River Soundings 2025
Urban Watersheds
Wednesday, September 10
| 9:00 am | Doors open |
| 9:30 am | Mixer: Pin your Place on the Watershed
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| 10:00 am | Beyond Housing Welcome
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| 10:30 am | Introduction to Watersheds: Kelly Dunlap, City of Wentzville
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| 10:45 am | Growing Food in Urban Watersheds: Dail Chambers, Artist and Consultant; Tyrean Lewis, Heru Urban Farming |
| 12:00 pm | -Lunch- |
| 1:00 pm | History of Water in St. Louis: Amanda Clark, Missouri Historical Society
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| 2:00 pm | Urban fish/fishing: Joe Oelke, Beyond Housing; Tom Boersig, Missouri Chapter American Fisheries Association |
| 3:00 pm | Keynote Address by Zuri Carter, Deputy Chief Natural Resources Officer with Metroparks Toledo – Promises Kept: How Metroparks Toledo is Revitalizing East Toledo to Create a World Class Riverwalk |
| 5:00 pm | Dinner prepared by Chef Tiarra Adams: local foods and local artists Dail Chambers and David Hultz
Special guests Shelley Morris and Raphael Morris, Greenwood Cemetery |
Thursday, September 11
| 9:00 am | Doors open |
| 9:30 am | Urban Waters Federal Partnership: Tom Stevens, The Nature Conservancy
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| 10:00 am | Outdoor excursion to storm water structure
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| 10:30 am
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Greenwood Cemetery: Shelley Morris, Board Secretary & Historian; Raphael Morris, Board President of Greenwood Cemetery Preservation Association |
| 11:00 am | Invasive Species: Chuck Caverly, Missouri Native Stewardship Services LLC
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| 12:00 pm | -Lunch- |
| 1:00 pm | Riparian Rights in Urban Watersheds: Bob Menees, Great Rivers Environmental Law Center
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| 2:00 pm | History of River Des Peres: Amanda Clark, Missouri Historical Society
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| 3:00 pm | MSD and River Des Peres: Bruce Litzinger, Metropolitan Sewer District Project Clear
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| Wrap-up activity: Brian Waldrop, Missouri Department of Conservation Stream Teams |
Conference is hosted by the Missouri Department of Conservation Stream Teams and Beyond Housing with generous support from Greenway Network and its donors. Organized by Greenway Network, Missouri Sierra Club, Great Rivers Environmental Law Center, Missouri River Relief, Missouri Department of Natural Resources with the assistance of River City Outdoors Collaborative, Missouri Chapter American Fisheries Society, and Ozark Land Trust.