Missouri Prairie Foundation invites you to a celebration of prairies on Saturday, August 17, 2024 in Columbia, Missouri at the Stoney Creek Hotel. Our keynote speaker will be Dr. Chris Barnhart, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Missouri State University. Doors open at 5 p.m. for the silent auction, drinks, and social hour, followed by dinner at 6 p.m., and subsequent presentation of awards and Dr. Barnhart’s presentation, “Conserving Prairie Royalty: The Regal Fritillary.”
Tickets are $75 each for Missouri Prairie Foundation and Grow Native! Professional members, $85 for the general public, and free for MPF Lifetime members. Tables for six will be available for purchase for $450 by MPF or Grow Native! members, and $400 for MPF Lifetime members. The deadline to register is August 8.
Registration for the 2024 Annual Dinner is now open.
If you have questions, please email info@moprairie.org.
Special thanks to in-kind sponsors Modern Litho and Bass Pro Shops®, and to silent auction donors Alpine Shop, The Clean Refill, Bluestem Missouri Crafts, Missouri Northern Pecan Growers, Handker, KC Current, Henry Domke, Switchgrass Spirits, World Bird Sanctuary, National WWI Museum and Memorial, Stoney Creek Hotels, Drury Hotels, Martha Hill, Bryce Knight, Noppadol Paothong & Monica Lee, Vernon Elsberry, Mike Leahy, Bruce Schuette, Bob & Barbara Kipfer, Steve Mowry, Doug Helmers, Stephanie Michels & Everett Stokes, and Jerod Huebner.
This event supports the mission of the 58-year-old Missouri Prairie Foundation (MPF) to protect and restore prairie and other native grassland communities through land acquisition, management, education, and research; to promote the use of native plants through its 24-year-old Grow Native! program; and to support the control of invasive plants through its administration of the Missouri Invasive Plant Council.
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