Missouri Paddling Coalition

Central Regional Office MDC 3500 E Gans Rd, Columbia, MO

The next MOPadCo meeting will be March 2 at MDC's Central Regional Office in Columbia. Discuss future paddling events, training, paddling access improvements, and more. We'll start with a social at 12:00 noon, then the meeting runs 1:00-4:00PM. Brown bag lunches welcome! For planning purposes, RSVP at the Facebook Event page- https://www.facebook.com/events/640869351803561/ Enter each of […]

Big Muddy Speaker Series March 2025

Bike Stop Cafe 701 S. Riverside Dr, Saint Charles, MO

Missouri River Relief’s Big Muddy Speaker Series, hosted by Greenway Network 7 p.m. presentation (6 p.m. social hour) at Bike Stop Cafe, 701 S Riverside Drive, St. Charles, MO 63301 What's Your Watershed? by Libby Reuter and Virginia Woulfe-Beile Since 2011, Watershed Cairns artists Libby Reuter and Joshua Rowan have been asking "What's your watershed?" […]

Hillsdale Clean-ups

Greenwood Cemetery 6571 St Louis Ave, St. Louis, MO

Join us with Beyond Housing and MDC Stream Team to help revitalize areas of Hillsdale to remedy the effects of illegal dumping throughout their community. Volunteers will meet at Greenwood Cemetery for a safety meeting then choose from a few options. You can work in the cemetery removing invasive bush honeysuckle, pulling weeds within the […]

2025 Team Leader Academy – Scouting & Cleanup POSTPONED

The March 22 Scouting Seminar and Capstone Cleanup is POSTPONED Our team was hit hard by the storms last Friday. In order to give them time to address urgent matters, the Team Leader Academy Scouting and Cleanup event, scheduled for March 22, is postponed. We have not yet determined the new date but will let […]

Mission: Clean Stream on Saturday, April 5, 2025!

The May 10th clean up in Wright CIty has been postponed.  Check back for updated information. Join hundreds of volunteers to work together to pick up tons of litter along our rivers and streams. Greenway Network partners with eight municipalities to host cleanup sites. Follow one of the links below to sign up for the […]

Big Muddy Speaker Series April 2025

Bike Stop Cafe 701 S. Riverside Dr, Saint Charles, MO

Missouri River Relief’s Big Muddy Speaker Series, hosted by Greenway Network 7 p.m. Presentation (6 p.m. Social Hour) at Bike Stop Cafe, 701 S Riverside Drive, St. Charles, MO 63301 "Life on the Mississippi before 1492: from Clovis to Cahokia to Contact" by Julie Zimmerman, PhD, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Dr. Julie Zimmerman will present […]

St. Peters Clean Streams (cross-post)

Courtesy cross-post: The City of St. Peters organizes an annual community volunteer event to clean our streams of debris for healthier streams. Trash can harm habitat and wildlife, plus cause creek bank erosion and possibly flooding. The 2025 Spring Event will be Saturday, April 12 at 370 Lakeside Park's Corporate Pavilion. Register here by April […]

Mission: Clean Stream – April 12 for St. Charles City

If you missed one of the April 5th Mission: Clean Stream events throughout the county, or just want to help even more, you have another chance to volunteer with the City of St. Charles' cleanup on Saturday, April 12. Volunteers, ages 6 and up, can register as a family, individual, or organization. Gloves, waste collection […]

Missouri Paddling Coalition

Bimonthly meeting of the MOPadCo will take place Sunday, May 4 at the Columbia Bottom Conservation Area's visitor center. Enjoy a potluck getting to know the paddling community at noon. Bring a dish to share and your own table service, then the meeting will be at 1:00. Come learn more about this statewide organization and […]

Rockwood Island USFW Refuge Tree Planting

U.S. Fish and Wildlife (USFW) is reaching out to multiple organizations seeking volunteers to help plant some of the 22,000 tree seedlings acquired for the Rockwood Island Wildlife Refuge. Their goal is to diversify the species composition of the refuge from monotypic cottonwood to a 15 species-rich bottomland forest typical of the region to better serve […]