Greenway Network’s annual conference River Soundings will once again be hosted by the Missouri Department of Conservation at Powder Valley Conservation area. The theme for this year is Big Rivers and Communities. You can register for the conference at https://greenwaynetwork.org/river-soundings
River Soundings 2024: Communities and Big Rivers
Wednesday September 4
| 8:30 am | Doors open |
| 9:00 am | River Town: Taking Listeners to Missouri River communities. Tina Cassagrande Foss, The New Territory |
| 10:00 am | Strong Towns Dean Klinkenberg |
| 10:55 am | Break |
| 11:05 am | Mississippi River Water Trails and the US Army Corps or Engineers: A Public Private partnership |
| 12:00 pm | Lunch Break |
| 1:00 pm | Creating Communities and Opportunities. Chris Kennedy and Rebecca O’Hearn Missouri Department of Conservation |
| 2:00 pm | Reaching the Students. Stories from Conservation Education Kelly Dunlap, City of Wentzville, Chris Gedden, River City Outdoors |
| 2:55 pm | Break |
| 3:05 pm
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Solid Waste Management Solutions and Opportunities |
| 3:35 pm | Communities of Practice in Big River Fish Conservations (Tom Boersi, Missouri Chapter American Fisheries Society and Caroline Pufalt, Sierra Club) |
| 4:00 pm | Keynote Address: Betsy Damon |
| 5:30 pm | Happy Hour/Dinner Emmeneggar Park by Opossum Woods. On the banks of the Meramec |
Thursday September 5
| 8:30 am | Doors open |
| 9:00 am | Great Rivers Law Panel discussion Bob Menees, Great Rivers Law, Kelly Hunter Foster, Waterkeeper Alliance |
| 10:25 am | Break |
| 10:35 am
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MDC Resources Round Table Joe Oelke and Jack McDonnell, Beyond Housing. Mark Grueber, Evan Parker, Erin Shank, Miranda Wilkinson, Amy Wilkinson, Rebecca Rodriguez, Mary Fuller, Anna Cook, Brian Waldrop, John Schulte, Josh Schulte and Aisha Muhammad; Missouri Department of Conservation. |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm | Urban Farming, O’Fallon Land Trust Eric Gramlich, Ozark Land Trust |
| 2:30 pm | Urban Farms in North County |
| 3:30 pm | Shout Out Session. (2-5 minutes to bring up issues or highlight organizations) |
The Streams Unit of the Missouri Department of Conservation Presents Greenway Network’s River Soundings. With Missouri Sierra Club, Great Rivers Environmental Law Center, Missouri River Relief, Missouri Department of Natural Resources with the support of River City Outdoors Collaborative, Missouri Chapter American Fisheries Society and Ozark Land Trust.