, Inc. (ERS) is a professional aquatic and terrestrial ecological consulting firm located in the Denver, Colorado area.

Grow Native! is the native plant marketing and education program of the Missouri Prairie Foundation. Grow Native! helps protect and restore biodiversity by increasing conservation awareness of native plants and their effective use in urban, suburban, and rural developed landscapes.

Ricky has over twenty years of experience starting as a research assistant, forestry consulting, and most recently with forest industry/REIT.

Gary always aspired to be a consulting forester, and in 1970 started Burns Forestry.  He received a Bachelor of Science in Forestry in 1967 from the University of New Hampshire, a Master of Science in Forestry with a wildlife emphasis in 1993 from Stephen F.