Pictured: Sarah Willey.
Sarah Willey is this week’s guest on Environmental Echo. Willey is involved with local environmental and activists groups, such as the Sierra Club, Great Rivers Environmental Law Center, and MOmentum: Missouri Moving Forward.
Don Corrigan interviews Willey about her thoughts and opinions involving the EPA and climate change, the current political landscape, and 2017 becoming the “year of the march.”
Continue below to hear the podcast interview.
Kudos to 1,000 Businesses For Climate Change Action; Daggers to Rex Tillerson and the War Against the EPA
Don Corrigan serves up his weekly opinion about who deserves a dagger for being a foe to the environment and who deserves a daisy for being a friend of the environment.
This week: IKEA and Rex Tillerson
All photos courtesy St. Louis County Library.
The St. Louis County Library seminar series “Science in St. Louis” is connecting scientists with the local community. The informal science talks give local communities the chance to personally interact with scientists working in the St. Louis area.
The seminars are free and open to the public. Attendees can expect to learn about a variety of topics, such as how new drugs are designed, the real CSI: science of forensics, how 3D printers help amputees and even the science of Missouri caves.
Stacey Lewis, the St. Louis County Library Adult Programming Manager, shares insights into the popular program with Environmental Echo. Continue below to hear the podcast phone interview.
Pope Supports Science On Global Warming Effects; Bannon Tries To Undermine Pope Francis On Climate
Don Corrigan serves up his weekly opinion about who deserves a dagger for being a foe to the environment and who deserves a daisy for being a friend of the environment.
This week: The Pope and Steve Bannon
MDC is in its third year of a five-year tagging project to help monitor paddlefish numbers and improve species management. Department staff are placing metal jaw tags on up to 6,000 paddlefish netted in Lake of the Ozarks, Truman Lake, and Table Rock Lake and up to 1,000 netted from the Mississippi River. Photo by MDC Staff, courtesy Missouri Department of Conservation.
Missouri’s annual spring paddlefish snagging season starts soon! The season is a popular pastime for thousands of anglers in the state. The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) is in its third year of a five-year tagging project to help monitor paddlefish numbers and improve species management. If you head out to Missouri lakes to enjoy the spring paddlefish season, don’t forget to help out by reporting tagged paddlefish and to NOT remove tags from undersized or released paddlefish.
The state’s major paddlefish snagging waters include Lake of the Ozarks, Truman Lake, and Table Rock Lake, according to the MDC. The paddlefish snagging season for these and most other waters in the state runs March 15 through April 30. The season for the Mississippi River is March 15 through May 15 with a fall season of Sept. 15 through Dec. 15. (Read more from the MDC’s press release below.)
Saint Louis Art Museum at Forest Park. Photo by Holly Shanks.
Forest Park Forever released its 2016 Year In Review report. This iconic park has been on the forefront of history in St. Louis since it opened to the public in June of 1876. From the 1904 World’s Fair to celebrating at Fair Saint Louis, generations of local families and visitors from around the world, have enjoyed, experienced, and continue to be excited about Forest Park.
Take a few minutes and read about the restoration efforts, programs and progress that have been underway to continue to make Forest Park an inclusive treasure of St. Louis.
Photo by MDC Staff, courtesy Missouri Department of Conservation.
The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) reports Riley Nolan of Fenton became the recent record-breaking angler in Missouri when he gigged a gizzard shad on the Big River in Jefferson County.
“Believe it or not, that shad was the only fish my dad and I got that evening,” he said.
See more of the MDC story below.
Picture courtesy James Kramper, National Weather Service.
Missourians are urged to participate in this year’s Severe Weather Awareness Week coming up March 6 -10, and the statewide tornado drill on Tues., March 7, at 10 a.m., to be prepared for the deadly hazards posed by tornadoes, severe thunderstorms, flooding and lightning.
Big Loss: Senate Kills Stream Protection Act;
Local Win: Beyond Coal Battles Utility Hikes
Don Corrigan serves up his weekly opinion about who deserves a dagger for being a foe to the environment and who deserves a daisy for being a friend of the environment.
This week: Congress and the Sierra Club
Great opportunity for industrial business owners! Small and medium-sized industrial facilities can apply for free energy, productivity, and waste assessments through the Midwest Industrial Assessment Center (Midwest IAC) at the University of Missouri – Columbia.
Below is more from a notice from the Missouri Department of Economic Development.
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