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.

Adam has over 14 years of professional experience in managing land, wildlife and cattle. He has a bachelor’s degree in rangeland management and a master’s degree in wildlife management.

The Society for Range Management is the professional scientific society and conservation organization whose members are concerned with studying, conserving, managing and sustaining the varied resources of the rangelands which comprise nearly half the land in the world.

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.

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

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.

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.

Research Interests Forest and native plant nursery propagation, outplanting, and establishment including biophysical and physiological limitations and adaptations within each system.

The Conservation Biology Institute (CBI) provides scientific expertise to support the conservation and recovery of biological diversity in its natural state through applied research, education, planning, and community service.